Arc'teryx
Senior Product Developer - Footwear
Arc'teryx, Portland, Oregon, United States, 97204
Your opportunity at Arc’teryx:
As a Senior Product Developer, you lead a team of Product Developers who partner to support the rollout of highly technical and complex footwear products from design phase (concept) through to production readiness. Using your technical development expertise, you collaborate with Product Creation, Design, Manufacturing, and other cross-functional teams to deliver beautiful products that inspire the core mountain athlete to reach new levels of performance. Your innovative and solutions-focused approach to development ensures that each product you work on meets Arc’teryx design intent and brand integrity requirements.
This role is based out of our Portland office and is expected to be performed on-location.
Meet Your Future Team:
The Arc’teryx team creates innovative, beautiful products that exceed the core mountain athlete’s needs in the outdoors across climbing, hiking, and trail running categories. We are builders, problem solvers and passionate outdoor enthusiasts. Fueled by curiosity, we take an immersive approach to identifying our athlete’s future needs then build, test, and validate products that solve for real functional challenges. We are a passionate collective with a focus on collaborative teamwork and our vision is to redefine the industry.
If you were a Senior Product Developer now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:
Leading, training, supporting and mentoring the Product Developers throughout the execution and development of our highly technical and complex footwear products, from design phase and intent through to production readiness, to ensure product reaches commercialization on-time
Leading and influencing the development process to achieve commercial viability of designs through partnership and collaboration with Product Design, Materials Development, Costing, Product Testing, Commercialization, Production and Quality teams
Partnering and collaborating with Design, Development, Advanced Concepts, Materials and offshore counterparts to ensure concepts and prototypes, counter-sample and production finished goods meet established fit, quality and construction standards going into pre-production
Compiling all product materials/construction information and maintaining an accurate database and documentation of BOM information and technical specifications
Contributing to efficient raw material sourcing and purchasing and accurately produced finished product
Executing to calendar deliverables, including but not limited to concept sample and prototype development, material validation, estimated costing, initial quality evaluation and approval requirements with key stakeholders
Ensuring accurate cost estimates and price targets are achievable to meet and/or exceed target FOB
Contributing to the creation and evolution of construction standards in conjunction with industry standards, internal performance requirements and proven/tested athlete validation
Working in conjunction with the Product Merchandising, Design, and Brand teams to ensure all external product communication accurately reflects model requirements and specifications
Communicating opportunities for process improvement with a lean forward attitude to drive evolution within our Product Creation process
Liaising with cross-functional departments to provide Development support as needed, facilitating cross-departmental problem solving
Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future:
Working with developing direct to factory development
Working on future concepting, product testing, alongside the Advanced Concepts team
Working on the evolution of how we ideate, develop, test and validate innovations
Are you our next Senior Product Developer?
You have 10+ years’ experience in product development (developing product/process) with a focus on technical, innovative footwear and 2+ year's leading a team
You have an Undergraduate Degree OR equivalent industry training, certification, or related business experience
You have experience effectively communicating with, and traveling to domestic and offshore vendors and manufacturers
You have valued input to product costing
You have a comprehensive understanding of design intent, product aesthetics, construction, production and fit
You have a complete understanding of the product lifecycle process - from ideation to consumer
You have extensive knowledge of raw materials, technical construction, and sourcing
You are detailed and accuracy oriented with strong organizational skills
You demonstrate initiative, agility and commitment
You are proactive in identifying the root cause of issues and developing solutions
You are goal driven with a results-oriented attitude
You effectively balance autonomy and collaboration
You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity
You inspire breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement
Your passion for your work is paralleled by your passion for getting outside and living it
You thrive in a fast paced, diverse, ever evolving and values led environment
You have a proven mentorship ability
You have excellent interpersonal and communication (written and verbal) skills
You seek to execute the best (sometimes not the easiest) solutions with an unwavering commitment to do right
$115,000 - $130,000 a year
A reasonable estimate of the pay range is USD $115,000 - USD $130,000 at the time of this posting. Within the range, individual pay is determined by factors such as job-related skills, relevant experience, education and/or training.
