Project Manager- Global Product

At Burton, we are a purpose-led brand rooted in snowboarding and the outdoors. We fight for the future of our people, planet, and sport. We aim to maximize our positive social impact and minimize our negative environmental impact while delivering high-quality performance products.

As a global leader in snowboarding, we’re committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion for the long-term health of our company, sport, and community. Through these efforts, we aim to make snowboarding and the outdoors accessible to all.

The Breakdown:
Project Managers at Burton play a critical role in bringing our company strategies to life. Product PMs are responsible for organizing and leading the completion of projects in a timely fashion within Burton’s product roadmap utilizing collaboration, clear communication, and effective stakeholder management. PMs must understand the requirements for project success and help drive cross functional teams to completion.
The Product Project Manager will work as a partner to the cross functional Product departments for all types of Burton product including outerwear, accessories, boots, boards, bindings, goggles, and helmets. This position will require a positive, unbiased, and confident collaborative attitude and an ability to adapt processes in an organized and detail oriented mindset.
Leading project meetings by creating agendas, supporting accountability with notes and action items, facilitating decision making, monitoring risks, and addressing project issues are all key components to the role. Must be detail oriented, open to learning, and possess exceptional process management and adaptation skills. Ability to independently work in a fast-paced environment with constantly changing demands required. Must be able to prioritize competing demands while maintaining a keen focus on details and ability to identify and address potential risks to the projects. Must be comfortable working in a cross-functional role with frequent intradepartmental communication.

What You Get to Do:

• Guide project teams from project planning through execution and closing.
• Lead regular project team meetings on a variety of projects to facilitate work completion, decision making, and risk assessment.
• Oversee project milestone planning and KPIs. Ensure project team accountability to project milestones.
• Coordinate with the Product Project Management Team to ensure project timing fits well in the greater project portfolio.
• Anticipate and communicate risks to deliverables and create recommendations for risk mitigation and resolution.
• Support project team with project reporting and tracking.
• Communicate closely with the rest of the Product PM group on project statuses.
• Identify and implement improvements in project processes.
• Support maintenance of visibility and accountability tools for all partners involved in projects you are managing.
• Support operational, project, and strategic initiatives as required.
• Champion change management by regularly reviewing adoption rate of processes and tools and investigating roadblocks to adoption.

What You’ll Bring to the Team:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Project Management experience required, particularly in schedule creation and management. PMP certification is a plus.
• Experience in Product Development or Product Engineering preferred.
• Experience with Smartsheet, PLM systems, Excel, Microsoft Teams, Basecamp, Powerpoint, and Illustrator preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to work both independently and as a member of a team.
• Ability to self-motivate, adapt, prioritize, and multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to positively influence others and take responsibility for outcomes.
• Strong communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
• Capability to develop and present succinct status summaries and reports for stakeholders.
• Desire to obtain and implement feedback on a regular basis.
• Ability to manage and distill large amounts of information.
• Creative thinking and ability to approach problems from many angles.

The role will report to the Sr Manager – Global Product Project Management and will work with partners in the following functional areas: Merchandising, Design, Industrial Design, Engineering, Commercialization Development, Tech Design, Raw Materials, Innovation, Sourcing, and Supply Operations. This is an opportunity to manage product development projects from idea conception through commercialization and become an expert at delivering impactful products to our customers.
To get a sense of whether this position is a good fit for you, reflecting on the following questions might be helpful:

• Do you enjoy uncovering information in groups to drive alignment and clarity on the work to be done?
• Do you find satisfaction in identifying roadblocks and working with subject matter experts to find solutions?
• Are you someone who is always looking ahead to reduce risk in upcoming work?
• Do you enjoy organizing many competing demands to create a clear path of action?
• Do you manage your own time and energy well so you can follow through on your commitments to others?
• Are you driven by the idea of learning a breadth of information in order to create a foundation for others to operate within?
• Are you excited by the idea of creating plans, and facing the challenge of navigating change to produce collaborative outcomes?
• Are you passionate about having a role in creating products that will have a lasting impact to the sport of snowboarding?

If so, we’d love to hear from you to find out more about how you’ll help us transform the way we work.
Our HQ is based in Burlington, Vermont. We will offer relocation assistance to any candidate who is hired if they are able to move to Burlington.

Though we wish we could reach out to all applicants personally, you will only be contacted directly should you be chosen to move forward in the process. Candidates not chosen for this particular opportunity are encouraged to check back often for other roles as they are posted. Keep trying!