VP of Product Development – Manufacturing

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

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✅ Product Manager

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Freebird

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11 - 50 employees

🏭 Manufacturing

💄 Beauty

🛒 Retail

Manufacturing • Beauty • Retail

Freebird is a company that specializes in creating innovative electric shavers, primarily for head shaving. Their flagship product, the FlexSeries®, is designed to provide a smooth and comfortable shaving experience specifically for bald and balding individuals. The company offers various kits and accessories, including pre-shave oils and post-shave lotions, to enhance the shaving process. Freebird is dedicated to improving the head shaving experience with products that are water-resistant, efficient, and gentle on the skin. They market their products with benefits such as fast shaving times, smooth results, and a reduction in irritation.

📋 Description

• 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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.