About the position
As a Product Engineer, you’ll have footwear product experience to bring products from development to manufacturing and utilize tools and systems to ensure high quality and cost-effectiveness across multiple functions. We seek someone with footwear experience in a role that requires gaining buy-in from a broad range of product creation teams and/or factory partner stakeholders to improve product manufacturability by leveraging analytics, problem-solving decision-making, and communicating to simplify the complex. Leverage consumer insights to optimize business and product performance through the lens of sustainable growth. Someone who has innovation experience driving and pursuing trade-offs that have the greatest benefit to business and product. The ability to consider all critical inputs and impacts of decisions. Involve the right stakeholders from the beginning to bring a new tech to life. We seek a self-motivated, quick learner, a strong communicator, positive thinking and a teammate with great self-awareness and strong leadership skills.
Responsibilities
- Working on product creation, from brief through commercialization, on adult products, with a relentless focus on product excellence.
- Providing early recommendations and technical expertise to cross-functional teams on Tooling, Outsole and Midsole compounds, Plates, Thermoplastic injection, product construction techniques, materials, manufacturing processes, sustainability, cost, and chemical engineering solutions.
- Proactively identifying concerns to prevent potential manufacturing, sustainability, or costing issues.
- Providing a multi-solution path approach and creative problem-solving to deliver sustainable product excellence for our consumers.
- Using innovative approaches to new concepts, design new products and processes, read and interpret technical drawings with confidence, and analyze process data to create refined product specifications.
- Working on innovation projects and reviewing samples during product creation and commercialization, providing feedback to ensure cost-effective, high-quality deliverables that meet consumer expectations.
- Partnering to help develop new engineering best practices and update existing practices to improve quality, craftsmanship, performance, and efficiency.
Requirements
- You have a bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, experience, or training.
- You have a minimum of 4 years directly relevant work experience.
- You have a degree in Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Footwear Product Creation, Product Testing, Development, or a related field.
- You have industry experience in a footwear manufacturing or research and development field.
- You have knowledge of footwear construction, tooling, pattern engineering and manufacturing processes.
- You can balance Product Creation, Innovation & Manufacturing.
- You have strong creative problem-solving skills.
- You have project management skills, working with various stakeholders with competing priorities.
- You can read and interpret technical drawings, sketches, and/or 3D digital files.
- You have digital literacy, including familiarity with Microsoft Office, Miro Board, spreadsheets, database management, and proficiency with 2D/3D CAD/CAM tools, and pattern engineering software.
- You have strong written & verbal communication skills.
- You can travel internationally up to 10%, as needed.
- You are detailed and accuracy oriented, with strong organizational skills.
- You demonstrate initiative, agility, and commitment, while balancing autonomy and collaboration.
- You are proactive in identifying the root cause of issues and develop the best solutions.
Benefits
- Competitive bonus program
- Health insurance
- 401k plan
- Paid time off
- Employee discounts
