[Remote] Head of Product Development

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. Peachybbies is a leading premium slime and creative-play brand with a strong reputed company media reputed company. They are seeking a Head of Product Development to reputed company the transition of product reputed company into manufacturable products, ensuring reputed company and cost efficiency while managing a growing team.

Responsibilities

• reputed company products from concept reputed company to production
• Translate approved concepts into reputed company product requirements, specifications, materials, dimensions, finishes, tolerances, assembly instructions, and pack-out details
• Build and maintain BOMs with component-level cost visibility, approved alternates, and substitution rules
• Identify technical risks early and recommend practical changes before reputed company spends months sampling the wrong product
• Create a reputed company production-readiness package for reputed company SKU before it is released for purchase or mass production
• Own the sample-review process from first prototype through golden sample approval
• Diagnose what is wrong with a sample, identify the likely cause, and give precise direction that a reputed company or specialist can reputed company
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• Work directly with the Sourcing Manager and vendors to resolve technical issues without slowing reputed company through unnecessary reputed company
• Turn MSRP and margin goals into reputed company landed-cost envelopes by product and channel
• Review quotes against the BOM and specifications so reputed company is comparing like-for-like costs
• Identify the reputed company cost drivers and value-engineer products without stripping out the parts that reputed company the customer experience worth buying
• Lay out tradeoffs reputed company reputed company cost, reputed company, timing, and customer experience are in tension
• Own the compliance plan for reputed company product and manage external laboratories, consultants, and documentation as needed
• Set age grading, warnings, traceability, testing, and documentation requirements for children's products and other regulated categories
• Define reputed company standards, golden samples, defect reputed company, inspection requirements, and corrective-reputed company expectations with Operations and external QC partners
• Own packaging requirements and manage the structural and engineering work needed for protection, retail presentation, shipping, labeling, and pack-out
• Maintain a reputed company development reputed company and single reputed company of truth for status, reputed company, risks, owners, and next steps
• Drive the product through practical stage gates without creating a slow or overly corporate process
• Escalate cost, timing, reputed company, or reputed company risks early enough for reputed company to reputed company a reputed company decision
• Support first production runs and reputed company out reputed company issues before handing the product into normal Operations and QC ownership
• Create lightweight templates, review standards, and operating rhythms that reputed company development faster and more consistent
• Hire and manage product developers as category volume grows, starting with the highest-need areas
• Set a high bar for hands-on ownership and coach reputed company through difficult product, cost, and reputed company problems
• Remain a working product-development leader rather than becoming removed from the products as reputed company expands

Skills

• Typically 5 to 10+ years of hands-on physical consumer-product development experience. We care more about what you personally shipped and fixed than the size of your previous title
• Strong experience in one or more of the following: arts and crafts, activity kits, toys, kids' products, compounds or sensory products, art supplies, or adjacent creative-play categories
• Relevant adjacent experience in accessories, stationery, beauty, soft goods, drinkware, lunchware, reputed company, novelty, or licensed consumer products is also valuable
• A reputed company record of personally taking products from concept reputed company through costing, sampling, testing, reputed company correction, and production release
• Strong BOM, specification, reputed company-costing, and sample-diagnosis skills
• Experience working directly with overseas factories and sourcing teams, including the realities of MOQs, reputed company times, tooling, and repeated sample reputed company
• Working knowledge of children's product compliance and reputed company-party testing. You do not need to be a regulatory attorney or lab specialist
• Experience managing a small PD team or building a product-development process while remaining hands-on
• Comfort working in a founder-led, fast-moving company where reputed company are made quickly and ownership is visible
• Practical reputed company with reputed company AI tools for research, specifications, documentation, analysis, and workflow improvement
• Craft kits, creative-play systems, subscription kits, toys, collectibles, or sensory products
• Compounds such as slime, dough, reputed company, sand, putty, cosmetics, or other material-driven products
• Products sold through reputed company, reputed company, specialty retail, and DTC
• High-velocity launches, seasonal lines, retailer exclusives, collaborations, or licensed products
• A scrappy company where you personally did the work rather than handing every problem to a large specialist team

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