Head of PMO

SALT & STONE; United States; On-site; USD 149,000 - 182,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance

401(k) with 3% match

Flexible Spending Account

Flex PTO

Company Discounts

Job summary

Salt & Stone is seeking a Head of PMO to lead the timeline discipline across product development, packaging, regulatory, operations, and commercialization. The role requires hands-on PM skills, a track record of building PM processes, and experience managing people, with direct report to the SVP, Product.

The Head of PMO will own critical path timelines end-to-end, partner daily with cross-functional teams, and establish rituals, tools, and governance for real visibility and timely launches.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in project management, program management, or product development operations.
• Experience building PM processes, tools, or infrastructure from the ground up.
• Strong cross-functional communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the master critical path across all active development projects, translating milestones into a single timeline.
• Build and maintain detailed project plans, launch calendars, and cost tracking for new products.
• Design and run monthly Critical Path Review with cross-functional teams to align on risks and decisions.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional communication

Data storytelling

Time management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

PMP or similar certification (nice to have)

Tools

Asana

Claude

Job description

Salt & Stone is skincare and self-care for a life lived in motion. Founded in Los Angeles, Salt & Stone is built on and from a connection to the natural world. We combine active ingredients from the sea and mountains with skin science and intoxicating fragrances, for a sensorial experience that soothes and restores.

At Salt & Stone, we are driven by a shared commitment to excellence and innovation. Our cultural values, Passionate Execution, Thoughtful Urgency, Competitive Mentality, Creative Brilliance, Empowered Collaboration, and Humbled Excellence, define who we are and how we work. We are dedicated to delivering exceptional products and experiences, operating with a sense of thoughtful urgency to ensure impactful progress while maintaining integrity in our decisions. Our competitive spirit fuels our ambition to be the best in our field, and we cultivate a culture where creativity thrives, valuing diverse perspectives and innovative thinking. We empower every team member to take ownership of their roles, fostering collaboration and trust throughout our organization. With a focus on excellence tempered by humility, we create an engaging and high-performing environment where everyone is encouraged to express themselves. Join us in our mission to be trailblazers in our industry, and help us make a meaningful impact together.

Position Overview:

Salt & Stone is looking to add a Head of PMO, a Director-level role, to build and run the timeline discipline that connects our product development, packaging, regulatory, operations, and commercialization work into one coordinated system. This is a role for someone who is equally comfortable in the weeds of an Asana timeline and in the room shaping how a growing organization plans, sequences, and delivers its launches, and who is ready to manage a direct report. The ideal candidate has deep hands-on experience managing complex, multi-workstream timelines in a beauty or personal care environment, a track record of building project management process and infrastructure rather than simply operating within it, prior experience managing people, and the credibility and communication skill to align Product Development, Packaging, Operations, Commercialization, Marketing and external manufacturing and fragrance partners around a single source of truth for launch timing.

Reporting to the SVP, Product, the Head of PMO will serve as the functional lead for project management at Salt & Stone, with one direct report, the Commercialization Director. This person will own critical path timelines end to end across the product portfolio, hold real decision rights on sequencing trade-offs across workstreams, partner daily with cross-functional teams to keep launches, reformulations, and tech transfers on schedule, and stand up the rituals, tools, and governance that give the broader team real visibility into what is on track, what is at risk, and what needs a decision.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Own the master critical path across all active development projects, translating formula, packaging, regulatory, and manufacturing milestones into a single, living timeline for the business.
• Build and maintain detailed project plans, launch calendars, resourcing views, and project-level spend tracking for new product development, line extensions, reformulations, and tech transfers, flagging sequencing conflicts or cost trends before they become launch risk. This hands-on ownership of the timeline remains a core, ongoing part of the role.
• Design, launch, and run monthly Critical Path Review, a cross-functional forum that brings Product Development, Packaging, Regulatory, Operations, Commercialization, Marketing together to walk the portfolio timeline, surface risks, and align on trade-offs and decisions.
• Identify bottlenecks and delays early, and act as the primary escalation point and hold final recommendation when a timeline is at risk, bringing the right people together quickly to drive mitigation plans and decisions rather than letting a delay sit unaddressed.
• Own and continuously refine artwork change governance, project intake, and registration sequencing in partnership with Regulatory, Packaging Development, and Commercialization.
• Communicate timeline status, risks, budget and spend against plan, and decisions to the SVP, Product and other leadership stakeholders, including building the reporting and dashboards that give an accurate, real-time read on portfolio health and launch readiness without requiring a status meeting.
• Serve as the functional lead for project management at Salt & Stone and the primary point of cross-functional coordination across Product Development, Packaging Development, Regulatory, Operations, Commercialization, Marketing, and external manufacturing and fragrance partners, setting the standard for how the organization plans, sequences, and prioritizes its work, and serving as the person it looks to for how a project should be run.
• Manage the Commercialization Director as a direct report: hold them accountable to timeline commitments and prioritization against the broader portfolio, ensure their workstream stays in sync with the master timeline, and help surface trade-offs early. Commercial decisions, including sourcing, vendor negotiation, and COGS management remain fully owned by Commercialization.
• Establish the project management infrastructure Salt & Stone does not yet have, owning Asana as the system of record: build standardized timeline templates, milestone frameworks, and dependency tracking, and continuously improve how the cross-functional team scopes, stages, and uses the tool for new projects.
• Continuously evaluate and improve how the team plans and executes projects, retiring what is not working and introducing new processes where gaps exist.
• Maintain institutional knowledge of past project timelines and outcomes to sharpen future planning assumptions and lead times.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience in project management, program management, or product development operations, ideally within beauty, personal care, or another consumer products category.
• At least 2-3 years of experience directly managing people.
• Demonstrated experience building project management processes, tools, or infrastructure from the ground up, not just operating within an existing system.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience; PMP or similar project management certification is a plus but not required.
• Strong working knowledge of the beauty or CPG product development lifecycle, including formulation, stability testing, packaging development, regulatory review, and manufacturing.
• Comfortable using Asana and Claude is required. Deep expertise in Asana, including building and administering timeline templates, dependencies, and portfolio-level reporting, along with fluency using Claude to support planning and communication work, is strongly preferred.
• Excellent cross-functional communication skills, organization, and attention to detail.
• A commitment to fostering a culture of support and accountability.
• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
• You are comfortable using data to tell a story and can speak confidently to the metrics of your role.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment and flexibility to adjust plans as needed.
• Base Annual Salary of $165k
• Annual Performance Bonus
• Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• 401(k) with 3% match
• Flex PTO
• Company Discounts

Additional Information:

Salt + Stone provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.