Product Developer – Women’s Lifestyle –

Description & Requirements

Product Developer – Women’s Lifestyle 

who we’re

lululemon is an revolutionary efficiency attire firm for yoga, operating, coaching, and different athletic pursuits. Setting the bar in technical materials and purposeful design, we create transformational merchandise and experiences that help individuals in transferring, rising, connecting, and being nicely. We owe our success to our revolutionary product, emphasis on shops, dedication to our individuals, and the unimaginable connections we make in each neighborhood we’re in. As an organization, we give attention to creating constructive change to construct a more healthy, thriving future. In specific, that features creating an equitable, inclusive and growth-focused setting for our individuals.

About this staff: 

From idea via to pre-production stage, Product Development is the front-line concerning communication with the completed items vendor base, launching sketches, requesting sampling, becoming product, and conserving an correct information library of the life cycle of a product. Product Development is a really cross purposeful working group that pivot to companions reminiscent of Design, Concept, Global Fit, Technical Development, Quality, Merchandising, Finished Goods Sourcing, Raw Materials, and Go To Market operations to ship a commercially prepared product to our purchasing groups. They are robust communicators who worth and develop their cross purposeful relationships. This is a staff of excessive performers who’re continually striving to develop personally and professionally, practising open suggestions in a trusting house. This staff is aware of find out how to deliver enjoyable into their on a regular basis, prioritising staff connection and having fun with artistic periods collectively. 

A day within the life: 

The Product Developer is accountable to drive the commercialization of best-in-class product in partnership with artistic and strategic counterparts, balancing operate, time, price and high quality whereas delivering design intent. Reference product highway maps, business requirements and leverage venture administration experience to ship premium, purposeful, and revolutionary product match for manufacturing. 

• Complete and handle model BOM initiation
• Maintain information integrity in Flex PLM and different related programs
• Organize each day workflow that adheres to GTM deliverables & growth timelines
• Set up and oversee the model or group of kinds, with diversified complexity, from idea via to manufacturing readiness
• Educates and encourages business-oriented perspective targeted on huge image priorities
• Gain help and enrollment of the supposed viewers, friends, and stakeholders via each verbal and visible communication and training
• Understands the positions of others and builds dedication to the beneficial plan of action
• Track and conduct threat assessments and determine High Attention Styles (HAS) based mostly on vendor, model & materials
• Present and recommendation on model growth standing at key product conferences
• Partners with cross-functional friends to optimize product via visitor insights
• Collaborate with inside and exterior sources (Labs, vendor co-creation) to unravel innovation alternatives
• Drive and affect cross-functional companions for concern decision

{qualifications} 

• Bachelor’s diploma in a associated self-discipline or equal skilled expertise; targeted coaching in Technical Design, Product Management, Product Development or related expertise most popular
• 5+ years minimal business expertise; expertise in Women’s informal most popular (ideally inside the Product Development, Product Management or Sourcing departments)
• Proficiency in MS workplace (Excel/Word/Outlook), Adobe Design Suite (Illustrator and Photoshop)
• Proficiency with Flex PLM or related PLM software program
• Strong utilized comprehension of end-to-end product life cycle
• Familiarity or proficiency with Gerber Pattern Making and/or 3D software program (CLO, Browzwear) is an asset

necessities