About this role
Program Manager (Interim 9-12 months) **About Aquablu** - ---------------- Aquablu builds the smart hydration systems that replace bottles, coolers, and the guesswork around office hydration. Refill, flavor, and track, all from one system. We're now building our next chapter: a company-wide program that runs through commercial, marketing, product, and operations at once. The milestones are locked. The plan that connects them isn't built yet. That's the job. **The Role** - ----------- You run a workgroup of discipline leads and report to two executive sponsors. You own the plan, the meeting cadence, and dependency and risk tracking across every function. The product isn't yours. Everything that has to line up around it is. * **Plan.*** Build the high-level plan between a handful of locked milestones, and keep it honest. * **Enablement.*** Work hands-on with each lead to turn their workstream into a clear roadmap with milestones in Asana. You make plans legible, not just tracked. * **Cadence.*** Run the steering rhythm: set each meeting's focus, decide who needs to be in the room, force decisions that have stalled. * **Dependencies.*** Track cross-functional dependencies and risks. Escalate to sponsors early, without drama. * **Decisions.*** Drive open commercial and strategic questions to closure with the leads who own each piece. This role offers a contract for 9 months initially, with the possibility of extension. Freelancers are also welcome to apply. Who You Are - ---------- * You've taken a proposition to market end to end: commercial, marketing, ops, and product, together. * Commercially literate. You hold your own in a pricing or channel discussion. You don't just take the minutes. * Senior enough to push heads of department. Hands-on enough to sit down and build the roadmap with them. * Fluent in Asana or a comparable work management tool. You set the structure others follow. * You create structure in ambi...