About the role
Location: Los Angeles, CA (onsite)
Pay: $150,000–$220,000
Type: Permanent · Full time
A consumer performance brand in the active lifestyle space is hiring a head of product to build its line, and its product team, from the ground up. It suits an engineer who moved into product. You report to the CEO, sit with a small in-office team, and own the roadmap outright.
What you'll do
- Set the roadmap against market demand, consumer insight and what the factory can actually make
- Run development from brief through tooling, sampling, validation and launch
- Work directly with an overseas manufacturing partner on materials, feasibility, cost and quality
- Write performance specs and run testing with engineering discipline
- Partner with the design and commercial leads so product, brand and go-to-market line up
- Create the stage-gate process and documentation for a new product function
What you bring
- An engineering foundation (mechanical, industrial, materials or similar), by degree or by career path
- 7–12 years across engineering and product management, with real time spent owning product
- Physical consumer products you took from concept through production and launch at scale
- Direct work with contract manufacturers or OEMs, ideally overseas: you can review a sample, read a tolerance stack and talk tooling with a manufacturing engineer
- Experience in cycling, powersports, action sports, outdoor or athletic hardgoods (digital-only product won't carry over)
- Live in or will relocate to greater Los Angeles; the role is fully onsite
Nice to have: A product whose market results you can trace to a materials or process call you made.
Mural Group is recruiting for this role on behalf of a client. Apply here and a Mural recruiter will be in touch.