Senior Product Calendar Architect (Remote/Hybrid)

Pact; United States; Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel covered

Job summary

Pact is seeking an experienced calendar program lead to design and implement two parallel timelines for fashion product development.

The role requires coordinating across Design, Development, Materials, Merchandising, Planning, Sourcing, and Wholesale, and delivering a realistic baseline calendar with two new paths Phase 1 runs ~12 weeks with onsite time in Boulder and travel covered; you will interview teams, map current rules, and define ownership for each milestone.

Qualifications

• 8+ years running calendars and cross-team process in apparel, footwear, or consumer products.
• Experience building fast/chase calendars at companies with existing traditional calendars.
• Ability to push back on exceptions from leadership while remaining welcome in discussions.
• Knowledge of product development, design, materials, sourcing, planning, and wholesale timing.
• Strong attention to days, rules, and dependencies in a complex timeline.
• Ability to build capacity models from messy data and explain assumptions.

Responsibilities

• Interview teams across Design, Development, Materials, Merchandising, Planning, Sourcing, and Wholesale to baseline how the calendar works.
• Map the current timeline against reality and identify real vs habitual rules.
• Assess how many styles can be developed per season and align with Design and Materials.
• Create week-by-week workback calendars showing overloads and the impact of two new paths.
• Design the fast path with checkpoints, owners, and shortest viable timeline.
• Design the long path including fit rounds, material development, and vendor commitments.
• Build a mechanism to fill open slots with clear signals, owners, and response times.
• Coordinate with Wholesale to align booked windows and trade show dates.
• Develop calendars with Design and Merchandising so handoffs are owned and tracked.
• Prepare handoff so there is an owner for every checkpoint and a calendar that lasts beyond the project.

Skills

Calendars & cross-team process

Apparel knowledge

Wholesale experience

Vendor coordination

Stakeholder management

Attention to details

Job description

Pact is seeking an experienced calendar program lead to design and implement two parallel timelines for fashion product development.

The role requires coordinating across Design, Development, Materials, Merchandising, Planning, Sourcing, and Wholesale, and delivering a realistic baseline calendar with two new paths Phase 1 runs ~12 weeks with onsite time in Boulder and travel covered; you will interview teams, map current rules, and define ownership for each milestone.