Sr Project Manager

Husqvarna Water Corp.; North Salt Lake (UT); On-site; USD 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Husqvarna Water Corp. is seeking a highly organized Senior Project Manager to establish and drive project management as a new functional capability in the organization.

This foundational role will build a PM structure to add value across processes and teams, ensuring clarity, efficiency, and accessibility of work. The role involves leading cross-functional product development projects from ideation to commercialization, guiding stage-gate milestones, governance, and executive visibility.

Qualifications

• 7-10 years of experience managing product development projects, preferably in consumer goods.
• Experience leading projects through a stage-gate development process.
• Experience developing or maturing project management processes, governance models, and best practices.
• Experience managing complex product development programs involving hardware, firmware, software, cloud, and mobile applications.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and leadership skills.
• Experience working in cross-functional teams including R&D, marketing, and supply chain.
• Familiarity with regulatory and compliance requirements for consumer products.

Responsibilities

• Influence strategic product development decisions by providing data-driven analysis, scenario planning, and recommendations related to project priorities, resource allocation, timelines, and commercialization readiness.
• Facilitate alignment between business, product, and development leadership to support portfolio objectives.
• Lead and manage high-profile product development projects from concept ideation through commercialization, applying a structured stage-gate methodology to ensure projects meet scope, schedule, cost, and quality objectives.
• Own progression through each gate by coordinating deliverables, reviews, and approvals.
• Lead cross-functional execution across engineering, industrial design, software, marketing, sourcing, quality, regulatory, and operations teams.
• Establish project governance, drive accountability for commitments, manage interdepartmental dependencies, and facilitate decision-making to keep teams aligned on priorities, milestones, and business objectives.
• Partner closely with software and firmware product owners to develop and maintain integrated product delivery plans that align hardware, firmware, mobile application, cloud, and commercialization activities.
• Manage cross-team dependencies, resource constraints, and critical path schedules to ensure coordinated execution across multiple development organizations and successful on-time product launches.
• Provide executive-level project visibility through comprehensive program reporting, schedule management, risk assessments, and milestone tracking.
• Communicate and document project health, resource needs, key decisions, and trade-offs to stakeholders while ensuring alignment with strategic business objectives.
• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate project risks related to cost, schedule, technical feasibility, supply chain, and quality.
• Drive issue resolution through data-driven problem-solving and escalated critical risks or decisions when appropriate to maintain project momentum.
• Manage project timelines, budgets, and resources by tracking progress against plans, forecasting impacts, and adjusting priorities as needed to keep development efforts aligned with business objectives and financial targets.
• Lead the advancement of project management capabilities across the organization by establishing best practices, improving stage-gate governance, standardizing project reporting, and implementing tools and processes that improve execution and organizational transparency.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional leadership

Data-driven analysis

Stakeholder communication

Risk management

Education

PMP Certification (preferred)

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a highly organized Senior Project Manager to help establish and drive project management as a new functional capability within our organization. This is a foundational role for building a project management structure that will add value within existing processes and team dynamics, keeping work clear, efficient, and accessible for everyone involved.

Responsibilities

• Influence strategic product development decisions by providing data-driven analysis, scenario planning, and recommendations related to project priorities, resource allocation, timelines, and commercialization readiness.
• Facilitate alignment between business, product, and development leadership to support portfolio objectives.
• Lead and manage high-profile product development projects from concept ideation through commercialization, applying a structured stage-gate methodology to ensure projects meet scope, schedule, cost, and quality objectives.
• Own progression through each gate by coordinating deliverables, reviews, and approvals.
• Lead cross-functional execution across engineering, industrial design, software, marketing, sourcing, quality, regulatory, and operations teams.
• Establish project governance, drive accountability for commitments, manage interdepartmental dependencies, and facilitate decision-making to keep teams aligned on priorities, milestones, and business objectives.
• Partner closely with software and firmware product owners to develop and maintain integrated product delivery plans that align hardware, firmware, mobile application, cloud, and commercialization activities.
• Manage cross-team dependencies, resource constraints, and critical path schedules to ensure coordinated execution across multiple development organizations and successful on-time product launches.
• Provide executive-level project visibility through comprehensive program reporting, schedule management, risk assessments, and milestone tracking.
• Communicate and document project health, resource needs, key decisions, and trade-offs to stakeholders while ensuring alignment with strategic business objectives.
• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate project risks related to cost, schedule, technical feasibility, supply chain, and quality.
• Drive issue resolution through data-driven problem-solving and escale critical risks or decisions when appropriate to maintain project momentum.
• Manage project timelines, budgets, and resources by tracking progress against plans, forecasting impacts, and adjusting priorities as needed to keep development efforts aligned with business objectives and financial targets.
• Lead the advancement of project management capabilities across the organization by establishing best practices, improving stage-gate governance, standardizing project reporting, and implementing tools and processes that improve execution and organizational transparency.

Qualifications

• PMP Certification is preferred.
• 7-10 years of experience managing product development projects, preferably in consumer goods.
• Experience in leading projects through a stage-gate development process.
• Experience developing or maturing project management processes, governance models, and organizational best practices.
• Experience managing complex product development programs involving hardware, firmware, software, cloud, and mobile applications.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and leadership skills.
• Experience working in cross-functional teams including R&D, marketing, and supply chain.
• Familiarity with regulatory and compliance requirements for consumer products.

Equal Employment Opportunity

We are an equal opportunity employer and celebrate diversity. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and candidates.