Head of Product Design, Development and Quality w/ a Sense of Humor

At Shinesty, our mission is to force the world to take itself less seriously. We make people laugh first and sell second. Our mothers don’t always approve of what we do, but the millions of people we’ve entertained over the years do.

Shinesty is one of the fastest growing consumer brands in existence. Our goal is to build the top irreverant retail brand in the world. This position will lead and build our product design and development team, taking our product from very good, to best in class. To succeed in this role, you must have a demonstrated history of success at an apparel company, incredibly high standards for product development and design, and a firm understanding of retail strategy. Application link is below!

Requirements

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Lead the Design and Development team through their process to create best-in-the-world quality products that keep customers coming back for more.
• Obsess over the customer. Digest and disseminate customer feedback to constantly improve Shinesty products.
• Understand the business case of each product or potential product then use that information to make better design decisions.
• Help us constantly improve our best-selling products while also pushing those initiatives forward cross functionally.
• Concept and work with the team to develop new innovative, high quality products that are top of line and within budget.
• Continuously innovate and push our product forward.
• Improve design and development processes to work more efficiently and develop high quality products faster.
• Provide solutions, not excuses, and don't settle for ‘good enough’.
• Responsible for upholding design integrity, high quality execution and timeliness throughout the entire development process from concept to production.
• Accountable for calendar adherence through the entire development process.
• Partner with the Merchandising team to ensure product alignment from concept to launch.
• Communicate new product ideas in milestone meetings and create finalized design briefs to be handed off throughout the company.
• Maintain excellent partnerships and clear communication with internal cross-functional teams including merch, ops and marketing.

Competencies:

• Business minded: Ensures all products coming through the Design and Development team adheres to business goals and customer needs - prioritizes self and team workload based on business priorities.
• Creative Visionary: incredible eye for design, branding, and an innate ability to implement vision into product.
• Excellent communication: ability to communicate and present vision in a compelling and inspiring way to the entire business.
• Incredibly high standards: expects personal & team performance to be nothing short of the best and seeks perfection in our products.
• Innovative: comes to the table with new and innovative product ideas and makes sure they happen.
• Takes Initiative: doesn’t wait for someone to give direction and works well autonomously. Seeks to find holes in owned processes and works to improve without being asked. Puts new ideas into action.
• People development: acts as player/coach to help the team improve performance.

Must Haves:

• A sense of humor
• 10+ years of experience in apparel development and design of new products including 2+ years in direct management of design and/or development team
• Experience working at an organization that consistently demonstrates product excellence
• Strong leadership skills with proven success in leading a team and the ability to speak truth to power
• Extensive experience with full product creation process from concept through production
• Extensive knowledge of fit, fabric, garment construction, trims and applications
• Experience with wovens and knits. Experience designing men’s products at a minimum, and a plus to also have experience with women’s products
• Working knowledge of technical design
• Experience building new teams and nurturing a strong, positive attitude and team dynamic
• Experience working with overseas apparel manufacturers
• Ability to travel overseas multiple times per year
• Experience working with and selecting factories directly

Nice to Haves:

• Merchandising or product management experience.
• Hands on costing experience
• Strong relationships with favored factories overseas
• Experience at fast growing DTC company
• Supply chain experience
• Fabric and trim R&D

Benefits

• Stock options in Shinesty, be an owner of the brand we build
• Competitive Salary plus generous bonus incentives
• Full medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Access to beautiful downtown Denver office when you want it, but no requirement to work from office
• Open to remote with travel but strong preference for Denver - we will pay to relocate
• Shinesty will cover relocation costs
• Dog friendly office
• Flexible PTO, no need to accrue time and you can take as much as you'd like
• 12 weeks paid for maternity leave, 6 weeks for paternity leave
• Flexible working hours, just get your stuff done and generate results
• All the tools and resources you need to be successful in this role