Ketone-IQ · 5 hours ago
Senior Manager, Product Operations & Commercialization
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
5+ years expKetone-IQ is a company redefining energy for elite performance, trusted by top athletes and military personnel. They are seeking a Senior Manager, Product Operations & Commercialization to oversee product execution and ensure a smooth transition from concept to market while building efficient processes across cross-functional teams.
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Responsibilities
Own integrated product execution across all physical Product at Ketone-IQ — including consumables, packaging, retail merchandising, and branded materials — guiding project initiatives from concept through commercialization
Define and manage launch plans, dependencies, and decision gates to balance speed, cost (COGS), quality, and operational feasibility
Drive alignment across Product, Marketing, Sales, Creative, Quality, and Supply Chain, ensuring clarity of ownership and momentum across complex initiatives
Ensure downstream needs of GTM Teams (Sales, E-commerce, and Marketing — e.g., product pages, creative assets, sales materials, and operational readiness) are considered early and sequenced appropriately
Partner with stakeholders post-launch to monitor Product performance metrics and identify optimization opportunities, upgrades, cost-savings, and operational improvements
Design and maintain scalable systems for project tracking, documentation, and cross-functional visibility (e.g., Notion; PJM tools like Asana, Smartsheets, Instagantt, Google Suite)
Build clear, repeatable workflows for product development, specification management, packaging changes, and commercialization that enable teams to move faster without sacrificing rigor
Continuously identify friction points and operational gaps. Evolve processes to improve execution quality and decision-making as the business scales
Lead RFPs and supplier sourcing/evaluation for packaging, merchandising, merch, and other physical components, assessing options across cost, quality, scalability, sustainability, and risk
Partner closely with Quality, Creative, and Supply Chain to ensure new components and vendors are properly qualified, prototyped, press-checked (if printed), and produced to quality first time and at scale
Own primary product packaging holistically — including development, component changes, custom development, sustainability improvements, and vendor qualifications
Support onboarding of new partners and transitions between vendors to ensure continuity and quality
Jump into high-priority initiatives as needed — especially where structure, coordination, and execution are required to unblock progress
Act as a thought partner to the VP of Product on how to scale product execution, operating cadence, and cross-functional collaboration as the business grows
Help embed sustainability and broader stewardship impact considerations into decision-making, Product pipeline development and manufacturing, reporting, and KPI tracking
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in product operations, project management, commercialization, or adjacent roles within CPG, food & beverage, wellness, or regulated consumer products
Proven experience leading cross-functional product and packaging initiatives from concept through launch
Demonstrated ability to manage external partners (co-manufacturers, packaging vendors, creative production partners)
Strong comfort owning packaging projects (even if not a packaging engineer) — including sourcing, vendor qualification, sustainability trade-offs, and cost considerations
Experience working in fast-growing, ambiguous environments where priorities evolve
Thrive in complex, cross-functional environments
Systems thinker who naturally builds structure where there is ambiguity
Clear communicator across creative, technical, and operational teams
High-ownership mindset with a bias toward action
Comfortable navigating evolving priorities in a fast-growing business
Energized by building scalable processes that improve execution quality
Company
Ketone-IQ
Ketone-IQ is an energy science company redefining what's possible.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$8.22MKey Investors
Andreessen Horowitz
2020-11-27Series Unknown· $5.62M
2017-03-15Seed
2015-12-05Seed· $2.6M
Leadership Team
Michael Brandt
CEO & Co-Founder
Geoffrey Woo
Chairman & Co-founder
Recent News
2024-05-20
2024-01-29
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