Manager, Product Marketing

Manager, Product Marketing

Location: Irvine, CA

Onsite Flexibility: Onsite

Contract Details

• Position Type: Contract
• Contract Duration: 6 months (covering leave, with potential to extend)
• Pay Rate: $68.00 / Hour (USD)
• Shift / Schedule: Days (flexible hours; 8:00 AM-5:00 PM or 9:00 AM-6:00 PM - start time not to exceed 10:00 AM)
• Work Authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Job Summary

You start by gaining a clear view of program status - reviewing key metrics, tracking progress across multiple projects, and aligning cross-functional teams on priorities, risks, and next steps. From there, you dive into active programs, working closely with engineering, operations, and supply chain to resolve challenges, manage dependencies, and keep execution on track. Throughout the day, you engage with customers and internal stakeholders, providing clear updates, aligning expectations, and translating needs into actionable plans while supporting broader business priorities such as opportunity evaluation and profitability. You continuously drive alignment, remove blockers, and ensure accountability across teams, while maintaining structured tracking, closing action items, and preparing for upcoming milestones - all with a disciplined, organized approach that keeps complex programs moving forward.

This role goes beyond project coordination - driving measurable business and customer outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Deliver Customer Success

• Ensure optical system programs are delivered on time and to quality expectations
• Strengthen customer trust through responsiveness and clear communication
• Resolve issues with structured root cause and prevention

Drive Execution Excellence

• Bring structure and clarity to complex, cross-functional programs
• Improve planning, tracking, and on-time delivery
• Turn ambiguity into actionable, prioritized plans

Strengthen Cross-Functional Performance

• Align engineering, operations, and supply chain on priorities and delivery
• Drive accountability without direct authority
• Improve communication, decision speed, and execution consistency

Build Scalable Processes

• Implement structured tools, tracking, and standard work
• Improve cycle time, yield, and delivery performance
• Establish repeatable processes that scale with growth

Required Skills

• Excellent organizational skills and experience managing project tasks (tracking, organizing, updating, and chasing)
• Strong Excel skills (intermediate to advanced)
• Entry- to mid-level PowerPoint experience - updating existing slides (not creating from scratch)
• Ability to collect information and present it clearly; experience taking meeting notes and capturing action items to update project trackers (Excel)

Preferred Skills

• Program/project management experience

Work Environment / Physical Requirements

• 90% of support will be in the Bay Area (PST); remaining 10% is Asia (China & Singapore)
• Will work closely with the hiring manager, supporting programs by ensuring tasks are completed and updating reports and presentation templates (task-driven/focused role)
• 80% of work involves collecting information and making it presentable, taking meeting notes, and capturing action items to update project trackers (Excel)
• Onsite 5 days per week; potential for 1 day work-from-home option may be granted later
• 40 hours per week; no mandatory overtime

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans
• 401k Retirement Fund

About GTT

GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, a Native American-owned company in Alaska. We highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces and support Fortune 500 organizations across banking, financial services, technology, life sciences, biotech, utilities, and retail sectors throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Job Number: 26-08841