Product Development Manager
Product Development Manager w/ a Sense of Humor
Description
At Shinesty, our mission is to force the world to take itself less seriously. We make people laugh first and sell second. Our mothers don’t always approve of what we do, but the millions of people we’ve entertained over the years do. We're building the biggest irreverent retail brand in the world.
Our brand is all about humor but our products are seriously high quality. Our product quality should shock customers in a good way and keep them coming back for more. We're looking to add an experienced apparel and materials wizard to our amazing Product team. The right person will know how to improve product quality, cost, and speed to market on all products and have a great time doing it.
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Requirements
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage the development process through approval of fabric, trim, packaging, and garments. This includes gathering initial test reports, ensuring quality meets company standards, and material costs align with target costs.
- Oversee current product improvements and new product development recommending materials and construction techniques that meet design expectations and meet or exceed gross margin targets.
- Facilitate counter sourcing development based on allocation strategy providing warehouse pulled garments, projections, target FOB, and initial BOM & tech pack.
- Manages BOM creation and maintenance communicating seasonal BOMs and changes to factories.
- Creates and maintains material library defining historical approved bulk materials and toolbox for future design use.
- Partners with manufacturers to develop new materials, construction techniques, processes, and samples used to create innovative and technically superior products.
- Tracks seasonal material submissions ensuring approvals correspond to calendar deadlines, understands, and can clearly communicate delays and potential downstream impacts to production delivery.
- Responsible for initial costing negotiations by providing targets and gathering costs from product vendor.
- Provide styling, fit and construction comments during development (in conjunction with Design & Technical designer).
- Assists director in review of seasonal development calendar and publishes to cross-functional teams.
Competencies:
- Organized: Able to keep documents surrounding product approvals and status organized both electronically and physically.
- Self Starter: You can take feedback as well as work alone to keep the process moving forward and/or trouble shoot issues that arise
- Tenacious: constantly looking for opportunities and taking advantage of them
- Solution oriented creative thinker: Works with partners to find creative solutions . “No” is not a part of your vocabulary - always looking for the how can we make it happen .
Must Haves:
- Located in the Denver area or willing to relocate (relocation budget available).
- A sense of humor and outside of the box product thinker. Solution oriented.
- 7+ years experience managing and growing a brand in both product and fabric development.
- Knowledge of fabric and garment costing.
- Knowledge of fabric development from base cloth to yarn-dye, print, and solid execution.
- Experience in product development from garment inception to production ready.
- Experience in calendar management and trouble shooting off track products to prevent slide escalations.
Nice to Haves:
- Product development both Men’s and Women’s categories.
- Experience in Women’s underwear.
- Experience participating in fittings.
Benefits
- Competitive salary plus generous bonus incentives
- Work from home up to 60% of the time
- Stock options in one of the fastest growing retail brands in the world
- Relocation budget available (to Denver/Boulder)
- Full medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Dog-friendly office
- Flexible PTO, no need to accrue time, take as much as you'd like
- Flexible working hours, just get your stuff done and generate results
- All the tools and resources you need to be successful in this role
