Job Title: Executive Product Leader
As a visionary and results-driven Executive Product Leader, you will lead the strategic direction and long-term architecture of On's Performance Product Portfolio, encompassing Running, Outdoor, and Athletes. This pivotal role demands a mastery of technical innovation skillfully intertwined with deep consumer insights, ultimately defining the global trajectory of On's performance categories.
Your Responsibilities
You will provide visionary and strategic leadership for all performance verticals, ensuring alignment with On’s global mission and long-term business objectives. As a strategic yet hands-on leader, you will bring cutting-edge products to market while optimizing processes, fostering innovation, and ensuring operational excellence across all functions.
- Define and drive the overarching product strategy for the performance division, supporting the company’s brand vision, mission, and growth objectives.
- Lead, grow, and enable the global product strategy team for our performance verticals, ensuring seamless collaboration across product innovation, design, and product creation teams.
- Partner closely with innovation, product creation, and design teams to align all product initiatives with our vision of becoming the most premium sportswear brand globally, centered on performance.
- Build and scale a high-performance team that thrives on cross-functional collaboration and operational excellence while fostering an environment of inclusivity, development, and accountability.
- Foster leadership at every level, with a clear focus on developing and nurturing the next wave of leadership within the organization. Mentor, coach, and empower emerging leaders to ensure a robust succession pipeline that sustains long-term success.
- Establish a clear vision for how channel strategy, brand strategy, and product strategy together orchestrate the product portfolio’s lifecycle across our performance verticals.
- Lead with a focus on vision and innovation, ensuring that On stays ahead of industry trends and maintains its position as a leader in the performance market.
Your Qualifications
- 15+ years of global leadership experience in high-performing product organizations, preferably within the sportswear industry.
- 10+ years of experience leading large teams with the ability to inspire and execute against high-growth business objectives.
- A visionary and entrepreneurial product leader with a passion for building and mentoring world-class teams capable of fostering innovation and delivering superior results.
- A proven track record of building and improving processes and systems in complex, multinational, and cross-functional organizations to drive operational efficiencies.
- Expertise in end-to-end product creation.
- Extensive experience collaborating with design, product creation, and GTM teams at the executive level, acting as a key partner in defining and executing product roadmaps.
- Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence and engage at all levels, both internally and externally.
Meet the Team
As the product strategy team, we are responsible for managing product creation from start to finish. Our cross-functional interaction is driven by a consumer-focused mindset to ensure we create a product line that effectively sells both in and through.
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