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Summary
Are you Specialized? As a Senior Product Manager for Helmets, you will lead with vision, empathy, and relentless drive—translating the voice of riders into innovative, high-performance products that define the future of cycling safety. Fueled by deep curiosity and a passion for rider experience, you’ll uncover insights from athletes around the world and turn them into meaningful product strategies. Your resilience will power you through the complexities of cross-functional collaboration, global market demands, and the fast pace of product innovation. In this role, you’ll champion the helmet category from concept to launch, shaping the product line with a forward-thinking mindset and a commitment to excellence that inspires those around you.
Senior Product Manager - Helmets
Summary
Are you Specialized? As a Senior Product Manager for Helmets, you will lead with vision, empathy, and relentless drive—translating the voice of riders into innovative, high-performance products that define the future of cycling safety. Fueled by deep curiosity and a passion for rider experience, you’ll uncover insights from athletes around the world and turn them into meaningful product strategies. Your resilience will power you through the complexities of cross-functional collaboration, global market demands, and the fast pace of product innovation. In this role, you’ll champion the helmet category from concept to launch, shaping the product line with a forward-thinking mindset and a commitment to excellence that inspires those around you.
How You’ll Make a Difference
Helmet Strategy: Will be the voice for Helmet business, becoming the driving force for project initiation through launch. Rider Insights: Research product needs from our global riders and translate into product briefs. Product Line Management: create product vision for category to meet the needs of riders, business and brand. Profitability: Work with finance and sales teams to maximize profitability, set pricing and sales strategies. Product Specifications: Maintain product specs, costs, timelines, and details to support GTM efforts & systems. Innovation Vision: Work with engineers & designers continually to build innovation road maps and concepts. Trends: Be on the leading edge of product trends, style, functionality, etc in all types of cycling. Leadership : Be the champion for the Helmet business – connecting athletes, retailers, sales teams and executives. Colors & graphics : Partner with the Design Team to create premium, world-class designs and limited editions. Go-to-Market : Partner with the Rider Promise Team to elevate storytelling and deliver on-time to market.
wHAT YOU NEED TO WIN
- Inspiring Presentations: Experience creating product presentations, at many levels – for both product and strategy.
- Line vision: Deep understanding of retail, merchandising and product line structure strategy.
- Athlete Performance. Passion for rider performance; ability to translate rider feedback to problem statements.
- Demonstrated leadership: Experience leading groups of people towards a vision; ability to influence up/down/across.
- Systems Experience: Excellent Excel and other Microsoft Office skills, ability to quickly learn Flex PLM system.
- Time with Riders: Open to travel (international and domestic) 15-20% to spend time with core riders.
- Curiosity: Humble approach to team collaboration and a passion and curiosity to drive for real innovation.
- Resilience: Mindset that is biased for action, with the determination to take innovation to the completion.
- On-site Location: Role is located on-site, 3 days per week, in Morgan Hill, CA.
- 5+ Experience in product management or other related function.
- Highly developed presentation abilities.
- Prefer two years of experience in sporting goods industry.
- Deep understanding of retail and the corresponding opportunities and challenges.
- Candidates should have a solid understanding of design and development processes including timelines, manufacturing & delivery.
- Experience working with manufacturing such as foams, plastics, and additive processes.
- Curiosity to continually find a better way, humble approach to teamwork and a passion to aim for real innovation.
First and foremost, we are riders. We share the core belief that bikes help make the world a better place. From product development and operations, to finance and marketing - every role at Specialized contributes to a culture of sustainable, global growth, and innovation. Around the world, we work to recruit candidates who are passionate and curious with the belief that everyone has the potential to be a leader.
Senior Product Manager - Helmets
Preferred Qualifications:
- 5+ Experience in product management or other related function.
- Highly developed presentation abilities.
- Prefer two years of experience in sporting goods industry.
- Deep understanding of retail and the corresponding opportunities and challenges.
- Candidates should have a solid understanding of design and development processes including timelines, manufacturing & delivery.
- Experience working with manufacturing such as foams, plastics, and additive processes.
- Curiosity to continually find a better way, humble approach to teamwork and a passion to aim for real innovation.
About Specialized:
First and foremost, we are riders. We share the core belief that bikes help make the world a better place. From product development and operations, to finance and marketing - every role at Specialized contributes to a culture of sustainable, global growth, and innovation. Around the world, we work to recruit candidates who are passionate and curious with the belief that everyone has the potential to be a leader.
PAY
Below is a summary of compensation elements for this role at the company if based in the following locations:
California Base Pay Range: ($71,439 - $117,875 )
- At Specialized, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package and will depend on your work experience, skills, certification, and location.
Along with competitive pay, as a full-time teammate you are eligible for the following benefits beginning 30 days from date of hire. Benefits include:
- Along with competitive pay, as a full-time teammate you are eligible for the following benefits beginning 30 days from date of hire. Benefits include:
- PPO, EPO, HMO Kaiser and HDHP competitive Healthcare benefit plans offered (which include coverage for acupuncture and physical therapy)
- Dental and Vision plan
- Health Savings Account with a company paid HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High Deductible Aetna medical plan with HSA
- 401(k) Matching up to $5,000 plus company paid retirement plan fees
- Profit Sharing Plan
- Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
- Employee Assistance program
- Sick, Vacation and Paid Holidays
- Employee discounts and perk program
- Parental Leave
- Specialized bike for new baby
- Education and events reimbursement
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