Athletic Greens

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Job Description: • Design, operate, and evolve AG1’s Stage Gate governance framework • Lead gate reviews focused on decisions and readiness; document approvals, conditions, owners, and closure • Maintain gate decision records and follow conditional approvals through closure • Develop standards for locked decisions and controls for material post-approval changes • Apply proportionate gate requirements based on product risk and complexity • Identify decisions requiring executive intervention and recommend paths forward • Integrate NPD plans across Product Development, Packaging, Procurement, Supply Chain, Quality, Regulatory, Finance, Marketing, Retail, DTC, and International • Establish critical-path plans, lead times, dependencies, handoffs, launch baselines, and forecasts • Provide visibility into project status, timing, risks, resource demands, and launch readiness • Coordinate commercialization requirements across formula, claims, packaging, artwork, sourcing, master data, production, and channel launches • Define manufacturing, inventory, retailer, and DTC launch-readiness expectations • Surface timing, cost, and execution impacts of late changes • Operationalize AG1’s Stage Gate redesign across active launches • Simplify duplicative requirements while protecting critical controls • Create a reliable system of record for decisions, versions, deliverables, owners, milestones, and changes • Establish an exception framework for retailer-specific requests • Define process-effectiveness measures, train teams, and drive adoption Requirements: • 10+ years in CPG new product development, innovation operations, commercialization, or related cross-functional leadership • Ideally experience with food, beverages, or nutritional products • Experience owning or materially redesigning a formal Stage Gate or comparable NPD governance framework • Experience launching physical consumer products • Understanding of formulation, regulatory/quality, packaging, supply chain, manufacturing, and commercial interdependencies • Strong judgment in setting governance standards and leading decision forums • Experience navigating cross-functional trade-offs • Ability to influence senior stakeholders without direct authority • Experience implementing change and turning complex workflows into practical operating routines • Excellent integrated planning, risk management, facilitation, and executive communication skills • Experience facilitating executive gate decisions, tracking conditions of approval, and leading change control • Experience spanning mature CPG processes and high-growth environments preferred • Experience with beverage or supplement categories and retail, DTC, Amazon, or international launches preferred • PMP certification or equivalent formal project/program management training preferred • Familiarity with PLM, NPD portfolio tools, and process excellence methodologies preferred Benefits: • Competitive compensation and performance-based incentive plans • A 100% remote working environment (excluding Laboratory positions) • Paid holidays • Company-wide reset and reflect days • Unlimited PTO (based on your country of residence) • In-person team meetups for collaboration, team building and productivity • Access to AG1 products and branded swag • Monthly telecom stipend for eligible team members • Benefits and insurances as required by law, based on country of residence • Stock option allocation for eligible roles