Job Title: Executive Product Leader
As a visionary and results-driven Executive Product Leader, you will guide the strategic direction and long-term architecture of On's Performance Product Portfolio, which encompasses Running, Outdoor, and Athletes. This pivotal role requires mastery of technical innovation combined with deep consumer insights, shaping the global trajectory of On's performance categories.
Your role will involve offering visionary and strategic leadership across all performance verticals, ensuring alignment with On’s global mission and long-term business objectives. As a strategic yet hands-on leader, you will introduce cutting-edge products to the market while optimizing processes, fostering innovation, and ensuring operational excellence throughout all functions.
With significant expertise in leading global Product organizations, your inspirational leadership will guide a talented product strategy team, setting new benchmarks for collaboration and innovation. You will ensure our product pipeline remains agile and world-class, balancing hands-on involvement to impact the present with strategic and visionary thinking to influence the company’s long-term trajectory.
Your Mission
- Define and drive the overarching product strategy for the performance division in support of 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.
- Collaborate closely with innovation, product creation, and design teams to ensure all product initiatives align with our vision of becoming the most premium sportswear brand globally, rooted in performance.
- Build and scale a high-performance team that thrives on cross-functional collaboration and operational excellence, fostering an environment of inclusivity, development, and accountability.
- Encourage leadership at every level, focusing on developing and nurturing the next generation of leaders within the organization. Mentor, coach, and empower emerging leaders to ensure a strong 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 Story
- 15+ years of global leadership experience in high-performing product organizations, preferably within the sportswear industry.
- 10+ years of experience in leading large teams, with the ability to inspire and achieve high-growth business objectives.
- A visionary and entrepreneurial product leader, passionate about building and mentoring world-class teams capable of fostering innovation and delivering superior results.
- A proven track record in streamlining and enhancing processes and systems within complex, multinational, and cross-functional organizations, driving operational efficiencies.
- Expertise in end-to-end product creation.
- Extensive experience collaborating with design, product creation, and GTM teams at an executive level, acting as a key partner in defining and executing product roadmaps.
- Outstanding communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence and engage at all levels, both internally and externally.
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