Chief Product Officer

• This role is based in Brooklyn, NY with a hybrid in-office / WFH schedule.  The client will offer relocation assistance for the selected candidate.  The salary range for this role is $250,000-275,000 based on experience.

• Develop and lead the overarching product strategy across home, gift, accessories and adjacent lifestyle categories.
• Translate company growth objectives, marketplace trends, customer insights and historical performance into clear product and assortment priorities.
• Evaluate category opportunities and determine where the organization should invest, expand, innovate, reposition or rationalize.
• Establish a strong pipeline of new products, key items and scalable concepts capable of driving meaningful incremental business.
• Balance near-term customer opportunities with the long-term development and health of the overall product portfolio.
• Bring a disciplined approach to determining which product concepts and category opportunities warrant investment.
• Lead category and assortment planning across multiple product classifications, price points and retail channels.
• Evaluate selling performance, retailer feedback, competitive activity, consumer trends and market intelligence to guide product decisions.
• Identify white-space opportunities within existing and emerging categories.
• Build differentiated assortments tailored to the needs of individual retailers while maintaining a clear and compelling product point of view.
• Partner closely with sales leadership on major retailer presentations, seasonal opportunities and new business initiatives.
• Continually assess mature categories for opportunities to refresh, reposition or reinvent the assortment.
• Provide senior leadership across the complete product lifecycle, from concept and trend direction through design, development, sourcing, customer presentation, launch and lifecycle management.
• Lead and develop Product Development, Design and Creative teams with clear expectations around priorities, timing, quality and commercial results.
• Encourage original product thinking rather than simply reacting to existing market trends.
• Ensure that new products successfully combine aesthetic appeal, functionality, value, manufacturability and commercial viability.
• Champion innovation in materials, formats, product applications, packaging and emerging consumer trends.
• Introduce new tools and technologies, including appropriate use of AI-enabled creative and product-development tools, to improve speed, insight and innovation.
• Maintain a deep understanding of the U.S. retail landscape and the product expectations of major national and specialty retailers.
• Translate broader consumer and design trends into customer-specific product opportunities.
• Partner with Sales to develop assortments and product concepts that strengthen existing customer relationships and create new revenue opportunities.
• Evaluate competitive assortments, pricing, positioning and presentation to identify opportunities for meaningful differentiation.
• Understand the complexities of developing products for high-volume retail while maintaining the creativity and agility required for emerging or specialty opportunities.
• Evaluate product opportunities through both a creative and financial lens, considering revenue potential, margin, development complexity, speed to market, competitive differentiation and organizational capacity.
• Use sales results and product performance to continually refine assortment breadth, category investment and innovation priorities.
• Make disciplined decisions regarding resource allocation and product-development investment.
• Partner with executive leadership, Sales and Sourcing to balance growth objectives with margin, timing, operational capabilities and customer expectations.
• Ensure teams remain focused on the products and opportunities with the greatest potential business impact.
• Build, mentor and develop high-performing teams across Product Development, Design and related creative functions.
• Assess organizational capabilities and recruit key talent where additional expertise is needed to support growth.
• Establish clear accountability and effective decision-making across product, design, sourcing, sales and creative teams.
• Foster a culture that combines creativity, curiosity and innovation with commercial awareness and executional discipline.
• Develop processes that allow teams to move efficiently from concept through commercialization without sacrificing product quality or originality.
• Serve as a senior member of the leadership team and contribute to broader company strategy, growth initiatives and organizational planning.
• Act as a strategic partner to the CEO and other functional leaders on major product, category, customer and investment decisions.
• Bring well-developed product recommendations to executive leadership and translate strategic decisions into executable plans.
• Provide leadership with clear visibility into product opportunities, priorities, performance, organizational capabilities and resource requirements.

• Significant senior-level product leadership experience within Home, Gift, Accessories, Lifestyle or closely related consumer product categories.
• Strong experience developing multi-category product assortments rather than operating within a single narrow classification.
• A successful track record working with major U.S. retailers, ideally across mass, department store, specialty, off-price and/or national retail channels.
• Deep expertise in product development, merchandising, assortment strategy and commercialization.
• Strong understanding of the relationship between design, sourcing, pricing, margin, retailer requirements and speed to market.
• Experience identifying and successfully entering new product categories or materially expanding existing ones.
• The ability to interpret consumer and design trends and translate them into commercially relevant, differentiated products.
• Experience managing and developing senior creative, product development and design talent.
• Strong financial and analytical judgment, with the ability to prioritize opportunities based on both creative potential and business return.
• Experience partnering closely with Sales and executive leadership on major customer and growth initiatives.
• A collaborative leadership style combined with the confidence to make difficult product, assortment and investment decisions.
• Experience within a wholesale business.

Salary : $250,000 - $275,000