Product Developer - Technical Wear

Ridestore; Frihamnen; Hybrid; SEK 600 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading outerwear company in Gothenburg is seeking a passionate product developer to join their team. The role involves improving product development processes, testing designs, and collaborating with the design team. Ideal candidates should have experience in functional outerwear and strong knowledge of Illustrator. This full-time position requires on-site presence due to collaborative projects with flexibility for remote work.

Qualifications

• Experience in product development for functional outerwear.
• Deep knowledge of Illustrator.
• Clear understanding of lead times.

Responsibilities

• Continuously build and improve products over time.
• Test new designs and collaborate with the design team.
• Drive product enhancements and communicate feedback.
• Contribute to quality evaluation and feedback.
• Optimize the product development team's efficiency.
• Create and maintain tech drawing library for products.
• Track project stages and prioritize deliveries.
• Approach challenges with creativity and solutions.
• Share knowledge across the team.

Skills

Product development experience

Knowledge of Illustrator

Understanding product development processes

Job description

Since 2006, we’ve gone our own way. We love the products we co-create with our customers. It’s a dedication to exceptional quality in our products, as well as driving a great customer experience, that has led to the fact that you can find our two brands, Dope and Montec, on most slopes around the world. From one winter season to the next, we continually improve everything we do, and our products evolve alongside us and our customers.

What’s this role about, then?

To start with, you’ll dive into Ridestore, get to know your new teammates, understand what makes us unique, who’s who, what tools we use, explore our brands and products to grasp their current identities, where to get coffee, what kind of fabric the nerdy R&D guy is talking about… and… you get it; learn a lot about your new workplace.

Then, depending on your background and how fast you learn, we see you engaging in a variety of things in this role, some probably from day one, others way later:

• Iterative product development: You will continuously build and improve products over time, ensuring the creation of the best possible results while finding purpose and fulfillment.
• Test new designs: You’ll experiment with new ideas, identify design risks, and collaborate with the design team to make construction decisions that ensure quality and aesthetic alignment.
• Own product improvements: You’ll drive product enhancements and clearly communicate sample feedback to suppliers. You will suggest and test technical improvements, digging deep to understand why some constructions work and why others fail.
• Enhance technical quality: You'll contribute to building our quality by evaluating samples in detail and providing actionable feedback to our factories.
• Optimize the product development team: Support in building and refining ways of working that keep the team efficient and agile. You’ll be expected to bring a passion for improving how we approach product development.
• Build technical assets: Using Adobe Illustrator, you’ll create and maintain a high-quality tech drawing library for all products.
• Stay on top of projects: You’ll track project stages, prioritize urgent deliveries, and flag any potential delays.
• Solve problems: You’ll approach challenges with an open mind and creativity, driving solutions when issues arise.
• Share knowledge: We’re doing this together. You’ll leverage your technical expertise across the team and company to help people grow and gain a deeper understanding of our products.

Sounds interesting, right? What you read is meant to help you understand what we envision you driving and achieving, so you know where to aim. As we grow and change, you and the team may realize that your role needs to adapt and evolve. We welcome change, so this list should help you understand our expectations without limiting the future you.

You are…

• A passionate product developer
• A sociable person, comfortable in both giving and receiving feedback
• Self-driven and detail-oriented
• Autonomous, capable of handling projects independently
• A structured mind that can keep projects on track
• A problem-solver to tackle the coming bumps in the road
• A humble person who knows how to laugh
• Someone who loves working in a team

Your Experience

• Experience in product development for functional outerwear
• Deep knowledge of Illustrator
• A clear understanding of lead times and product development processes

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It's a full-time role based in our only office in Gothenburg. We would like you to live close to Gothenburg or relocate here so that you can work from the office approximately four days a week. Ridestore is distributed across several countries and has a great digital workplace, meaning we will also offer you the flexibility to work from home.

So, apply if you want to be part of a fun-loving and humble crew where we go our own way. Our journey is our goal; we want to continue learning and see where it takes us. We’ll offer you freedom in a passionate and somewhat snowy environment where you can impact the future of Ridestore with your work.

How we do it

Please do not spend any effort writing a cover letter before applying. Instead, you will have the opportunity to write answers to some questions that we find interesting for this role. In this role, we're working with our favorite external recruiter, Lisa. If you have any questions, please reach out to her! Good luck, and have fun!