Product Launch Project Manager

Empowered Cooks is looking for a highly organized and assertive Project Launch Manager to oversee the product-launch process. The role involves coordinating the team, establishing ownership and deadlines, and ensuring products are launched successfully.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain the complete project plan for every active product
• Translate product goals into clear milestones, tasks, owners, dependencies, and deadlines
• Coordinate work across:
• Amazon strategy and account management
• Product design and engineering
• Prototyping and sampling
• Branding, graphics, and packaging
• Factory sourcing and supplier agreements
• Production, quality assurance, and testing
• Freight, logistics, and inventory arrival
• Amazon and Shopify launch preparation
• Work with team members every day to ensure meaningful progress is being made
• Keep project management tool accurate and current so leadership can immediately see:
• Current status
• Work completed
• Next action
• Responsible owner
• Due date
• Blockers
• Decisions needed
• Challenge vague updates and clarify exactly what is required next
• Identify stalled work before leadership has to discover it
• Determine why a project is stuck and create a recovery plan
• Reset commitments, reorganize priorities, call working sessions, and coordinate additional support when necessary
• Reject incomplete project updates or deliverables and return them to the appropriate owner for completion
• Make sure handoffs between departments happen clearly and on time
• Escalate recurring performance concerns with specific documentation and a recommended response
• Coordinate timely decisions from company leadership without allowing routine approvals to become bottlenecks
• Lead weekly portfolio reviews with the company owners
• Complete a post-launch review covering performance, customer feedback, quality issues, and lessons for future launches

Requirements:

• Demonstrated experience managing projects involving multiple people, departments, vendors, or external partners
• Experience maintaining detailed project plans in software such as Shortcut, Jira, Asana, ClickUp, Monday.com, or a comparable system
• Experience holding contributors accountable for deadlines and deliverables
• Strong written English and the ability to communicate status, ownership, risk, and next steps clearly
• Experience independently diagnosing stalled projects and driving them back into motion
• Consumer-product launches
• E-commerce or Amazon
• Product development
• Manufacturing or factory sourcing
• Packaging and branding
• International logistics
• Quality assurance and product testing