Please note that the range details above reflect the base pay only and does not include our competitive bonus program and benefits that we offer.
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As a Senior Product Developer, you lead a team of Product Developers who partner to support the rollout of highly technical and complex footwear products from design phase (concept) through to production readiness. Using your technical development expertise, you collaborate with Product Creation, Design, Manufacturing, and other cross-functional teams to deliver beautiful products that inspire the core mountain athlete to reach new levels of performance. Your innovative and solutions-focused approach to development ensures that each product you work on meets Arc’teryx design intent and brand integrity requirements.
This role is based out of our Portland office and is expected to be performed on-location.
Meet Your Future Team:
The Arc’teryx team creates innovative, beautiful products that exceed the core mountain athlete’s needs in the outdoors across climbing, hiking, and trail running categories. We are builders, problem solvers and passionate outdoor enthusiasts. Fueled by curiosity, we take an immersive approach to identifying our athlete’s future needs then build, test, and validate products that solve for real functional challenges. We are a passionate collective with a focus on collaborative teamwork and our vision is to redefine the industry.
If you were a Senior Product Developer now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:
Leading, training, supporting and mentoring the Product Developers throughout the execution and development of our highly technical and complex footwear products, from design phase and intent through to production readiness, to ensure product reaches commercialization on-time
Leading and influencing the development process to achieve commercial viability of designs through partnership and collaboration with Product Design, Materials Development, Costing, Product Testing, Commercialization, Production and Quality teams
Partnering and collaborating with Design, Development, Advanced Concepts, Materials and offshore counterparts to ensure concepts and prototypes, counter-sample and production finished goods meet established fit, quality and construction standards going into pre-production
Compiling all product materials/construction information and maintaining an accurate database and documentation of BOM information and technical specifications
Contributing to efficient raw material sourcing and purchasing and accurately produced finished product
Executing to calendar deliverables, including but not limited to concept sample and prototype development, material validation, estimated costing, initial quality evaluation and approval requirements with key stakeholders
Ensuring accurate cost estimates and price targets are achievable to meet and/or exceed target FOB
Contributing to the creation and evolution of construction standards in conjunction with industry standards, internal performance requirements and proven/tested athlete validation
Working in conjunction with the Product Merchandising, Design, and Brand teams to ensure all external product communication accurately reflects model requirements and specifications
Communicating opportunities for process improvement with a lean forward attitude to drive evolution within our Product Creation process
Liaising with cross-functional departments to provide Development support as needed, facilitating cross-departmental problem solving
Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future:
Working with developing direct to factory development
Working on future concepting, product testing, alongside the Advanced Concepts team
Working on the evolution of how we ideate, develop, test and validate innovations
Are you our next Senior Product Developer?
You have 10+ years’ experience in product development (developing product/process) with a focus on technical, innovative footwear and 2+ year's leading a team
You have an Undergraduate Degree OR equivalent industry training, certification, or related business experience
You have experience effectively communicating with, and traveling to domestic and offshore vendors and manufacturers
You have valued input to product costing
You have a comprehensive understanding of design intent, product aesthetics, construction, production and fit
You have a complete understanding of the product lifecycle process - from ideation to consumer
You have extensive knowledge of raw materials, technical construction, and sourcing
You are detailed and accuracy oriented with strong organizational skills
You demonstrate initiative, agility and commitment
You are proactive in identifying the root cause of issues and developing solutions
You are goal driven with a results-oriented attitude
You effectively balance autonomy and collaboration
You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity
You inspire breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement
Your passion for your work is paralleled by your passion for getting outside and living it
You thrive in a fast paced, diverse, ever evolving and values led environment
You have a proven mentorship ability
You have excellent interpersonal and communication (written and verbal) skills
You seek to execute the best (sometimes not the easiest) solutions with an unwavering commitment to do right
$115,000 - $130,000 a year
A reasonable estimate of the pay range is USD $115,000 - USD $130,000 at the time of this posting. Within the range, individual pay is determined by factors such as job-related skills, relevant experience, education and/or training.
Please note that the range details above reflect the base pay only and does not include our competitive bonus program and benefits that we offer.
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