Job Title: Product Manager – Retail Product Lines
Location: Beaverton, Oregon (On-Site)
Job Summary: We are supporting a confidential search for a product leadership opportunity focused on kids basketball footwear. Our team is looking for a candidate who can bring clarity, consumer insight, and cross-functional coordination to a fast-moving product creation environment.
Responsibilities:
- Develop a deep understanding of the kids basketball consumer through research, athlete feedback, product testing, marketplace insights, competitive analysis, and basketball culture.
- Translate consumer insights into clear, inspiring product briefs that define the consumer problem, product vision, performance benefits, positioning, price, and marketplace opportunity.
- Partner with design, development, engineering, materials, merchandising, brand, and marketplace teams to guide product creation from concept through commercialization.
- Manage signature and seasonal footwear initiatives, maintain key franchises, and help drive decisions that protect the most important consumer benefits while balancing cost, timing, and assortment needs.
Required:
- 5+ years of footwear product management experience preferred; relevant product line management experience will also be considered.
- Strong understanding of the footwear product creation process from consumer insight and briefing through commercialization.
- Experience partnering with multidisciplinary creation teams such as design, development, engineering, and materials.
- Strong communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to create clarity and alignment across diverse cross-functional teams.
- Ability to manage multiple products and workstreams simultaneously in a fast-moving creation environment.
- Strong curiosity for basketball, footwear, youth culture, and the evolving needs of young athletes.
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