VP of Product Development – Manufacturing

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🇺🇸 Vereinigte Staaten – Remote

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Freebird

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11 - 50 Mitarbeiter

🏭 Fertigung

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Manufacturing • Beauty • Retail

Freebird ist ein Unternehmen, das sich auf die Entwicklung innovativer elektrischer Rasierer spezialisiert hat, hauptsächlich für die Kopfrasur. Ihr Flaggschiffprodukt, die FlexSeries®, ist darauf ausgelegt, ein glattes und komfortables Rasiererlebnis speziell für Glatzköpfige und Menschen mit Haarausfall zu bieten. Das Unternehmen bietet verschiedene Sets und Zubehörteile an, darunter Prä-Rasur-Öle und Nach-Rasur-Lotionen, um den Rasierprozess zu verbessern. Freebird hat sich der Verbesserung des Kopfrasiererlebnisses verschrieben, mit Produkten, die wasserfest, effizient und schonend zur Haut sind. Sie vermarkten ihre Produkte mit Vorteilen wie schnellen Rasierzeiten, glatten Ergebnissen und einer Reduzierung von Irritationen.

Beschreibung

• Lead end-to-end development of Freebird's hardware and personal care products from concept through commercialization. • Translate consumer needs, market opportunities, and business objectives into product requirements and development priorities. • Define product architectures, specifications, performance requirements, and development plans. • Evaluate whether to build, adapt, source, customize, or partner. • Lead benchmarking, prototyping, testing, validation, and iterative improvement. • Lead industrial design, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and technical development. • Establish engineering requirements, design reviews, technical milestones, and validation standards. • Select and manage internal and external design, engineering, testing, manufacturing, and technology partners. • Build and manage networks of factories, ODMs, component suppliers, engineering partners, and specialist manufacturers. • Lead supplier identification, qualification, RFQs, negotiations, tooling, production readiness, manufacturing ramp, and second-source strategies. • Own development from concept through engineering, prototype, EVT, DVT, PVT, tooling, pilot production, and mass production. • Establish milestones, development gates, critical paths, risk management, and launch-readiness criteria across concurrent programs. • Establish engineering, reliability, consumer-validation, lifecycle-testing, factory-quality, failure-analysis, and corrective-action processes. • Drive continuous improvement using customer feedback, returns, warranty data, and product performance. • Influence target COGS, BOM architecture, DFM/DFA, tooling economics, manufacturing yields, supplier negotiations, and value engineering. • Lead and develop capabilities across engineering, sourcing, NPI, quality, program management, and manufacturing. • Travel to China and other manufacturing locations as required.

🎯 Anforderungen

• 12+ years of experience in consumer hardware product development, engineering, manufacturing, sourcing, NPI, or closely related functions. • 5+ years of experience leading multidisciplinary product, engineering, development, or manufacturing teams. • Demonstrated success taking sophisticated physical products from concept through mass production. • Significant experience with high-volume electromechanical consumer products. • Deep firsthand experience working directly with China-based factories and suppliers. • Strong mechanical and electrical product fluency. • Experience with motors, batteries, electronics, charging systems, PCBs, tooling, molded components, waterproofing, and precision mechanical systems. • Strong knowledge of EVT, DVT, PVT, DFM, tooling, validation, and production ramp. • Experience identifying, qualifying, negotiating with, and developing manufacturing and technology partners. • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent development programs. • Strong understanding of product quality, reliability, COGS, manufacturing economics, and supplier performance. • Strong executive communication, decision-making, and cross-functional leadership skills. • Preferred: experience in shaving and grooming, trimmers, clippers, blades, foils, cutting systems, personal care devices, beauty devices, small appliances, or precision electromechanical consumer products. • Experience developing products for large-scale DTC, Amazon, and mass-retail distribution is highly valuable.

🏖️ Vorteile

• Remote-first & flexible. Work from anywhere with autonomy and trust (regular travel to China and other manufacturing locations required). • Competitive compensation, rewarding the impact you make. • Medical, dental & vision insurance. Health coverage for you and your family. • 401(k) with company match. • Unlimited PTO. Recharge when you need it. • Own the entire physical product platform, with the authority and accountability that comes with it. • Proven consumer demand and brand awareness already in place - you're building the next generation of product, not starting from zero. • A product roadmap built for real engineering: sophisticated electromechanical hardware with room to push materials, performance, and manufacturability. • A leadership team that moves fast, makes decisions, and gives operators room to operate. • No politics, just execution. We value ownership, collaboration, and solving problems together. • The chance to write the product-development playbook for a brand that has already proven it can win.