Director, Product Development

Boll & Branch is seeking a highly-qualified Director of Product Development to join our dream team. In this key role, you'll lead a team of 4 amazing product developers to take our robust pipeline of products from concept to finished good. You'll have the opportunity to work with the most talented product team in the world, teaming up with top talent across design, merchandising, and supply chain teams 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 theright way.As Director of Product Development, you will lead with curiosity, intention, detail 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.

While we are all working from home at the moment, you will ultimately be working from our Summit, NJ Home Office.

Specifically, the Director of Product Development will: 

• Oversee a team of product developers from initial concept to finished good across the entire Boll & Branch product portfolio.
• Be an exceptional creative problem solver, consistently leading with solutions and ideas.
• Be an expert in product construction, fabric development and factory capabilities (lead times, MOQs, and first costs). 
• Have strength in time & action management. Able to develop and templatize the product development calendar from inception to finished good. Seek to constantly improve our speed to market. 
• Ensure product development milestones and calendar dates are met and appropriate visibility is provided to the business (executive level summary, T&A visibility cross-functionality). Partner with cross functional counterparts to ensure we are delivering quality product, on time. 
• Lead PLM implementation. Oversee data importing, product setup, T&A building, trainings, and adoption across functions etc. 
• Work closely with sourcing and supply chain to identify suppliers that can support product design. Partner with the supply chain team to obtain certification validation, traceability of supply chain and verify all claims on each product line.
• 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, developing fabric and has successfully led a team, preferably in home. 
• Obsesses about details. They are intimately involved in the creation of their good and ensure they know every facet of product and its contribution 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.
• Is exceptionally organized in managing a team and calendar to ensure the teams time and resources are being managed efficiently.
• Is able to manage to a budget. 
• Nice to have: Experience/leadership with performance testing, regulatory and claims.

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 30+ locations to reach consumers everywhere they shop.

Boll & Branch LLC is an equal opportunity employer. No recruiters or phone calls, please.

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