// Open Role at Nex Playground
Nex Playground is seeking a hands-on Project Manager to drive hardware development from NPI through mass production. You'll coordinate across diverse teams and external partners, ensuring smooth execution for their award-winning active play system.
Nex is on a mission to help families rediscover the joy of movement. Created by parents for parents, Nex combines technology and play to deliver fun, social, and interactive experiences powered by natural body motion, encouraging kids and adults to move more, play more, and have fun together. Nex Playground, the company’s award-winning active play system, is purpose-built to get families moving year-round, with safety and privacy as core considerations in its intentional design. It is certified kidSAFE+ COPPA compliant and built to support healthy, active play for all ages and abilities.
Nex Playground features a growing library of 50+ experiences, including motion and dance games, fitness and educational experiences, and Nex Originals. Content includes collaborations with partners like Hasbro, Sesame Workshop, and NBCUniversal. Nex has been recognized by Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, TIME’s Best Inventions, and Parents’ Best Entertainment System for Families, and has earned Red Dot, IDEA, and Core77 international design awards. We encourage you to explore Have Fun and Is Motion Gaming Back?, as they offer a deeper look into our culture, values, and explain how our approach to motion gaming differs from previous generations.
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As Nex’s Project Manager - HW, you will support the day-to-day project management, tracking, and execution for Nex Playground from NPI through mass production and sustaining. You will coordinate across retail, marketing, design, engineering, compliance, supply chain, manufacturing, and ODMs to facilitate project execution and communication excellence. You will also support the team in improving working efficiency through effective tracking, documentation, and coordination.
This is a hands-on and execution-focused project management role. As you develop deeper product and technical knowledge, you will have opportunities to take ownership of larger workstreams and grow toward managing projects and programs independently.
Highly organized, detail-oriented, and accountable. You enjoy bringing structure to complex and fast-moving projects and driving actions through closure. You think logically, communicate clearly, and are comfortable following up proactively with different stakeholders. You are curious, willing to learn technical subjects, and not afraid to ask questions when something does not make sense. Strong execution, ownership, and communication are most important traits for the job.
Nex is located in San Jose, California, USA and Hong Kong. Learn more about us at nex.inc/who-we-are.
We encourage applications even if you don’t meet more than 50% of the requirements — we believe that experience comes in many forms!
Nex is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. This policy applies to all individuals at every stage of the employment relationship, including all current and prospective employees, and covers all employment decisions including recruitment, hiring, job assignment, promotion, compensation, benefits, training, discipline and termination.
We are committed to providing a workplace free from discrimination and harassment and to fostering an inclusive environment for all employees.
- Bachelor’s degree - 3+ years of experience in project management / project coordination - Strong organizational skills and attention to detail - Strong follow-up and execution discipline with the ability to drive actions through closure - Good communication skills and the ability to coordinate effectively across different functions and stakeholders - Fluency in English and Mandarin, both written and spoken - Independent, proactive, and accountable - Willing to learn and continuously develop technical and product knowledge