Cricut - South Jordan, UT
posted 4 days ago
About the position
The Global R&D Product Development Manager includes people management and product development with responsibility for project execution to drive incremental revenue, lower product costs, improve quality, and work with new sources of supply and for innovation, ideation and the associated concept assessments. This role collaborates across functions to drive other business and continuous improvement initiatives. To be successful, the Global R&D Product Development Manager must play a leadership role in leveraging our global supply base and technical talent and encouraging a culture consistent with Cricut values and mantras. The role will interface with Hardware and Software teams to bring new ecosystems to market. Results are delivered by having a broad base of technical process and product development experiences, advance-level communication skills, statistical data analysis proficiency, Lean principle and problem solving skills, voice-of-customer experience, creativity, the ability to collaborate and influence with others, and drive results with speed.
Responsibilities
- Develop a team of technical talent using our chosen performance management system, Lattice.
- Oversee international team and individual work to ensure alignment and execution to business needs.
- Mentor, share knowledge, and coach as a subject matter expert in areas including product development, project management, statistical data analysis, and Six Sigma and ELS tools.
- Lead projects to meet business needs for incremental revenue, lower product costs, quality improvements, and new sources of supply in our chosen project management system, Arena.
- Contribute to innovation ideation and lead concept assessments.
- Represent the Consumables segment on cross-functional and global teams.
- Develop and maintain productive, respectful relationships to understand business and customer needs.
- Encourage a culture consistent with Cricut's values and mantras.
- Conduct customer focus, market research, and execute experiments.
- Benchmark and gather information about competitors' materials, costs, supply chain, technology, etc.
- Develop test methods linked to product performance.
- Analyze suppliers and markets to identify trends, opportunities for competitive advantage, and new ideas for products and services.
Requirements
- Prior work with colleagues in other regions of the world.
- At least 7 years of product development experience using a stage gate methodology and project management/PLM software.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or a materials field, with paper, vinyl, or writing utensils product development experience preferred.
