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WAYB · 1 month ago

Soft Goods Product Developer

Salt Lake City, UT

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

5+ years exp

WAYB, Inc. is a company dedicated to creating safer and more sustainable family products. The Soft Goods Product Developer will oversee the development of products from concept to commercialization, ensuring quality and innovation while collaborating with various teams and managing timelines and specifications.

ConsumerConsumer GoodsProduct Design

No H1B

Responsibilities

Serve as an essential member of the product team, ensuring WAYB and Gentle Wuff bring to market products that accomplish our quality standards, design, and innovation

Work closely with WAYB and Gentle Wuff industrial design teams to understand the vision and direction for the product

Collaborate with internal teams and external manufacturing partners and suppliers to track product from prototype stages through commercialization and into production launch

Own project development calendar, keeping the product on track to hit milestone deadlines

Adhere to and advise on global compliance, regulation, and testing requirements

Create the technical specifications for products to clearly communicate design requirements to manufacturing partners. This will include cost tracking through the Bill of Materials, dimensional data, and materials selection

Review prototypes, samples, and production for adherence to quality and sustainability standards and manufacturing feasibility. Clearly communicate and track revisions to manufacturers

In collaboration with industrial design, design engineering, and category management, source high performance, sustainable, cost effective raw materials, chemistry, and trims. Maintain materials standards and sample library

Ensure raw materials are confirmed and purchased to support an on time launch

Monitor and contribute to quality control standards for raw materials and final production

Assist customer service department with technical support

Apply company values, including environmental sustainability, to every material, process, and decision

Understand full scope of concept to commercialization to best support cross-functional expectations by maintaining clear lines of communication with logistics and operations; supporting sales and marketing needs and timelines

And other responsibilities as assigned