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Project Manager (Brand Partnerships and PR Boxes)

Location: Ogden, UT (on site)

Reports to: Director of Supply & Launch Planning

About the Role

We move fast on limited drops, trend responses, brand-moment products, and PR / influencer-seeding boxes that need to be on-shelf in weeks, not months. We're hiring a Product Manager to own that fast lane end-to-end.

This is a highly visible, cross-functional role that requires comfort operating in both modes — the disciplined, months-out

planning of stage-gate development, and the same-week, turnaround required to support influencer sends and partner

activations.

You'll report to our Director of Supply & Launch Planning with a dotted line to the CEO, who sets the direction for these programs. When the CEO has an idea, you turn it into a realistic commit date and a plan - fast. This is a build-the-process seat, not an inherit-the-playbook seat: your job is to make "fast" mean disciplined, not chaotic.

What You'll Own

• The drop / launch calendar — Maintain accurate, up-to-date timelines in Asana, including stage-gate deadlines, owners, and status (on track / at risk / blocked). This is the single source of truth for every fast-turn program in progress. You keep it current, realistic, and visible to everyone.
• The critical path —translate a brief into a realistic commit date (typically within ~48 hours), map every dependency, and drive each milestone to its date.
• A purpose-built fast-lane process — Build timelines by working backwards from confirmed launch dates, while leaving room to accommodate urgent Brand Partnerships pulls. This should be a slimmed down gate process designed for speed that never sacrifices quality or margin.
• You design it, own it, and hold teams to it.
• Supplier coordination for speed — know which vendors can actually move fast, manage those relationships to the timeline (not just price), and surface lead-time risk before it becomes a miss. Track sample progress against agreed timelines, prioritizing units needed for upcoming PR or partnership moments.
• Cross-functional launch orchestration — Brand, eCommerce, Marketing, and Warehouse all need to know what's coming and what they owe. You're the air-traffic controller. Coordinate handoffs between creative, development, sampling and Brand Partnerships.
• Brand Partnerships & PR box Execution — Manage rapid-turnaround requests - often days, not months - reprioritizing daily as new asks come in from Brand Partnerships. Curated kits across all brands: contents, packaging, recipient coordination with Marketing, and assembly with Warehouse.
• The post-launch loop — cycle-time actuals vs. commit, what broke, what improves next cycle. The lane gets faster and tighter every round.

Success Criteria

Success means influencers, brands, and partners always receive a polished, on-brand box exactly when a campaign needs it. This requires supplier samples to arrive on schedule, approvals to be clearly documented, and giving leadership consistent visibility into what is on track, at risk, or blocked.

First 30 Days — Every active program is logged, calendared, and visible. You've met every supplier in the fast-turn network and know their real lead times, not their sales-pitch lead times.

60 Days — First drop launched under your ownership, on commit date. The fast-lane process is documented and socialized; the cross-functional team knows you're the coordination layer.

90 Days — Cycle time is baselined and you can show it shrinking, not growing. You can articulate the delta between the fast lane and the standard 15-month calendar, and supplier responsiveness is tracked.

What You Bring

• A bachelor's degree from an accredited university — required.
• 4–8 years in project management, program management, product operations, brand/marketing operations, or product development — ideally including fast-turn, limited-drop, launch, or event programs.
• A track record of owning timelines and critical paths end-to-end, and fluency in a project-management tool (Asana, Monday, Smartsheet, or similar).
• Vendor / supplier coordination experience — managing partners to a deadline, not just negotiating a price.
• Cross-functional orchestration without authority — you keep people you don't manage on schedule.
• Comfort with high visibility and fast-changing direction (you'll have a direct dotted line to the CEO), and the ability to turn creative intent into an operating calendar quickly.
• Physical / consumer-product experience is a strong plus — this is physical product with factory and print timelines, not software.

Speed without discipline is just chaos with urgency. The fast lane has to be genuinely faster than standard development — fewer gates, tighter timelines, pre-qualified suppliers — but every gate that exists must hold. This is an individual-contributor seat: your leverage is process, relationships, and calendar discipline, not headcount.

Reporting & Organization

Line — Role

Reports to (solid): VP of Supply Chain

Dotted line: CEO (Hayden Wadsworth) — sets program direction

Internal title: Product Manager — HydroJug Rush Products

Level: Senior individual contributor

Location: On-site, Ogden, UT

About HydroJug, Inc.

HydroJug, Inc. is an established, profitable consumer-products company headquartered in Ogden, Utah, designing and selling premium hydration and lifestyle products through direct-to-consumer and major retail channels — now scaling a portfolio of brands.