Product Developer - Fashion & Accessories (Hybrid)

Randa Corp; Rosemont (IL); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Randa Apparel & Accessories in Rosemont, IL, seeks a Product Developer to own development from concept through production readiness. You will ensure accurate data, feasibility, sample evaluation, and timely handoffs with cross-functional teams to meet design intent, quality, and cost goals.

The role involves collaboration with Design, Merchandising, Sourcing, suppliers, and factories to identify risks, drive solutions, and deliver production-ready products.

Qualifications

• Experience in Product Development, sourcing, supply chain, merchandising, technical product development, or another related product-creation role.
• Strong knowledge of product construction, materials, components, style setup, product information management, BOMs, specifications, samples, approvals, factory communication, and production readiness.
• Experience owning products through development, PP and TOP sample evaluation and approval, commercialization, and production handoff.
• Ability to evaluate product feasibility and workmanship, troubleshoot product and manufacturing issues, recommend solutions, and drive cross-functional follow-through.
• Ability to balance design intent, quality, cost, manufacturability, and timing when making product-development recommendations.
• Experience using PLM, reporting, analytics, automation, AI-enabled tools, and emerging technologies to improve product-development execution and processes.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day development execution for assigned products from initial development through production readiness.
• Maintain and evaluate accurate style setup, Bills of Materials (BOMs), product records, specifications, and development documentation.
• Ensure product information is complete, accurate, and aligned across systems, suppliers, factories, and internal teams.
• Evaluate product construction, materials, components, fit/specifications, workmanship, and manufacturing feasibility throughout development.
• Partner with Design, Merchandising, Sourcing, suppliers, and factories to balance design intent, quality, cost, manufacturability, and timing.
• Identify material, construction, and manufacturing solutions that support product, quality, and cost objectives.
• Troubleshoot product, material, construction, quality, cost, and manufacturing challenges and recommend practical solutions.
• Evaluate development, pre-production (PP), and top-of-production (TOP) samples against approved product direction, specifications, workmanship, and established quality standards.
• Drive sample corrections, approval cycles, revisions, and documentation required to achieve production readiness.
• Maintain visibility to customer, licensor, factory, business, and production deadlines, dependencies, open actions, and risks.
• Identify development or execution risks early, determine appropriate recovery actions, and esc
• Partner with Sourcing and factory teams to assess manufacturing capabilities and identify appropriate construction methods and development solutions.
• Own accurate documentation, tracking, follow-up, and development-to-production handoffs for assigned products.
• Make informed product-development recommendations and drive actions needed to protect product readiness and established business commitments.
• Share product-development knowledge, reinforce established best practices, and provide guidance to Associate Product Developers.
• Identify recurring execution challenges and use PLM, analytics, reporting, automation, AI-enabled tools, and emerging technologies responsibly to improve consistency, quality, speed, and productivity.

Skills

Product development

Sourcing

Merchandising

Communication

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

PLM software

Analytics tools

AI-enabled tools

Job description

Randa Apparel & Accessories in Rosemont, IL, seeks a Product Developer to own development from concept through production readiness. You will ensure accurate data, feasibility, sample evaluation, and timely handoffs with cross-functional teams to meet design intent, quality, and cost goals.

The role involves collaboration with Design, Merchandising, Sourcing, suppliers, and factories to identify risks, drive solutions, and deliver production-ready products.