Senior Product Developer
Are you a skilled product developer with a documented history of creating high-quality performance apparel combined with a proven track record of bringing successful products to market?
Your main responsibilities
As our new senior product developer, you will be working closely with the design, production, and marketing teams, and be responsible for bringing innovative and functional products to market while ensuring they meet the brand's standards of quality and aesthetics.
Besides this, your key responsibilities will be:
- Product Development: Lead the end-to-end product development process, from conceptualization to final production, for cycling apparel and related accessories.
- Lab Dipping: Develop and execute lab dipping processes to create prototypes and samples of products, including textiles, coatings, or other materials.
- Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including designers, pattern makers, suppliers, and manufacturers, to translate design concepts into feasible products.
- Prototyping: Oversee the creation of prototypes and samples, ensuring they meet design specifications, testing standards and performance requirements.
- Quality Control: Establish and maintain quality standards for all products, conducting regular inspections and tests to ensure consistency and functionality together with our Quality Manager.
- Innovation: Stay up-to-date with industry trends, materials, and technologies to incorporate innovative features and improvements into product designs.
- Cost Management: Work closely with the suppliers to optimize product costs without compromising quality and performance.
- Timelines: Manage project timelines and milestones to ensure products are developed and delivered on schedule.
- Supplier Relationships: Build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers and manufacturers, negotiating prices and resolving issues as needed.
- Documentation: Create and maintain detailed product specifications, BOMS, CBD, Photo Sample Tracking Sheets, and other relevant documentation.
- Market Research: Conduct market research to identify gaps, opportunities, and emerging trends in the cycling apparel market.
- Testing and Feedback: Coordinate product testing and gather feedback from athletes and professionals to iterate and enhance product designs.
This role will be reporting to the Head of Product, and you will join a truly international and diverse company with teams based across the European, US and Asian Markets with most of us in Pas Normal Studios' global HQ in Copenhagen, Denmark.
For this role, you must be based in our Copenhagen, HQ office and you must have the flexibility to travel approximately 20%.
You: A product developer with strong technical knowledge of garment construction, materials, and manufacturing processes
We imagine that the ideal candidate holds a bachelor’s degree in Fashion Design, Textile Engineering, Product Development, or a related field (or equivalent experience) followed by a minimum of 5 years of experience in product development within the cycling apparel or performance apparel industry. Preferably in an international organisation.
Besides this, we look for a candidate with:
- Strong technical knowledge of fabric properties, garment construction techniques, and manufacturing processes specific to performance apparel
- Proficiency in using PLM tools, design software and other tools
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively across teams and with external partners.
- Attention to detail, problem-solving skills, and a passion for creating high-performance cycling products.
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and work effectively in a fast-paced environment.
What do we offer?
We are driven by our core values of passion, performance, and accountability. Our mission is to challenge ourselves to bring the best possible products to cycling communities all over the world.
We want work to be fun and inspirational - to spark our curious minds. Be able to challenge the status quo, grow and learn as a team and as individuals. You will join a truly international, progressive, and result-oriented team as we continue our ambitious growth journey over the next years.
How and when to apply.
Please send your application and CV to job@pasnormalstudios.com before January 15th, 2025. And mark the subject field (Senior Product Developer)
Equal opportunity employer
Pas Normal Studios is an equal opportunity employer and all aspects of employment reflect that. We don’t discriminate based on race, colour, religion, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, age, or political orientation no matter where we operate.
About Pas Normal Studios
Pas Normal Studios wants to inspire people to explore their own road. Through innovative designs, brand collaborations and the development and sourcing of products and production methods, we aim to be the pioneering brand for dedicated cyclists.
Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, with a global presence and international culture, we are committed to the continuing development of cycling. With inspiration from international art, culture, and fashion, we are a brand defined by contemporary patterns and colors with Scandinavian roots. We are always in pursuit of quality, craftsmanship and sustainable solutions, our products are created for long-term usage, working as a system across seasons.