Senior Manager, Product Operations & Commercialization

Ketone-IQ•Los Angeles, CA

About The Position

About Ketone-IQ Born in elite performance and trusted by Tour de France cyclists, Olympic athletes, Navy SEALs, and high-performers across every major league, Ketone-IQ is redefining what energy means. From the frontlines to finish lines, Ketone-IQ fuels physical and cognitive endurance. We’re not just building a brand; we’re leading the global ketone movement and reshaping the energy category. In 2019, the U.S. Department of Defense SOCOM awarded us a $6M contract to pioneer next-generation ketone fuels, marking the start of our mission to democratize elite energy. Ketone-IQ is High-Performance Energy. We’re scaling fast, innovating faster, and unlocking new frontiers in nutrition, biotech, and human performance. We’re changing the way people fuel and rapidly expanding as we lead the ketone movement. The Role We’re looking for a Senior Manager, Product Operations & Commercialization to own the connective tissue between Product, Supply Chain, Marketing, Sales, and external partners. This role is equal parts project leader, systems builder, and operator — ensuring that products move from concept to market smoothly, sustainably, and at scale. This is a hands-on role for someone who loves complexity, thrives in cross-functional environments, and takes pride in building processes that make teams faster and better.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in product operations, project management, commercialization, or adjacent roles within CPG, food & beverage, wellness, or regulated consumer products.
Proven experience leading cross-functional product and packaging initiatives from concept through launch.
Demonstrated ability to manage external partners (co-manufacturers, packaging vendors, creative production partners).
Strong comfort owning packaging projects (even if not a packaging engineer) — including sourcing, vendor qualification, sustainability trade-offs, and cost considerations.
Experience working in fast-growing, ambiguous environments where priorities evolve.

Responsibilities

Cross-Functional Product and Project Execution: Own integrated product execution across all physical Product at Ketone-IQ — including consumables, packaging, retail merchandising, and branded materials — guiding project initiatives from concept through commercialization.
Define and manage launch plans, dependencies, and decision gates to balance speed, cost (COGS), quality, and operational feasibility.
Drive alignment across Product, Marketing, Sales, Creative, Quality, and Supply Chain, ensuring clarity of ownership and momentum across complex initiatives.
Ensure downstream needs of GTM Teams (Sales, E-commerce, and Marketing — e.g., product pages, creative assets, sales materials, and operational readiness) are considered early and sequenced appropriately.
Partner with stakeholders post-launch to monitor Product performance metrics and identify optimization opportunities, upgrades, cost-savings, and operational improvements.
Systems, Process & Operating Rhythm: Design and maintain scalable systems for project tracking, documentation, and cross-functional visibility (e.g., Notion; PJM tools like Asana, Smartsheets, Instagantt, Google Suite).
Build clear, repeatable workflows for product development, specification management, packaging changes, and commercialization that enable teams to move faster without sacrificing rigor.
Continuously identify friction points and operational gaps. Evolve processes to improve execution quality and decision-making as the business scales.
Packaging and Physical Goods Commercialization: Lead RFPs and supplier sourcing/evaluation for packaging, merchandising, merch, and other physical components, assessing options across cost, quality, scalability, sustainability, and risk.
Partner closely with Quality, Creative, and Supply Chain to ensure new components and vendors are properly qualified, prototyped, press-checked (if printed), and produced to quality first time and at scale.
Own primary product packaging holistically — including development, component changes, custom development, sustainability improvements, and vendor qualifications.
Support onboarding of new partners and transitions between vendors to ensure continuity and quality.
Strategic and Special Initiatives: Jump into high-priority initiatives as needed — especially where structure, coordination, and execution are required to unblock progress.
Act as a thought partner to the VP of Product on how to scale product execution, operating cadence, and cross-functional collaboration as the business grows.
Help embed sustainability and broader stewardship impact considerations into decision-making, Product pipeline development and manufacturing, reporting, and KPI tracking.