Description
Job Id: 73514
Product Line Manager
Our client is seeking a Product Line Manager to support its apparel business. This high-visibility role blends strategic and creative work. You will partner with global product management, design, and regional teams to guide performance apparel from concept through delivery for athletes and consumers who live the game.
This role is a hybrid model in Beaverton, Oregon.
Product Line Manager Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end product line process for apparel, taking projects from initial concept through final execution.
- Gather feedback from regional geography teams and work with design to incorporate those insights into product updates.
- Lead product and design reviews, and align with merchandising at key strategy checkpoints.
- Collaborate across functions with design, technical development, merchandising, sports marketing, and elite athletes to deliver high-quality product on schedule.
- Create compelling visual tools and presentations that influence design, merchandising, and regional partners.
- Balance the needs of elite athletes with opportunities to grow retail business.
- Bring structure and direction to ambiguous situations, and keep cross-functional partners aligned and accountable for deadlines.
- Travel up to 30%, both domestic and international.
Product Line Manager Qualifications
- 5+ years of product line design or product management experience with performance apparel. Streetwear candidates with a strong passion for basketball will also be considered.
- Basketball industry or culture experience, with a genuine passion for the game and a strong awareness of the basketball, fashion, and performance landscape.
- Proven ability to manage a product from start to finish and to translate regional feedback into design changes.
- Experience with a global athletic or sports lifestyle brand is highly preferred.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to work with regional teams and engage partners at all levels of seniority.
- Self-starter who takes initiative, learns processes quickly, and thrives in fluid environments.
- Collaborative, team-first leader with strategic thinking and sound business instincts.
- Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, retail merchandising, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Compensation: Up to $56/hr. (DOE)
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