Research & Development Project Manager
New York
HYPEBEAST – Projects /
Full-time /
Hypebeast Ltd. started from a sneaker website founded by Kevin Ma in 2005 to a publicly listed media company in 2016. With a total reach of over 44.6M users across all platforms, The media group boasts a global readership across Asia Pacific, North America, Europe and more, with the flagship platform available in five languages. The group has expanded its publishing brands to a wider scope in recent years, encompassing Hypebeast and its multiple content distribution platforms, HBX, our e-commerce and retail platform, and Hypemaker, our global agency.
Hypebeast Ltd. has been featured in Forbes’ “Asia’s 200 Best Under A Billion” in 2020.
Responsibililties:
- Support the larger company goals through research and PM of new business initiatives, event activations, branded collaborations & R&D business products
- Create and maintain a long and short term R&D project schedule based on project load and resource availability
- Update the R&D schedule as needed based on changes that might impact schedule
- Support the Associate Director on behalf of the project to ensure that company priorities are driven forward with urgency and timeliness
- Support the Associate Director on behalf of the project to make better decisions more quickly, by providing data and insights, creating frameworks, and outlining possible scenarios
- Find creative ways to help our teams connect with our objectives and visualize/communicate our successes both internally and to senior leadership, including presentations and reports
- Problem solve, coordinate, and drive cross-functional initiatives
- Help facilitate overall roadmap planning: cross-functional initiative into specific work streams, help teams define the scope, deliverables, and schedules, and coordinate activation across multiple teams for multiple stakeholders
- Assist in defining goals & KPIs early in each project and create systems to track those KPIs throughout
- Assist in driving consistency across project methodologies and approaches, and simultaneously manage multiple projects to completion
- Proactively manage resource needs by driving conversations on current and upcoming needs with resource management and discipline leads
- Define, manage, and mitigate risks on projects; taking a proactive approach to solve any issues before they come up, or manage as they arise
- Conduct market/feasibility research & project/event proposals
- Provide clear administrative documentation of all projects
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in Project Managing in a Business Development setting
- Proven ability to assist on large scale, complex projects end-to-end
- Effectively handle multiple priorities simultaneously to meet all deadlines
- Project development and management experience with developing strategies, operational plans, and compelling presentations
- Passion for building brands and challenging status quo with a cultural awareness that advises key concepts and emerging trends
- Comfortability navigating through ambiguity while continuing to set objectives and goals
