Senior Manager, Product Development

Boll & Branch is seeking a highly-qualified Senior Manager of Product Development to join our dream team. In this key role, you'll be responsible for the development of home textiles and accessories. You’ll have the opportunity to be part of a growing team to take our robust product pipeline from initial concepts to final products. You’ll team up with top talent across design, merchandising, and supply chain to bring products that uphold the highest standards of ethics, sustainability, and quality to market.

Boll & Branch has been one of the fastest-growing consumer brands in the world and on the heels of a recent $100MM investment from L Catterton, we are poised to grow even faster. Boll & Branch is a unique, values-driven Company with a relentless focus on doing business the right way. As Senior Manager of Product Development, you will lead with curiosity, intention and persistence to balance quality, time and price. The ideal candidate is highly motivated, and has a proactive, positive attitude, and a passion for making exceptional products.

This role will ultimately be based out of our Summit, NJ HQ.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Oversee the development of home textiles and accessories from initial concept to finished products
• Be an expert in product construction, lead times, MOQs, and analyzing first costs
• Have strength in time & action management to ensure product development milestones and calendar dates are met
• Coordinate the required materials needed to hit each PD milestone (examples include: issuing artwork files, requesting and tracking factory submits, pricing/MOQs/lead times, physical samples, lab dips, product testing, follow-up questions/research needed in product development)
• Represent Boll & Branch with daily communications with our factories and mills; Always act with kindness, patience and fairness when working with our partners
• Adopt PLM as a tool for development
• Partner with cross-functional counterparts
  • Partner with design and merchandising to ensure products are made that meet our company goals (follow brand standards, while meeting cost targets, that deliver exceptional products to the customer)
  • Partner with the supply chain team to obtain certification validation, traceability of supply chain and verify all claims on each product line
  • Develop and follow our SOPs across factory partners, as it pertains to PD
• Be an exceptional creative problem solver, consistently leading with solutions and ideas
• Contribute to ideation by partnering with our suppliers to develop new products to propose to merchandising and design. Also, actively monitor new competitive introductions and industry technologies and determine how they can apply to brand strategy and category expansion.

The ideal candidate:

• Has 10+ years experience making products in home textiles
• Obsesses about details; They are intimately involved in the creation of each product and ensure they know every facet relating to quality, performance, aesthetics, etc.
• Is praised and respected for their creative problem solving
• Is personally passionate about their developments and are excited for the work they create
• Enjoys building relationships with factory partners and working with natural materials

About Boll & Branch:

Scott and Missy Tannen started Boll & Branch in 2014 to bring better organic cotton sheets to the world at a fair price. Today, we’re a company of nearly 100 people, headquartered in Summit, New Jersey, with a second office in Manhattan. We’ve expanded our initial offering of organic cotton sheets to a growing assortment of 300 ethically and sustainably made home items, each one designed to improve the lives of makers and consumers alike. Our company, like each of our products, is Crafted for the Common Good.

At Boll & Branch, we value self-awareness, intellectual honesty, judgment, empathy, and positive energy. We come to work each day with a real passion for our jobs because when we do our jobs well, our community benefits. The organic farmers and skilled factory workers we work with are paid and treated fairly, and our customers sleep more soundly on best-in-class bedding. Humanism is at the core of our philosophy for sounder sleep, and we’re immensely proud of the impact we’ve made in our nearly seven years in business. To learn more about our sustainability model, please read our Impact Report.

In 2019, to propel our growth, we raised $100M from L Catterton, a leading consumer goods private equity fund. We also are expanding our retail and wholesale footprint. While the heart of our business lies in the direct-to-consumer online model, we also have three retail stores around the country as well as a partnership with Nordstrom in 20+ locations to reach consumers everywhere they shop.

Boll & Branch LLC is an equal opportunity employer.