Lead Footwear Product Developer

4 ore fa

Giavera del Montello, Italia Scott Sports SA A tempo pieno

Overview As Lead Footwear Product Developer, you act as the bridge between performance innovation and cultural relevance. You ensure that every product combines cutting-edge technologies with authentic lifestyle appeal — translating consumer-driven insights and design vision into market-ready footwear that defines the future of Dolomite. At the same time, you play a key role in building and empowering a world-class development team, fostering expertise, creativity, and collaboration across the organization. Responsibilities Drive the end-to-end development process from concept to final product, ensuring technical excellence, quality, and brand DNA alignment. Contribute ideas for product design, construction, materials, and components to enhance functionality, aesthetics, compliance, fit and product margin. Act as the hub between design, product management, operations, and factory partners, ensuring clear alignment on goals and deliverables. Source and validate advanced materials, constructions, and sustainable solutions that meet performance and aesthetic needs. Manage sampling and prototyping across all development phases (e.g. T1, T2, T3, T4, CFM samples) including wear-testing, and refinement cycles to guarantee comfort, performance, and consumer appeal. Review and confirm all bottom tooling blueprints prior to opening sample and production molds. Ensure timelines, cost targets, and quality standards are consistently achieved across multiple projects. Actively communicate with the product creation team during all phases of the development process, co-determining and executing the decision-making process that leads to on-time product sample delivery. Visit the production line on a regular basis with a focus on product quality and process improvement. Be responsible for ensuring that correct information is fed into the PLM system. Support team members with clear guidance, feedback, and opportunities for growth while driving accountability and excellence. Qualifications Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Product Development, Pattern Making, Manufacturing, or a related field. 7+ years of experience in footwear product development within performance, lifestyle, or sportstyle segments. Proven ability to work across both high-performance and lifestyle-focused projects. Deep understanding of lasts, tooling, cushioning systems, and upper constructions and outsoles. Knowledge of industry tooling processes, including 2D/3D CAD, proficient in Adobe Illustrator, strong knowledge of pattern engineering & mold making. Strong sense of market trends, consumer expectations, and cultural drivers shaping footwear today. Track record of managing cross-functional projects from concept to commercialization. Experience collaborating with factories and material suppliers across Asia and Europe. Strong organizational skills with proven ability to manage multiple seasonal projects. Consumer-centric mindset, with passion for innovation, performance, and lifestyle-driven products. Fluent in English; additional languages are an advantage. Willingness to travel internationally (up to 30%). #J-18808-Ljbffr

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