Marketing Project Manager

About Us

Peak Design makes radical, meticulously-engineered gear for detail-obsessed people. Our backpacks, travel bags, camera gear, and phone accessories are used dang-near everywhere. If you’ve visited Machu Picchu, Tokyo, or an REI store in the last 10 years, you’ve been within ogling distance of a Peak Design product.

Alongside our award-winning gear is a brand that truly reflects who we are as people—passionate about design, deeply caring about our environmental and social impact, unafraid to speak up, radically transparent, and generally down to clown. Whether we’re explaining a product , running a sale , launching a nonprofit , sponsoring a film , or razzing the biggest company on Earth , we do it with our trademark honesty, warmth, and wit. Through our products and our brand, we aim to create delight, and leave this world better than how we found it.

About The Role

We're looking for an organized, flexible, in-the-weeds project manager who can translate marketing strategies into concrete projects and tasks, and drive that work through execution. Pretty straightforward, right? Well, we’ve got an unorthodox way of getting things done here, and we need somebody who can thrive in our culture that embraces uncertainty, ad-hoc adjustments, and last-minute pivots.

Our marketing team has a ton going on—strategizing, creating, and executing (in parallel) an endless stream of ideas, campaigns, and product launches throughout the year. We are essentially an in-house creative agency that maintains the Peak Design brand, oversees our direct sales and marketing channels, and serves the needs of the rest of our company. We need your type-a tendencies, stellar communication skills, and project management know-how to help keep this ship tidy and moving in the right direction.

What You’ll Do:

• Translate strategy and ideas into actionable plans. We have many projects, and many types of projects, all happening in parallel. Using Asana as the primary platform, you will oversee the execution of this work, ensuring scope, deliverables, and timelines are defined, assigned, and understood by those involved. You’ll do this across all marketing functions, including advertising, social media, email/sms, PR & influencer marketing, web design, visual design, photo/video, and environment design.
• Be a taskmaster. All that aforementioned work needs to actually get done, and sometimes that requires a nudge to the person doing it, or investigation to find and remove blockers, or redelegation of the task itself. This role is part enforcer, part empathizer, part problem-solver. You’ll be doing lots of check-ins, and hosting lots of status meetings.
• Expertly juggle a diverse range of simultaneous marketing projects. From a giveaway next week to a product launch next year and everything in between, you will be the expert on what’s going on, when milestones are, who needs to do what, and when scope or timelines need to be adjusted.
• Be a proactive conduit between marketing and other teams at our company. When other teams request deliverables from marketing, it’ll go through you. You’ll make sure the requests are well articulated, and you’ll ensure they are routed to the right manager or individual contributor. You’ll also reach out proactively to other departments to ensure their needs aren’t being overlooked. If communication gaps persist, you’ll raise the flag and work to create a long-term solution.
• Manage the resources of our team. We often bite off more than we can chew, and we don’t necessarily think it’s a bad thing. That said, we need someone to balance ambition with reality and keep us honest about what is achievable.
• Be an active participant in our work of ‘engineering delight.’ It’s just a cool way of saying, ‘We want a team player’. Strategize with us, come to video shoots, and sit in on meetings. You are a part of the machine now.
• Have a gosh damn blast doing it. We have worked hard to create a company where we enjoy doing the work we do, and your job should be no exception . It can certainly be challenging work, but it is also immensely rewarding. This is a place where you can feel incredibly proud of the work you do and the people you do it with, and then take two weeks off using an unlimited vacation to ride horses across the Mongolian Steppe and not answer a single email until you get back. Or whatever you do in your free time.
  
  

In doing all this, you’ll have the best co-pilot imaginable: your manager—our Senior GTM Manager—who essentially wrote the book on marketing PMing at our company. The two of you will work hand-in-hand to divy up projects and keep this whole ship moving at full clip in the right direction.

About You

• At least 3 years of experience in a Project Management role as part of a marketing team or other business unit. OR, equivalent experience in a similar role that demonstrates your familiarity with our type of work and your ability to herd cats.
• Exceptionally organized, thorough, detail-oriented.
• Super-duper relational. You’re going to be all up in many people’s business, and occasionally, you’re going to have to push, nag, or advocate. To do that effectively, you need to be great at building trust and showing empathy.
• Cool under pressure. Things get hectic, especially around launches, and the unexpected is almost assured to happen when you bring new products to life.
• Adept at planning, scheduling, and re-planning/re-scheduling. We move fast and nimbly and value the ability to pivot at any point in the game.
• Strong ability to run efficient, organized meetings.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and ability to distill large amounts of data for wider review.
• Confident. Every mind at Peak is open, but ideas need to be advocated for before they are adopted.
• Strong understanding of Asana or similar software.
• Familiarity with Slack or similar communications software.
• Located in San Francisco or Austin preferred, but elsewhere is okay, too.
• If not based at HQ, ability to travel to San Francisco (or other destinations) at least 6-8 times a year.
  
  

$80,000 - $115,000 a year

Compensation

Final compensation offers may vary from the range listed above. We consider the skills and experience you bring, market data for your role, level, and location, and internal equitability across these areas as defined by our compensation framework.

What We Offer

• 100% covered employee premiums for medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options
• Life/AD&D, long-term disability, and short-term disability coverage
• Generous mental health and fertility health reimbursement options
• 401(k) plan with employer matching
• Unlimited PTO policy, 12 paid company holidays, and flexible work schedules
• 100% paid parental leave
• Peak Design product and exclusive industry discounts
• Monthly cell phone reimbursement
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Annual career development stipend
• Charitable donation program with employer matching
• Quarterly onsite or offsite collaboration weeks with the whole Peak Design team
  
  

WHY US?

Thanks to the folks at Outside Magazine, we can tell you that Peak Design is an objectively great place to work. Why? We provide opportunities to go deep in your craft, work both autonomously and collaboratively, drive your professional growth, and recharge with flexible Fridays and unlimited paid time off -- the saucy list of perks and benefits goes on. So, how do we maintain this exquisite way of working while also pulling off an exceptionally thoughtful brand and product line? A close-knit culture that values transparency, community, trust, and questioning the status quo.

Many employees find the way we run our business to be radically different from what they’ve experienced elsewhere. You might call it the opposite of micromanagement: employees are often expected to set their own priorities and roadmaps for their areas of the business. Who thrives here? Self-starters. Question-askers. People who make their own to-do lists. Folks who can do a little bit of everything. People who aren’t afraid to get their hands dirty with nitty-gritty details in order to see a vision through.

If you prefer to work in a more traditional corporate environment, Peak Design might not be the place for you. But if you’re pickin’ up what we’re putting down, we look forward to hearing from you!

DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION & BELONGING

At Peak Design we believe a diverse team is an innovative team and something worth celebrating. A range of perspectives and backgrounds creates a stronger and more creative work environment (not to mention more fun). We’re committed to equality and inclusivity across race, gender, age, religion, identity, and experience.

Some candidates may see a long list of job requirements and feel discouraged because they don’t match every single bullet point – we strongly encourage you to apply anyway! If what we do resonates with you, and you feel excited and able to contribute, we’re equally stoked for the opportunity to engage with you.

ACCOMODATIONS

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