Who We Are

Mockingbird is a DTC-first baby gear brand known for understanding today’s parents, creating thoughtfully designed products, and providing above & beyond customer service. In a sea of old school baby brands, we’re proud to stand out, offering families not just better products but also a better overall experience.

Our flagship product is our Single-to-Double Stroller, an everyday stroller that offers unparalleled flexibility, and can be paired with our complimentary stroller accessories. After years of innovative design & engineering and in-depth consumer testing, we launched our second major product, the 2-in-1 High Chair, which rapidly became one of the most popular high chairs on the market. Our vision is for families to be able to rely on Mockingbird through parenting stages and milestones – from newborn to toddler to child, from first strolls to first food and more – a brand parents could never imagine living without.

While humility is in our team’s DNA, we feel extremely proud of how much parents and top baby gear experts alike praise our products. We’ve received over 10,000 5-star customer reviews, we’ve been honored with awards & recommendations from the likes of Wirecutter, Forbes, and Babylist, and we hear from Mockingbird families every day how much our products mean to them (we actually have a whole Slack channel that’s just screenshots like this, this, and this)!

As a team, we’re scrappy, independent, and entrepreneurial, while also being strategic, methodical, and highly collaborative. We’re extremely thoughtful, caring, and supportive of our customers, and perhaps even more so of each other. We’re thrilled with how far Mockingbird has already come, but we’re invigorated by the thought of how much room we still have to grow. And that's where you come in…

What You’ll Be Doing

As a Product Development Program Manager (Portfolio Owner), you will own delivery outcomes for your assigned portfolio of products as part of a broader PDPM team, partnering closely with other Program Managers to drive consistency, coverage, and shared learnings across the product roadmap.

You are accountable for ensuring programs within your portfolio are planned, resourced, and executed effectively — from early feasibility through launch and sustaining. While you are the primary driver for your portfolio, you will operate in tight coordination with other members of the team to align sequencing, resources, and best practices. This role requires strong cross-functional partnership, proactive identification of risks and constraints, and clear communication to ensure products are delivered on time and to Mockingbird’s quality, cost, and performance standards.

This role balances deep ownership of individual programs with portfolio-level visibility and decision-making, requiring both strong execution skills and system-level thinking within a defined scope. You will be empowered to recommend sequencing, resourcing tradeoffs, and escalation paths for your portfolio, partnering with functional leaders to drive decisions that protect delivery and product quality.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the planning and execution of multiple product development programs within your assigned experience portfolio, from feasibility through launch and sustaining.
• Create and maintain comprehensive program schedules, with dependencies clearly mapped, critical paths identified, and milestones tracked across programs within your portfolio.
• Serve as the primary point of accountability for delivery outcomes within your portfolio, ensuring products ship on time and meet defined quality, cost, and performance requirements.
• Assess portfolio health holistically, identifying cross-program risks, dependencies, and opportunities to optimize sequencing, resourcing, and learning across launches.
• Proactively assess and forecast resourcing needs across Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Product Development, Operations, and external partners for your portfolio.
• Identify resourcing constraints, capacity risks, or timeline conflicts early, and elevate them clearly to cross-functional partners, adjacent Program Managers, and leadership to enable informed tradeoffs and prioritization decisions.
• Facilitate regular program syncs and executive-level updates, driving accountability and alignment across Engineering, Product, Quality, Supply Chain, and Operations.
• Plan and execute engineering build events both domestically and internationally, including creation of Build Plans, Build Matrices, and Clear-to-Build checkpoints.
• Partner closely with suppliers to ensure manufacturability, cost targets, quality standards, and readiness for scaling and launch.
• Own the escalation and mitigation of technical, schedule, and delivery risks across programs within your portfolio.
• Maintain and evolve core product lifecycle documentation, including BOM accuracy, ECO tracking, and change request processes.
• Use and help evolve the team’s common program management tools, templates, and documentation standards to ensure consistent execution across the portfolio.
• Partner with adjacent PDPMs to align cross-portfolio milestones, capacity constraints, hand offs and decision-making across the broader product roadmap.
• Contribute to shared PDPM processes and operating rhythms, including cross-portfolio planning, launch readiness reviews, and standard reporting.
• Support the onboarding and evaluation of new manufacturing partners as Mockingbird grows and diversifies its supply chain.
• Travel to overseas partners (primarily Asia-based) to support builds, supplier readiness, and launch execution, approximately 3-4x per year.

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or equivalent industry experience.
• 5+ years in Hardware Program Management for physical consumer products, ideally with international manufacturing partners.
• Experience managing multiple development cycles in parallel, with complex cross-functional dependencies.
• Proven success leading program schedules, cost and budget tracking, and risk management processes.
• Understanding of Agile and Phase-Gate methodologies and how to apply them pragmatically.
• Experience owning engineering build activities, both on-site and remotely, with international suppliers.
• Excellent communicator, adept at translating between engineering, operations, product, and executive stakeholders.
• Strong peer partner — collaborates proactively with other PMs to share learnings, flag risks early, and standardize best practices.
• Experience applying highly analytical, structured, and deeply organized approaches to drive clear, measurable outcomes.
• Ability to influence without authority; comfortable navigating ambiguity to drive clarity.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment with competing priorities.

Why We Think You’ll Like It Here

• We’re a certified Great Place to Work, a Fortune Best Workplace in New York, and a Fortune Best Small Workplace in the US! Through an anonymous, third-party survey, 100% of our employees said Mockingbird is a great place to work.
• We’re a fully remote company which means you get to work where you want (within the United States) during the hours that make the most sense for you and your family. We deeply value and encourage work/life balance.
• Despite working remotely, we prioritize building camaraderie across the company and having fun together. We hold monthly company social events, optional monthly 1:1 coffee chats, and in-person company retreats. We never miss a chance to celebrate birthdays, work-a-versaries, and every other life milestone.
• You’ll be empowered to truly make an impact on our business and on Mockingbird families. We’ve fostered a culture that promotes healthy debate and prioritization of the best ideas, rather than hierarchy and ego. If solving problems with a group of bright individuals is what gets you out of bed every day, you’ll love it here.
• We also support our team members with thoughtful benefits and perks including:
  • Comprehensive medical / dental / vision coverage
  • Equity for every full-time employee
  • Flexible Paid Time Off, including a minimum of at least 15 days off per year
  • 16 weeks of 100% paid Parental Leave for all team members who welcome a child into their family (whether through birth, adoption or foster placement), with an additional option for 4 weeks of unpaid leave and a Shadow Return week. Read more about our Parental Leave Policy here!
  • Family planning support through a complimentary Kindbody membership and medical plans that include coverage for fertility treatment and reproductive technology (fertility drugs, artificial insemination, IVF, and others)
  • 401(k) with 100% company match up to 2% of your salary
  • Quarterly wellness stipend and annual work-from-home stipend
  • Discounted memberships to the Peloton app and OneEleven (financial wellness), plus 12 free virtual therapy sessions a year with Talkspace
  • Family & friends discount on Mockingbird products, plus free products for yourself when you join