Project Manager, Growth & Special Projects

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Project Manager, Growth & Special Projects If you are the operator who notices a product launch is stuck, figures out who owns the next step, and gets the team moving before revenue is lost, this is a rare seat next to a founder-CEO scaling a fast-moving consumer-products business across ecommerce, retail, omnichannel, product development, marketing, partnerships, and operations. You will be the internal glue for the CEO’s highest-priority growth projects: turning ideas, meetings, open loops, and cross-functional handoffs into clear plans, owners, deadlines, and completed work. The Opportunity A founder-led consumer-products company is building the people, processes, and operating rhythm needed for its next stage of growth. The CEO currently carries too many growth projects, follow-ups, and handoffs personally. Your mandate is to reduce founder dependency by creating visibility, accountability, and momentum across the projects that matter most. This is not an executive assistant role. You will not be responsible for routine inbox management, calendar ownership, Slack administration, travel coordination, or personal-assistant duties. This is a hands-on project management and business operations role for someone who can absorb context quickly, keep stakeholders aligned, and move work forward without waiting to be chased. Long term, the company’s ambition is to help scale a major business unit from approximately $10M toward $100M over five years. This role is built for someone who wants to grow into greater strategic project ownership through an individual-contributor path: Project Manager to Senior Project Manager to Strategic Project Manager. What You Will Own CEO Growth Portfolio and Operating Cadence Build and maintain a clear priority dashboard across growth initiatives, product launches, retail, omnichannel, marketing, operations, finance, recruiting, partnerships, and special projects. Turn verbal direction, meetings, emails, notes, and open loops into actions with an owner, deadline, blocker, and expected result. Run a disciplined daily and weekly cadence around priorities, active projects, decisions, risks, and next steps. Prepare concise project briefs, decision points, status updates, and recommended next actions for the CEO. Help distinguish what is urgent, what is important, what should move now, and what should be pushed later. Project Management and Accountability Maintain a current view of priority projects, including scope, owner, timeline, dependencies, risks, and next action. Create agendas, project plans, decision logs, and follow-up trackers that make work easier to execute. Hold assigned owners accountable for commitments and deadlines with professionalism and tact. Escalate missed deliverables, unclear ownership, blocked work, and meaningful risks early. Step in to coordinate resources, unblock next steps, and keep projects moving without creating unnecessary bureaucracy. Product Launch and Cross-Functional Execution Coordinate initiatives across retail, ecommerce, marketing, product development, design, shipping, warehouse, operations, finance, legal, recruiting, agencies, and external partners. Keep product launches moving from product selection and revisions through production, inbound goods, photography/assets, packaging, team communication, and launch readiness. Maintain visibility into retailer deliverables, packaging timelines, agency work, contracts, recruiting needs, financial reviews, and executive-level projects. Identify stalled work early, clarify who owns the next step, and drive resolution before delays turn into lost momentum or revenue. Create lightweight processes and SOPs where recurring work currently depends on memory, informal follow-up, or founder intervention. Decision and Information Support Synthesize competing inputs into short, decision-ready summaries that separate facts, assumptions, risks, and recommendations. Track decisions and make sure downstream communication and execution happen. Maintain organized records for strategic plans, products, partners, launches, customer issues, organizational planning, and key projects. Notice patterns such as repeated bottlenecks, missed commitments, unclear ownership, or unnecessary CEO involvement, then recommend practical fixes. What This Role Does Not Own Routine inbox, Slack, calendar, travel, or personal-assistant responsibilities. Retail sales strategy, buyer relationships, or retailer P&L ownership. Functional leadership of marketing, product, finance, operations, retail, or omnichannel teams. Being the catch-all owner for work that belongs to an accountable functional leader. A purely advisory role where ideas are not carried through to execution. What Success Looks Like In Your First 30 Days You have built trusted relationships with the CEO and key internal stakeholders. CEO priorities and open projects are consolidated into a clear operating view. Owners, deadlines, dependencies, recurring meetings, and major blockers are mapped. By 60 Days The weekly CEO operating cadence is consistent and useful. Meeting preparation, follow-up, and action tracking are reliable. Deadlines and risks are visible before they become emergencies. Initial recurring processes or SOPs are documented. By 90 Days The CEO spends materially less time chasing updates. Important cross-functional projects have clear owners, deadlines, and next steps. Growth ideas are being converted into structured initiatives. Recurring bottlenecks are being surfaced and solved. By 12 Months The CEO is spending more time on strategy, leadership, talent, major relationships, product vision, and high-impact decisions. The organization is less dependent on the CEO for daily coordination. Priority projects are visible, sequenced, and protected from low-value distractions. Internal teams trust you for clear communication, discretion, sound judgment, and reliable closure. What Makes You a Strong Fit You have experience in project management, business operations, growth, account management, consulting, or another cross-functional role in a fast-moving company. You are likely around 4–7 years into your career, though demonstrated capability matters more than a fixed number of years. You can show examples of managing multiple substantive projects from idea through completion. You are highly organized and strong in written communication, follow-through, documentation, and prioritization. You can turn ambiguity into a plan and move work forward with limited direction. You are comfortable respectfully pushing back, clarifying priorities, and holding peers or senior stakeholders accountable. You can move between detailed execution and strategic growth conversations without losing precision. You are fluent with project-management tools, collaborative documents, spreadsheets, dashboards, and modern AI-enabled workflows. You want a long-term home where you can earn increasing responsibility by helping projects launch, grow, and get completed. Nice-to-Haves and Transferable Background Experience in consumer products, retail, ecommerce, marketplaces, brand management, product launches, or operations. Experience working directly with a founder, CEO, or senior executive through rapid growth or organizational change. Comfort coordinating with retailers, agencies, factories, attorneys, accountants, recruiters, finance partners, and other external stakeholders. Evidence that you have grown quickly in prior roles and taken on responsibilities beyond your original job description. Work Environment, Location, and Compensation Full-time role based in Los Angeles, CA, primarily in office. Downtown Los Angeles-area office with parking available. Typical office hours are 8am–4pm. Casual, relaxed office culture with a high-execution pace. Target cash compensation is $80,000–$85,000 base salary plus a $10,000 guaranteed first-year bonus. How to Stand Out In addition to your resume, include a short note describing: A growth idea you helped turn into a real result. A cross-functional project you personally drove to completion. A time you held a project owner or senior stakeholder accountable. Compensation The expected total compensation range is USD 80,000–95,000 Yearly. At Urrly, fairness matters. We use AI to review every application against the same clear requirements for the role. Candidates are evaluated only on job-related factors such as skills, certifications, and experience, not personal attributes. Apply now and get a response within 24 hours.