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# Global Strategy Manager at Product Ventures

- **Company:** Product Ventures
- **Location:** Chicago, IL
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2025-12-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/productventures/0de317f4-6337-4488-a8f5-9b9704e85ba2

## Job description

Reports to: CEO Department: Sales & Marketing

PV&COHO is a forward-thinking, design-driven agency where strategy, creativity, and ambition unite to fuel growth. You’ll be part of an environment that thrives on curiosity, ownership, and bold ideas, where your initiative and drive will directly shape the future of our agency. If you’re passionate about making an impact, building something meaningful, and growing your career with a group that values innovation and collaboration, PV&COHO is the place to launch your next chapter.

## Overview

The Global Strategy Manager is the front line of our growth engine, a bold, curious, and driven hunter, responsible for opening doors and creating new possibilities for the agency. Working in parallel with our Global Strategy Directors, the Global Strategy Manager is responsible for acquisition of net-new accounts that drive growth for the organization. This role willreport directly to the CEO. The GSM will focus on opening new accounts, generating top-of-funnel activity, initiating relationships with brands we aspire to partner with, and fueling the early stages of the sales pipeline in alignment with our 2026 sales strategy.

The role is designed for someone with a proactive, persistent, and curious sales mindset who can identify opportunities, build early relationships, and create consistent momentum with prospective clients. This is a chance to build something meaningful, sharpen your sales craft, and grow your career alongside a team that values curiosity, ownership, and big thinking.

## Key Responsibilities

- Identify, prospect, and engage new (60) target accounts through outbound outreach, networking, and marketing-generated leads
- Secure first meetings and build a strong, consistent early-stage pipeline
- Spark initial relationships with key stakeholders and decision-makers across priority accounts
- Maintain accurate, timely CRM records in HubSpot to ensure visibility and momentum across the pipeline
- Track pipeline activity, forecast performance, and meet or exceed monthly, quarterly, and annual sales targets.
- Contribute to predictable revenue growth by consistently expanding the top of the funnel.
- Partner closely with marketing and senior strategy leaders to align outreach with agency priorities

Ideal Qualifications

- 2-4 years of experience in sales or business development, ideally within professional services, consulting, or B2B industries.
- Hunter mindset, proactive, persistent, self-driven, and energized by generating new opportunities.
- A natural connector with strong communication and relationship-building skills
- Comfortable researching, prioritizing, and pursuing high-value target accounts
- CRM experience required; HubSpot preferred.
- Curious, energetic, and motivated by ambitious growth goals.

How You’ll Grow (Career Path)

- This role is intentionally designed as a launchpad:
- Phase 1 – Net-New Hunter: Focus on opening doors, generating meetings, and creating early-stage opportunities
- Phase 2 – Account Growth & Relationship Building: Once accounts are secured, you’ll begin growing those relationships, expanding your footprint, and partnering more deeply with clients
- Phase 3 – Strategic Partner: Over time, you’ll evolve into a trusted advisor — shaping conversations, influencing growth strategy, and owning a portfolio of meaningful client relationships
- As the agency grows, so does this role, with clear pathways into senior strategy, business development, or account leadership positions.

## Compensation & Benefits

## Compensation

Base Compensation: TBD based on experience and qualifications Commission Plan: TBD (role will include performance-based commission aligned to new business meetings and pipeline creation)

## Benefits

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision 401(k) with company match Flexible PTO Paid holidays Remote work flexibility Professional development opportunities Supportive, collaborative team environment

## About Product Ventures

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Product Ventures is a brand strategy and design consultancy specializing in structural packaging design and innovation, transforming ideas into purposeful and memorable design solutions for consumer brands.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Acquired by Sean Bisceglia in June 2024) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/product-ventures)
- **Headquarters**: Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
- **Founded**: 1994 [lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/productventures)
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Design services, structural packaging design, brand strategy, consumer research, industrial design, and prototyping.
- **Target customers**: B2B; global consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies and brand owners.
- **Mission/purpose**: "As pioneers of the consumer-informed process, we transform ideas into purposeful and memorable design solutions." [lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/productventures)

## Products & Services
- **Structural Packaging Design**: Holistic packaging structure, shelf visibility, and innovation from concept to commercialization.
- **Industrial Design**: Consumer product design, form development, and user-centered design.
- **Graphic Design & Branding**: Visual identity, packaging graphics, and brand expression.
- **Consumer Research**: Consumer-informed insights that guide design decisions and reduce market risk.
- **Engineering & Prototyping**: Mechanical and packaging engineering, plus in-house prototyping to accelerate development.
- **Brand Strategy**: Strategic positioning, creative discovery, and 360-degree consideration of brand challenges.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Estimated annual revenue of $12.5M; headcount reported as 9 employees in one source [lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/productventures) and 44 total employees in another [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/product-ventures). (Conflicting reports.)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Acquired by Sean Bisceglia in June 2024 [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/product-ventures); acquired COHO Creative LLC (March 2025) and 4Sight, Inc. (May 2021). Talent and experience signals show ties to major CPG companies including Kellogg Company, Procter & Gamble, Church & Dwight, and Henkel [lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/productventures).
- **Growth Signals**: Rebranding/transitioning to WovenWorks as its "next chapter" (announced July 2026) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/product-ventures); active hiring for strategy and design roles [builtin.com/jobs](https://builtin.com/company/product-ventures/jobs); growing through acquisitions.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Consumer-informed process**: An integrated methodology that places consumer insights at the core of design decisions.
- **Interdisciplinary expertise**: In-house teams span industrial design, graphic design, consumer research, mechanical engineering, packaging engineering, and prototyping.
- **End-to-end capability**: From strategy and research through engineering, prototyping, and commercialization.
- **Decades of experience**: Founded in 1994, with a track record serving well-known global brands.
- **Strategic acquisitions**: COHO Creative and 4Sight bring additional creative and technology capabilities.

## Strategic Focus
- **Transition to WovenWorks**: Rebranding and evolving the company's identity for a new chapter [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/product-ventures).
- **Integration of acquisitions**: Absorbing COHO Creative and 4Sight into a broader service offering.
- **Expansion of strategy practice**: Hiring a Global Strategy Manager in Chicago to drive new business and revenue growth [builtin.com/jobs](https://builtin.com/company/product-ventures/jobs).
- **Global client reach**: Continuing to serve leading consumer brands with holistic design innovation.

## Why Work Here
- **Collaborative, interdisciplinary culture**: Employees work across design, engineering, research, and strategy to solve complex packaging and product challenges.
- **Hands-on environment**: In-house prototyping and design facilities enable tangible, fast iteration.
- **Hybrid/in-office flexibility**: The Global Strategy Manager role is hybrid in Chicago, while design-focused roles are in-office in Fairfield, CT; internships are in-person [builtin

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