Product Developer

You will be primarily responsible for identifying and taking product ideas to finished products, ready to launch on Amazon and other online or offline channels wherever they fit. You will be working closely with the Brand Managers, Product Designer, Compliance Team, Quality Team, Marketing Team (or external agencies), and Operation Team.

This is an exciting full-time job opportunity for someone who wants to deepen their expertise of launching products on Amazon and outside Amazon with a full end-to-end process. Our company is based in Singapore and most of our team members are in Asia, but this is a fully remote position for any time-zone.

Responsibilities

You will be involved in the entire product development process, working across multiple functions to transform the initial concept into a viable commercial product.

• Collaborate with Brand Managers to evaluate the product development needs for the brands based on brand strategy and guidelines and discuss potential product ideas to build a pipeline of new products.

• Conduct market research to identify and evaluate new product ideas with customer-centric approaches to validate the ideas.

• Develop product objectives and specifications with consideration for efficacy, user experience, feasibility and cost after idea validation.

• Research, identify, and evaluate suppliers, communicate requirements such as specifications, costs, MOQ, lead time, order and evaluate samples, and select the ideal supplier for each project. Frequent travels to visit suppliers to share strategy, build long-term partnerships, and explore new product ideas are required.

• Coordinate with other team members, such as product designers, compliance, quality to communicate requirements to suppliers regarding compliance, quality, specification standards to make sure final sample design and quality is as expected.

• Work with marketing team or external agencies to ensure marketing related deliverables are done according to timeline and brand guideline, as well as operation team to ensure order placement and correct costs and MOQ.

• Manage the work plan for projects, coordinate and communicate with stakeholders to ensure projects are on track, completed and launched on time.

• Review performance of product launches based on pre-defined success metrics, follow up on improvements and share learnings for future product development.

Requirements

• 4-6+ years experience in a product development role within the toy, especially sensory toy, market with full end-to-end approach from ideation generation, validation, to sourcing, sample validation, quality inspection and mass production.

• At least 1-2 years experience in project management

• Highly organised and attention to details, as you will be managing multiple projects at once with concomitant timeline & deadlines

• Self-directed /pro-active & motivated to be able to make decisions and push projects forward each day, without always having clear directives from supervisors.

• Good understanding of the Western consumer, as we sell mainly in the US & Europe, and you will need to make product decisions accordingly.

• Great communication skills and ability to work with various project stakeholders.

• Experience dealing with suppliers in and out of China