Product Development & Commercialization Manager
Los Angeles, California · On-site · Full-time
- Location
- Los Angeles, California
- Work arrangement
- On-site
- Employment type
- Full-time
About the role
The Product Development and Commercialization Manager leads execution of our client's product development process from concept through launch, owning development timelines, cross-functional coordination, sample execution, product data integrity, and launch readiness. The role carries a distinct commercialization mandate: connecting product decisions to a business case by costing pieces, value-engineering to target price points, and ensuring new collections land in the commercial sweet spot across the brand's key channels.
What you'll do
- Manage end-to-end product development from concept approval through production readiness, owning development calendars, launch schedules, and milestone tracking
- Coordinate sample creation, revisions, and approvals, and manage prototype tracking and sample inventory
- Serve as day-to-day project manager across Design, CAD, Manufacturing, Production, Sales, Marketing, and Operations, leading recurring PD meetings and driving action-item accountability
- Maintain product data integrity across SKUs, attributes, collection assignments, pricing and costing, specs, and material and component data in Business Central
- Liaise with internal manufacturing and external and overseas vendors on development progress, timelines, specs, and approvals
- Own quoting, costing, and value engineering for all new product development, partnering with vendors and manufacturing to hit target price points while protecting design intent and quality standards
- Analyze selling data and build pricing frameworks that ensure new collections land in commercially viable price bands
- Build and govern systems that do not yet exist, including sample tracking, costing visibility, CAD organization and retrieval, and reporting cadence
- Contribute to the build-out of the monday.com product tracker and weekly reporting dashboard
- Collaborate with and mentor the Production Development Associate
What we're looking for
- 5 or more years in Product Development, Product Management, Merchandising, or Product Operations
- Ability to cost a piece from material and component inputs and reverse-engineer design decisions to hit a target price point
- Advanced Excel skills
- Comfortable with CAD review and vetting (not producing CAD), vendor and factory communication, and sample QA
- Experience coordinating cross-functional teams and managing project timelines in a fast-paced environment
- High ambiguity tolerance and ability to build process where little formal structure exists
- Strong taste level and ability to articulate product and design decisions clearly
Nice to have
- Background in fine jewelry; adjacent BOM-driven luxury categories such as watches, eyewear, or leather goods are also viable
- Familiarity with Business Central or a comparable ERP system
- Experience with monday.com or similar project tracking tools
What's offered
- Defined growth path toward owning the full product roadmap as the director shifts focus to marketing and brand direction
- Opportunity to build systems and processes from the ground up within a well-established brand undergoing a deliberate strategic transformation
- Small, close team with direct access to senior leadership and meaningful influence over product direction
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