Product Development Manager, Soft Home (Rugs/Windows)
Hybrid (Bengaluru, Delhi)full-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Role to accelerate development of new Soft Home products (rugs/windows) with a focus on timely launches, high quality, and cross-functional alignment across Merchandising, Sourcing, Fit, Technical Development, Materials, QA, Creative, and Vendors.
Responsibilities
- Own and actively manage day-to-day product development timelines across new products, color and size extensions, vendor transitions, and refreshes, tracking milestones and escalating risks early.
- Serve as the central point of coordination across Merchandising, Sourcing, Fit, Technical Development, Materials, QA, Creative, and Vendors to ensure alignment on development status and dependencies.
- Ensure all required product documentation is accurate, complete, and ready prior to vendor handoff, including technical specifications, build documentation, testing requirements, and fit inputs.
- Coordinate and track all sample requests, shipments, reviews, fit requests, and revisions to drive efficiency and maintain momentum toward target timelines.
- Facilitate timely product reviews and approvals by Merchandising, Fit, and Technical teams; track testing requests and results to ensure quality outcomes are clearly communicated.
- Run in-person country development trips with Global Merchants, Global Fit, and Local PD teams to accelerate decision-making and strengthen vendor execution.
- Partner with Sourcing to support timely staging of materials and finished-goods production; coordinate delivery of photo samples to Creative to ensure marketing and launch readiness.
- Maintain clean, accurate, real-time data across all product development systems and tracking tools to ensure transparency and support fast execution.
Qualifications
- 10+ years in product development or factory-facing roles
- Deep functional category expertise, including product and material standards
- Extensive experience working directly with factories and sample rooms
- Comfortable operating independently and navigating ambiguity
- Highly organized, detail-oriented and analytical with focus on execution, problem-solving, improving processes and quality enhancement
- Clear communicator across language, cultural, and functional boundaries
- Proven track record of progressing within an organization and demonstrating continuous growth in roles and responsibilities
- Continuous learner and highly curious; open to new perspectives; proactive when facing challenges
- Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
- Motivated by working in a fast-paced collaborative environment with flexibility to stretch into/out of functional comfort zones
- Bachelor’s Degree, preferred
Skills
Required:Product development timelinesCross-functional coordination
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package
- Opportunity to scale in a fast-growing D2C brand
- Collaboration with cross-functional teams
- Exposure to global vendor network
- Intellectually stimulating and fast-paced work environment
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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