Senior Product Manager

Cervelo, USA; Aliso Viejo (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Bike purchase program

Great work environment

Job summary

Cervélo USA in Aliso Viejo, CA seeks a Senior Product Manager to lead strategy, development, and lifecycle of key bicycle products, partnering with Engineering, Design, Marketing, Sales, and Finance to deliver performance and quality targets.

You will own product vision from concept through end of life, define requirements and business cases, and mentor teams while balancing cost, timing, and consumer value in a fast-paced, cycling-focused environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in product management, product development, or a closely related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience bringing physical products from concept through production and launch.
• Strong understanding of product-development processes and cross-functional NPI.
• Experience working closely with Engineering, Design, Manufacturing, Quality, and Marketing.
• Demonstrated ability to define product requirements and make product-level tradeoffs.
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority.
• Strong organizational and project leadership skills.
• Ability to balance consumer needs, product performance, business objectives, cost, quality, and timing.
• Passion for cycling and strong understanding of bicycle products, technology, and the cycling consumer.

Responsibilities

• Own product strategy and vision based on consumer, market, competitive, and technology insights.
• Lead product development from concept to launch to meet performance, quality, cost, and timing goals.
• Define product requirements and priorities and make tradeoffs that maximize consumer and business value.
• Own product financials, including business cases, cost, pricing, margin, and commercial performance.
• Lead product positioning and commercialization in partnership with Marketing, Sales, and Commercial teams.
• Manage the product lifecycle from launch through optimization, refresh, and end of life.
• Drive cross-functional alignment and decision-making across Product, Engineering, Design, Quality, and Commercial teams.
• Elevate Product Management practices through process improvement, best practices, and team mentorship.

Skills

Product management

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder communication

Influence without authority

Cycling knowledge

Job description

ABOUT US:

Cervélo exists to Make Riders Faster. You'll see our bikes on the road, on the trail, and under some of the most elite athletes in the world. We're a small group of passionate riders, dedicated to delivering the best bikes in the world. We're headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California, a sweet corner of Orange County where you can ride on and off road year-round. Cervélo bikes have won all three Grand Tours (the first bike in history to do so), our ambitions have never been higher, and we're looking for talented, driven people to join our team.

ABOUT YOU:

The Senior Product Manager is responsible for the strategy, definition, development, launch, and lifecycle of assigned products or product categories. This role serves as the product owner and consumer advocate, translating market, rider, competitive, and business insights into compelling products that deliver against the brand's performance, commercial, and strategic objectives. The Senior Product Manager owns the product from concept through end of life, establishing the product vision, requirements, business case, and priorities while leading cross-functional teams through development and commercialization. This role works closely with Engineering, Industrial Design, Marketing, Sales, Operations, Quality, and Finance and is expected to influence decisions across the organization without relying on direct authority. The Senior Product Manager leads complex, high-impact products with broad strategic ownership, making critical decisions and aligning cross-functional teams around a common product vision. This role will require you to be onsite at Cervelo's HQ in Aliso Viejo, CA

WHAT DOES YOUR DAY LOOK LIKE?

Own product strategy and vision based on consumer, market, competitive, and technology insights. Lead product development from concept to launch to meet performance, quality, cost, and timing goals. Define product requirements and priorities and make tradeoffs that maximize consumer and business value. Own product financials, including business cases, cost, pricing, margin, and commercial performance. Lead product positioning and commercialization in partnership with Marketing, Sales, and Commercial teams. Manage the product lifecycle from launch through optimization, refresh, and end of life. Drive cross-functional alignment and decision-making across Product, Engineering, Design, Quality, and Commercial teams. Elevate Product Management practices through process improvement, best practices, and team mentorship.

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE:

• 6+ years of experience in product management, product development, or a closely related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience bringing physical products from concept through production and launch.
• Strong understanding of product-development processes and cross-functional NPI.
• Experience working closely with Engineering, Design, Manufacturing, Quality, and Marketing.
• Demonstrated ability to define product requirements and make product-level tradeoffs.
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority.
• Strong organizational and project leadership skills.
• Ability to balance consumer needs, product performance, business objectives, cost, quality, and timing.
• Passion for cycling and strong understanding of bicycle products, technology, and the cycling consumer.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

Ability to read and comprehend and explain documents in English. Effectively communicate, verbally and in writing, in English.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS FOR THE ROLE:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the overall duties and responsibilities of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable otherwise qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the overall duties and responsibilities. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use of hands and fingers, handle, or feel, reach above head with hands and arms, lift, push, climb, stoop, kneel, crouch, and/or crawl, pull, talk and hear. The employee must lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Vision may be corrected within normal range. The noise level in the work environment is quiet.

SALARY PAY RANGE:

This compensation package will be dependent on experience, qualifications, industry experience and the interview with a potential range of up to $135,000. At Cervélo we have had one mission from the very beginning - design and engineer bikes to MAKE RIDERS FASTER. In our highly competitive industry, we need the right people to succeed. We are constantly in search of talented individuals who have a passion for performance to join our team. We reward great work and encourage you to define your career at Cervélo. Find your passion and grow with us. We offer competitive compensation, Health benefits, Bike purchase program and an amazing work environment.