Levi Strauss & Co. is seeking a VP, Concept-to-Consumer (CTC) Transformation & Product Operations to lead enterprise strategy, transformation, and operational excellence across the end-to-end product creation and go-to-market ecosystem. Reporting to the Chief Product Officer, this role will help shape the global GTM operating model and drive cross-functional execution focused on speed, clarity, efficiency, accountability, and consumer relevance.
Role Focus
This position will establish and evolve the operating mechanisms that govern how work moves through the product lifecycle and the GTM process. You will drive enterprise change across processes, digital enablement, and decision rights, while improving visibility, analytics, and planning discipline to ensure critical seasonal, commercial, and product milestones are delivered.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with the Chief Product Officer and senior leaders to define and execute the enterprise vision for CTC and GTM transformation.
- Lead the evolution of an end-to-end GTM operating model across functions, regions, and markets.
- Own the global GTM calendar, milestone framework, governance forums, and executive operating rhythms.
- Drive change across processes, tools, decision rights, ways of working, behaviors, and accountability.
- Simplify and improve how work flows through the product lifecycle to accelerate decision-making and speed to market.
- Strengthen GTM effectiveness using business priorities, consumer needs, industry trends, and external benchmarks.
- Build and lead a high-performing global Product Operations and GTM Operations function.
- Establish KPIs, governance, decision rights, and operating mechanisms that strengthen accountability and execution.
- Ensure disciplined planning, dependency management, and issue resolution for key seasonal and product milestones.
- Create scalable standards, playbooks, and tools to improve consistency, transparency, and efficiency across teams.
- Surface and resolve complex cross-functional risks, trade-offs, and execution barriers.
- Partner with global and regional leaders to deliver major product launches and GTM milestones on time.
- Lead redesign and optimization of GTM, product creation, and portfolio management processes.
- Implement governance to enable visibility, prioritization, timely decisions, issue resolution, and clear ownership.
- Advance business priorities including assortment optimization, product platforming, material and fabric efficiencies, and process simplification.
- Set the digital tools strategy and roadmap for the product organization, and define requirements for GTM, planning, product development, workflow, and reporting solutions.
- Lead implementation, adoption, training, and change management for new platforms and tools.
- Improve process visibility, reporting, and analytics to support faster, data-informed decisions.
- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team across transformation, product operations, and execution excellence.
- Serve as a trusted advisor and thought partner to senior executives.
Required Qualifications
- 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in Product Operations, GTM, Merchandising Operations, Product Creation, Supply Chain Operations, Transformation, or a related field.
- Proven success leading large-scale business transformation and organizational change in a complex, global environment.
- Deep experience with global GTM and product creation processes in apparel, footwear, retail, consumer goods, or a related industry.
- Experience leading teams and influencing senior executives in a highly matrixed organization.
- Demonstrated ability to build scalable governance, enterprise processes, and execution frameworks.
- Experience partnering with technology teams to implement and scale digital tools and process transformation.
- Enterprise-level strategic thinking with a strong record of translating vision into execution.
- Expertise in transformation, change leadership, operational excellence, and process optimization.
- Deep knowledge of Product Operations, Merchandising Operations, Product Creation, and GTM processes.
- Exceptional ability to influence, align, and mobilize stakeholders across functions, regions, and levels.
- Strong business acumen, consumer orientation, and analytical decision-making.
- Ability to lead through ambiguity, navigate competing priorities, and resolve complex enterprise issues.
- Outstanding executive communication, facilitation, and presentation skills.
- Proven ability to build high-performing teams and develop talent.
Compensation
Salary: USD 251,600 - 369,100 per year.
Expected starting salary range: $251,600 - $369,100 per year.
Benefits
- 401(k) matching
- paid leave
- health insurance
- product discounts
- base pay
- incentive plans
Location and Work Schedule
- Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
- Work model: Hybrid based in San Francisco, CA headquarters
- Office expectation: 3 days per week typically Tuesday through Thursday (time in office may vary depending on business needs)
Employment Details
- Full time
- Expected fill date: 01/18/2027
