Product Operations Project Manager
Are you the kind of person who color-codes their calendar and gets excited about creative chaos? We’re looking for a Product Operations Project Manager to join our cheerful and fast-moving team – someone who thrives on structure, loves a good timeline, and can steer complex product projects from idea to delivery.
In this role, you’ll be at the heart of the action, making sure our socks (and everything else we make) move through the pipeline on time, on budget, and with creative magic intact. You’ll bring clarity to complexity, align teams, and make sure no detail is left behind. If you love connecting the dots between people, process, and product – and get a kick out of challenging old ways of working – this one’s for you.
You will be part of a small team of project managers, reporting to Head of Marketing & Product Design Operations.
What you'll do
Own the full project lifecycle
- Manage incoming product requests, ensuring feasibility, clarity and timelines are aligned with capacity and business priorities
- Set up project plans in Asana, run kik-off and check-in meetings, and coordinate with Design, Product Development, Sales and external partners
- Lead weekly status meetings, track project progress and highlight risks early.
Drive smart ways of working
- Question how we've done things, challenge inefficiencies and propose better ways to plan, brief and deliver
- Take ownership of project templates, approval flows and planning routines- not just maintaining them, but constantly improving them.
- Bring proactive mindset and never wait for someone else to raise the red flag- you are always three steps ahead.
Keep everyone in sync
- Act as the go-to person for product-related projects across departments
- Ensure consistent including licensors and collaborators
Plan for the big picture
- Build and manage seasonal master timelines across teams and tools (Asana, Google Sheets
- Lead cross-functional planning workshops each season to align priorities and build smooth production workflows.
- Coordinate resource and capacity planning to support smart decision making.
Who you are
You are a confident planner who thrives on being in the know. You don't just love a checklist, you love making the checklist better. You're a natural at turning ambiguity into structure and you bring teams along with you.
You'll fit right in if you are
- A natural project manager with 3+ years of experience in a similar role, ideally in fashion, retail or lifestyle brands.
- Someone who knows their way around Asana (or similar tools) and can turn chaos into clarity
- Skilled in working with spreadsheets and has experience wokring with large scale and complex end-to-end timelines.
- Always questioning and looking for smarter ways to work, then rolling up your sleeves to make change happen.
- Comfortable working with licensors and external partners, and confident in stakeholder communications.
- A proactive problem-solver who enjoys cross-functional teamwork and knows how to motivate without micromanaging
- Detail-obsessed but flexible- you keep your eye on the timeline without losing sight of the people.
Join us and help make every step of the product journey as joyful and bold as our designs. Your superpower? Turning creative energy into smooth execution- and making it better every season. Let's make great things happen- together.
Location: Stockholm, hybrid
Seniority: Mid level
Duration: Full time, 6 month probationary period
Team: Marketing & Product Design Operations
- Locations
- Stockholm
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
Stockholm
Workplace & Culture
When we’re not getting the job done, we're all about having fun! We have offices in Stockholm, NYC and Munich and they are all decked out with quirky decor.
Each month we throw afterwork drinks and we often plan team activities to keep morale high. We believe work should be fun, and we do everything we can to make sure our employees feel the same.
About Happy Socks
Happy Socks aims to spread happiness by turning an everyday essential into a colorful design piece. The business is built on foundations of rigid quality standards, craftsmanship and creativity that are transferred into the products by a talented team of creatives. The products feature endless variations of models and designs, using a broad spectrum of color combinations and original patterns.
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