Director of Product Management-Drinkware

Job description

Trove Brands is a privately-held house of brands including BlenderBottle®, Owala®, Whiskware®, and Eco-Brite®. Our patented and best-selling products are designed to simplify and improve everyday life with leading-edge innovation, incomparable quality, and aspirational style. A career at Trove Brands is not about punching the clock. It’s about embracing exciting and fast-paced opportunities that sharpen your skills, drive innovation, and play an integral role in growing our global reach. Your work will not only impact the company, it will impact the lives of millions of people around the world. When you step up to a career at Trove, you step up to cutting-edge excellence. You sign up for bold action and invigorating synergy. You agree to face—and break through—new challenges every single day. As a Director of Product Management-Drinkware, your impact extends beyond individual products. You define category vision, build high performing teams, and set the standard for how product strategy drives enterprise growth. When you step into a Director of Product Management-Drinkware role at Trove Brands, you step into leadership and ownership at scale. You sign up for setting product direction across multiple categories, building and leading high performing teams, and translating long term strategy into clear, executable product plans. You agree to face complex, ambiguous problems and turn them into durable product and organizational clarity. The Director of Product Management-Drinkware is responsible for owning product strategy, execution, and organizational leadership across a portfolio of product categories. Organized by product category rather than brand, this role defines what products exist and how portfolios evolve over time. This role leads and develops a team of Product Managers, setting standards for product definition and execution. The Director serves as the Product Development counterpart to Brand Directors, partnering closely with Brand leadership, Engineering, Design, Legal, Supply Chain, and Commercial leaders to ensure products are user centered and commercially successful. This role serves as a senior category and portfolio expert, ensuring individual product decisions align with broader portfolio strategy and long term business objectives. At Trove Brands, Product Management and Brand Management work as close peers, Product Managers own *category* roadmaps, product definition, and cross-functional execution within Product Development. Product Managers receive product ideas from across the organization, ensure they are properly vetted, and partner with Brand to champion the right products through development and into market. The Senior Product Manager-Hydration/Coffee and Tea ensures this partnership operates effectively at scale across all categories. **Key Responsibilities:** Every role at Trove Brands is critical to our success as a whole. As Director of Product Management, your impact expands across strategy, execution, and talent development. Your responsibilities will include: - Own the 1-to-3-year product strategy and roadmap across multiple product categories - Define category-level product strategy in partnership with Brand and Executive leadership, translating brand and consumer direction into product roadmaps and portfolio plans - Build, lead, and develop a team of Product Managers, including hiring, coaching, and performance management - Set clear expectations, processes, and standards for product definition and lifecycle management - Lead category and portfolio level product planning, prioritization, and investment decisions - Partner with Brand leadership to align multi-generational brand plans with category level product strategy - Ensure product teams leverage insights from Consumer Insights and Brand teams, supplemented by market and competitive research, to develop clear, durable product definitions - Act as a senior category and portfolio expert, monitoring trends, white space, and competitive dynamics - Lead semiannual portfolio and roadmap reviews with senior leadership - Partner with Engineering and Operations leadership to ensure products meet cost, quality, schedule, and regulatory goals at scale - Incorporate in market performance, financial results, and learnings into future portfolio strategy - Ensure product decisions remain aligned with user needs, long term portfolio health, and company strategy - Present category strategy, portfolio performance, and key investment decisions to Executive Leadership **Job Qualifications** We seek leaders who are comfortable owning ambiguity, setting direction, and empowering teams to execute. For this role, we are looking for someone with the following skills and experience: - Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Engineering, Industrial Design, Business, Marketing, or equivalent experience - 5 to 10 years of relevant physical product management experience, preferably in consumer goods or durable products. Experience in the drinkware industry a strong plus. - Demonstrated experience leading and developing product management teams - Proven ability to define and own multi category product strategies and roadmaps - Strong understanding of product development processes from concept through production at scale - Experience working cross functionally with Brand, Engineering, Design, Supply Chain, and Commercial leadership - Ability to synthesize user research, market data, financial inputs, and business objectives into clear strategic direction - Strong communication, organizational, and leadership skills with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization - Experience working with global manufacturing partners is a plus Our culture is passionate, entrepreneurial, and energetic. We value innovation through collaboration. And while we work smart and hard, we also connect and celebrate with equal gusto. We host team-building activities, athletic events, and seasonal celebrations to foster community and reward accomplishments. Bottom line? You’ll love it here. Among the many benefits our team members enjoy are: - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision care - 401k package with employer matching - Paid Time Off - Maternity/Paternity leave - Full indoor basketball/volleyball court - Fully equipped fitness center (cardio, weights, functional fitness area, lockers and showers, etc.) - Yoga studio - Meditation/Nap room - And much more! *Trove Brands is an equal opportunity employer.* *Phone calls regarding this position are not accepted.* ***This is a fully in-office position at our HQ in Lehi, Utah.***