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Commercial Program Lead

Thefarmersdog

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About this role

Who We Are

The Farmer’s Dog was born from a mission to change the landscape of pet health, providing dogs and their humans with honest, smart, and simple care. We’re starting by radically improving the $90 billion pet food industry, replacing bags of highly-processed pellets with a personalized subscription service that sends complete and balanced, freshly-made dog food directly to customers’ doors. Our ultimate goal is to create innovative, delightful and personalized experiences across all aspects of pet care, and we believe our direct-to-consumer business model, holistic approach to growth, and dynamic culture uniquely position us to shepherd this backwards industry into the future.

To date, The Farmer’s Dog has delivered over 1 billion meals nationwide and raised over $150M in funding to help us build a company as healthy as the dogs who are eating those meals. Join us as we continue to develop ways of bringing peace of mind to customers, health to their companions, and much-needed change to the way people feed and care for their pets.

#LongLiveDogs

What We Stand For and Where You’ll Come In

The Farmer’s Dog is looking for a Commercial Program Lead to sit at the heart of our Commercial team, reporting into the Director of Portfolio Management. This is a first-of-its-kind role at TFD, built around a clear, urgent need. As our go-to-market work spans more functions and moves faster, we need someone who keeps the right people aligned, timelines honest, and accountability shared. You will be the connective tissue across all cross functional teams required to commercialize products: Innovation, Commercial, Brand, Customer Care, Operations, and Finance, ensuring commercial plans don’t just get made, they get executed, correctly and on time.

One Team: We don’t think of ourselves as “Acquisition Marketers”, “Engineers”, “Data Analysts”, or “Product Managers”. Beyond denoting skill sets and areas of expertise, we don’t think departments matter. We’d rather align ourselves to the goals we’re working to achieve and make sure we have necessary subject matter expertise to drive meaningful impact. We strive to orient ourselves around customer problems TOGETHER – getting the right people, with the right context, in the right rooms/Zooms to solve problems holistically.

We are skeptical about everything and precious about nothing: Ideas can and should come from anywhere, and we aren’t tied to our own. We proactively source input. We talk to our customers and leads regularly and are quick to change course if we know there’s a better or more impactful way to solve problems.

We consider the customer journey in all of our decisions: We know that no interaction exists in a silo and therefore understand how important every single one is. We ensure our strategy sets prospective and new customers up for success and drives long-term retention. We answer questions and address problems early and proactively. We understand the value of different channels, initiatives, and messages and know how to articulate impact and advocate for prioritization holistically.

We Execute For Impact: We don’t subscribe to “best practices” or “industry KPIs”. We’re uninterested in how we compare to “benchmarks”; instead we orient ourselves around being the best we can possibly be. Similarly, we don’t subscribe to rigid or classical expectations of roles – i.e. acquisition is hyper-focused on improving customer retention and experience.

We Are Focused and Work Without Assumption : We are not beholden to ideas. We have goals and believe everything beyond that is a series of hypotheses to validate. To that end, we seek to work in sequence and not in parallel. We constantly ask ourselves, “what’s the most important hypothesis I should be working on right now? How do I confirm or reject that hypothesis as fast as possible?”. We rarely have timelines/deadlines and are constantly taking in new information and adjusting our priorities accordingly. We don’t expect to be perfect the first time.

How You'll Make An Impact

• Lead master go-to-market timeline & milestone management for commercialization projects from planning through launch.

• Be the single source of truth on project status — who owns what, by when — and surface gaps, conflicts, and risks before they become problems.

• Build accountability structures across cross-functional teams that keep everyone aligned and moving without adding unnecessary overhead.

• Run working sessions that drive decisions: right people, clear outcomes, owned follow-ups.

• Keep leadership informed with accurate, timely updates on status, risks, and the trade-offs that need their attention.

• Partner with Commercial leads to sequence priorities and translate goals into executable, trackable plans.

• Own the Stage Gate process — work with project owner to prepare projects for review, sequence them into the right monthly meetings, and keep them on track.

We're Excited About You Because

• You have at least 8 years of relevant experience in go-to-market execution, commercial operations.

• You have a proven track record of keeping complex, multi-stakeholder go-to-market work on time.

• You treat timeline gaps and communication breakdowns as your problem to fix, not someone else’s.

• You’re known for your follow up and your ability to follow through; people feel more supported than chased.

• You can read a room, understand competing priorities, and still drive to clarity and a concrete next step.

• You don’t need a perfectly scoped brief to get started, you can operate in ambiguity and make the path visible for others.

• You know how to leverage technology and AI to build lightweight tools, templates, and workflows that make status tracking, dependency management, and follow-up more seamless.

• You’ve worked in or closely alongside brand, operations, or commercial functions and understand how products and campaigns actually come to life.

• You’re skilled at making complex dependencies

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