Senior Lead Product Manager, Outdoor / Senior Lead Product Manageress, Outdoor

Job Title: Senior Lead - Outdoor Footwear

This role is dedicated to the comprehensive management of our Outdoor Footwear product line, which encompasses trail running, hiking, and city-inspired outdoor products. From initial briefings and market insights to color stories and sales presentations, this position covers all aspects of the product lifecycle. It also requires strategic collaboration with other key verticals within the apparel sector that are crucial to the success of the product line.

The Senior Lead will report directly to the Director of Product Outdoor on the Global Product Strategy team.

Your Mission:

• Create world-class product briefs that integrate consumer/athlete perspectives, key business metrics, storytelling, and competitive analysis to support the overarching Outdoor strategy.
• Develop detailed 365 color, graphic, and material briefs aligned with seasonal business goals.
• Own the seasonal product roadmap and oversee the end-to-end execution of inline product releases, from concept to market.
• Monitor the active outdoor marketplace, focusing on footwear and identifying macro shifts, regional insights, groundbreaking innovations, and mass market trends.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with Design, Innovation, Merchandising, Marketing, and Operations to ensure seamless and timely execution of the inline collection.
• Build and maintain key stakeholder relationships across regions to share insights, organize team travel and inspiration trips, and enhance storytelling through the consumer's perspective.
• Analyze global product performance and commercial metrics, translating sell-through data and consumer feedback into actionable insights for continuous improvement and future category planning.

Your Story:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience managing the end-to-end product lifecycle for a major brand's product line; experience in footwear and/or outdoor products is a plus (e.g., trail running, hiking, and city-inspired products).
• 3+ years of experience integrating creative consumer insights and storytelling into a structured 3-5 year long-range strategic product plan (LRP).
• Exceptional presentation and communication skills, particularly in conveying complex product strategies to executive leadership (C-level), global regional teams, and external business accounts.
• Possess a recognized, detail-oriented "product eye" with experience implementing micro-innovations to enhance consumer experience, value, and product performance.
• Strong ability to perform under pressure in a fast-paced, dynamic product environment while prioritizing and promoting the overall Outdoor Footwear strategy.
• Fluent in English (both written and spoken).

Your Team:

This position offers the opportunity to join a dedicated outdoor team, focused on delivering the industry's most premium and innovative outdoor product line. The larger team encompasses a wealth of expertise in design, development, testing, engineering, color and materials design, as well as innovation. This individual will be responsible for maximizing the contributions of each functional group for the overall success of the product line.

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