Strategic Projects Manager
Mentions 'vibe coding' and AI copilots explicitly; encourages experimenting with those environments to prototype models and automate analyses.
About the Role
The Strategic Projects Manager will drive product relevance and accelerate sales growth by owning product and sales data, building dashboards, and delivering data-driven strategic insights across the business. The role partners with Data Insights and business leaders to design trusted data models, monitor performance, and prototype productivity improvements using AI tools.
Job Description
Role
The Strategic Projects Manager reports to the Director of Strategic Initiatives and focuses on driving product relevance and accelerating sales growth across customer touchpoints through data ownership, analytics, and strategic partnership.
Key Responsibilities
- Own product and sales datasets end-to-end: validate data, reconcile disparate sources, and ensure consistency across systems.
- Partner with the Data Insights team to design scalable, trusted data models in Snowflake, Postgres, and SQL Server.
- Build, maintain, and improve dashboards to track business health and monitor product performance, customer behavior, and sales growth across KPIs (brand, category, region).
- Lead retrospective analyses of strategic initiatives and pilots; surface learnings and deliver actionable, data-backed recommendations.
- Communicate insights to stakeholders via ongoing reporting, written and verbal updates, and formal presentations.
- Act as a trusted business partner to identify opportunities and risks ahead of time.
- Leverage AI tools, automation, and experiment with emerging technologies (e.g., vibe coding environments, AI copilots) to prototype models and streamline manual processes.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Data Analytics, or related field.
- 2–4 years of experience in analytics, business intelligence, strategy, or consulting (consumer goods or design-related industry a plus).
- Advanced SQL fluency for joining relational tables, building analytical datasets, and manipulating fact/dimension models.
- Strong experience with Power BI and familiarity with AI-enabled tools.
- Experience working with large, complex datasets and preparing data for business use.
- Exceptional communication and collaboration skills; able to translate data into compelling stories for non-technical partners.
- Strong time management and ability to meet deadlines and balance priorities.
- Passion for design, product, and customer relevance is a plus.
What We’re Looking For
- Proactive, business-owner mindset that connects data to strategy and customer impact.
- Intellectual curiosity and an eagerness to understand the commercial ecosystem across multi-brand product development and client relationships.
- Builder’s mentality, excited to shape new tools and uncover insights to accelerate company growth.
Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Corporate Annual Profit Sharing
- 401K Plan
- Dental Coverage, Medical Coverage, Prescription Drug Plan, Vision Coverage
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- TELADOC
- 20 Days Paid Time Off (PTO) and 10 Company Holidays
- Bereavement Leave
- Life Insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- AFLAC Plans (Accident and Critical Illness Plans)
- Pet Insurance
- Short-Term Disability (STD) and Long Term Disability (LTD)
- Parental Medical Leave and Child Bonding Leave
- Employee Discount