About Ruggable:
Ruggable is a Los Angeles-based, venture-backed, rapidly growing e-commerce startup that is disrupting the $7B rug industry and revolutionizing the market for residential rugs.
Our patented 2-Piece Rug System allows you to remove the top layer of your rug and wash it in your home washing machine, offering an affordable, stylish and convenient solution for young families, pet owners, and busy individuals.
We’re a small, entrepreneurial team with big ambitions.
We have a strong brand, established traction, and amazing advisors fueling our steady growth.
This is an opportunity to get in at the ground floor and solve for complex challenges, while charting your own career.
About Levity:
Levity (levityhome.com) is a new brand in the Ruggable portfolio.
Launched in December 2020, Levity’s mission is to build and deliver innovative furniture products that let our customers live without worry.
Much like Ruggable rugs, our patent-pending Chair Systems have removable upholstery that can be washed in a home washing machine and easily interchanged for new styles.
Though it varies across functions, we operate largely independently (think: startup within a startup), giving you the unique ability to help shape the early trajectory of this new business.
Job Summary:
In this position, you will play a critical role in setting Levity’s product strategy and driving the product development process from concept to final prototype.
You should be excited about the big-picture thinking required to build the right product roadmap for Levity’s customers and business
– and then be equally excited about the no-task-too-small, effective execution required to bring that roadmap to life.
To accomplish this, you will be expected to recruit and lead an interdisciplinary team of user researchers, industrial designers, strategic sourcers, and more.
This individual will have broad exposure to the Levity business but will primarily work with our Core Product, Supply Chain, and Finance teams; this individual will report to and partner with the GM of Levity.
Levity’s products, both current and future, are the essential heartbeat of our mission to deliver furniture that lets our customers live without worry; you’re the person who tells us where we need to go and then gets us there.
What You’ll Do:
- Translate important criteria
– e.g.market size, strategic fit, ease of execution
– into an overarching prioritization framework and then use it to evaluate new product opportunities - Drive the strategic thinking, financial analyses, consumer research, and competitive assessments required to build
– and continuously refine
– the product roadmap - Develop an intimate understanding of our product philosophy and development approach
- Build out and manage a product development ‘engine’
- Project management: create and maintain detailed development timelines and drive effective cross-functional collaboration
- Design: ensure data-driven, customer-centric decisions are made on key product features (dimensions, materials, etc.) while balancing style, function, and affordability
- Sourcing: support the search, vetting, and onboarding of a low-cost, high-quality network of new vendors and manufacturers
- Testing: research, define, and execute on internal and external testing standards
- Partner with Core Product and the rest of the Levity team to ensure smooth transition of ‘launch-ready’ prototypes
- Assist in other projects or initiatives as necessary
– we are a small, scrappy team and everyone wears lots of hats!
What You’ll Need to Have:
Required :
- 4-7 years of experience at a top-tier management consulting firm (or equivalent experience/skill set)
- Ability to think strategically about the big picture and quickly dive into the minutia
- Ability to structure a problem and develop its solution with relative autonomy
- Ability to effectively lead a team with diverse backgrounds and skill sets
- Excellent written and verbal communication with impeccable attention to detail
- Strong interest in product design/development, specifically for hard goods/furniture
Preferred :
- Experience outside of management consulting at a high-growth start-up or F500 company
- Experience in product design/development, specifically for hard goods/furniture
- Experience managing people
At Ruggable, we offer competitive compensation and benefits packages.
Ruggable is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
We proudly recruit and hire a diverse workforce and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents linked here.
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