Planning and Execution
Partner with Product, Engineering and Packaging teams to develop project plans, including milestones and timelines, budgets, resources.
Define project scopes, objectives, deliverables, and success criteria.
Escalate swiftly when project diverges and re-alignment is necessary.
Highlight critical paths, proactively identify risks, and develop mitigation plans when necessary.
100% ownership of high-level milestones, and total understanding of how to lead the team to the finish line.
Team leadership & coordination
Lead and mentor project teams
Assign tasks, track progress, and resolve conflicts.
Foster collaboration across departments (Product, Operations, Marketing, IT, Sales)
Stakeholder Management
Communicate between stakeholders across departments, executives, vendors to ensure that projects are achieving company-wide initiatives.
Partner with Product, Engineering and Packaging teams to ensure projects are properly resourced.
Provide regular updates (status reports, dashboards, presentations), hold cross function teams accountable for.
Able to determine priority across projects, able to discern and guide the team to accomplish higher value requests over lower impact ones
Manage risks and develop mitigation strategies and escalate issues when necessary.
Conduct post-project reviews for continuous improvement.
Recommend process improvements and best practices.
Bachelor’s Degree in Business or Engineering
10+ years of project management experience (consumer goods, electronics, or accessories preferred)
Highly confident and effective communicator (verbal and written)
Superior time management skills, ability to set and juggle priorities, react to changes with a positive and can-do attitude
Proven past track record of shipping consumer products
Comfortable working in a fast paced, start-up environment
Experience in communicating directly with factories and/or internal manufacturing teams
Ability to work with a wide variety of personalities and disciplines
Must be able to travel domestically and internationally
Launched in 2014 by former philosophy professor David Barnett, PopSockets makes empowering, fun and expressive products that help people phone better. PopSockets has sold over 230 million of its iconic phone grips in 75 countries and now has an expanding ecosystem of related products, including phone cases, wallets and mounts.
Our mission is to empower enhanced mobile functionality, self-expression, and authentic human connection. We imagine an Eternal Positivity Machine that sparks joy, creativity, and meaningful relationships. We bring this vision to life by upholding the highest standards in materials, packaging, logistics, and design—while ensuring our supply chain and labor practices remain ethical, responsible, and transparent.
In 2021, PopSockets was honored as one of Fast Company’s World's Most Innovative Companies.
In 2020, PopSockets was named the Best Company (of our size) to Work for in Colorado by ICC and ColoradoBiz Magazine, after being a runner up in 2019. We were also named on Built In Colorado’s list of Best Midsize Places to work in 2020. We were Inc. 5000's second fastest growing company in the US for 2018, with a 71,424% percent of sales increase over the previous three years. Just this past March, we’ve been named one of Fast Companies Most Innovative Companies.
