Home Product Development & Sourcing Manager

Fourth Floor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Fourth Floor, a luxury sleepwear brand, is seeking a Product Development & Sourcing Manager to lead end-to-end development for our home categories, including bedding, pillows, blankets, throws, and seasonal decorative home accessories.

This role will drive research, material development, sourcing, costing, counter-sourcing, sampling, and production readiness. You will translate creative concepts into high-quality, cost-effective products globally.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of product development, sourcing, production, and materials experience in bedding, home textiles, soft home, or related categories.
• Strong technical knowledge of fibers, fabrics, fills, printing, dyeing, embroidery, quilting, finishing, sewing, knitting and soft-home construction.
• Demonstrated experience managing products from concept through production ready products
• Strong experience with global factory sourcing, supplier qualification, cost negotiation, counter costing, and counter sourcing
• Knowledge of FOB and landed cost analysis, MOQs, lead times, duties, freight, testing, and quality requirements
• Experience managing sample approvals, technical documentation, development and production timelines, and corrective actions
• Strong Excel, organizational, communication, and project-management skills
• Know basics in Adobe Illustrator
• Highly detail-oriented, proactive, commercially minded, and comfortable independently managing multiple priorities

Responsibilities

• Manage assigned products from concept through approved production.
• Conduct competitive, market, and material research to identify product innovations and cost-saving opportunities.
• Partner with design to communicate techpacks, specs, BOMs, construction requirements, and color comments to vendors and factories.
• Research and develop fabrics, yarns, fills, trims, finishes, labels, and packaging.
• Manage the sample process; material submissions, protos, revisions, pre-production, and TOPs reviewing for measurements, construction, materials, color, print, fill, function, and packaging.
• Coordinate product testing, quality requirements, and corrective actions with factories and vendors.
• Maintain development and production calendars, flagging delays, cost, quality, and sourcing risks early.
• Source, qualify, and assess factories, mills, and suppliers, including counter sourcing to qualify alternatives, on capability, quality, pricing, MOQs, lead times, capacity, and compliance.
• Request and analyze quote covering materials, labor, trims, testing, freight, duties, and other landed-cost components; conduct counter-costing to hit target pricing without sacrificing quality.
• Partner cross-functionally, providing clear recommendations, status updates, and issue escalation.

Skills

Product development

Sourcing

Production management

Materials knowledge

Cost negotiation

Project management

Excel

Communication

Detail-oriented

Tools

Adobe Illustrator

Job description

Fourth Floor, a luxury sleepwear brand, is seeking a Product Development & Sourcing Manager to lead end-to-end development for our home categories, including bedding, pillows, blankets, throws, and seasonal decorative home accessories.

This role will drive research, material development, sourcing, costing, counter-sourcing, sampling, and production readiness. You will translate creative concepts into high-quality, cost-effective products globally.