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Product Development Manager, Lighting/Home Decor/Cookware

Quince· Product Creation (PD/TD)
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Hybrid (Hong Kong; Shanghai, Shenzhen)Full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Role focused on accelerating development of new products across lighting, home decor, seasonal, and cookware categories, ensuring timely launches with high quality, and aligning cross-functional teams and vendor partners around shared product metrics and goals.

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; always open to considering new perspectives; proactive when changing course and facing added challenges
  • Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
  • Motivated by working in a fast-paced collaborative environment, where flexibility to stretch into or out of functional comfort zones is crucial for team success
  • Bachelor’s Degree, preferred

Skills

Required:Product development managementVendor coordinationDocumentation management
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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