Senior Product Development Project Manager, New Products

Nex is on a mission to help families rediscover the joy of movement. Created by parents for parents Nex combines technology and play to deliver fun social and interactive experiences powered by natural body motion encouraging kids and adults to move more play more and have fun together. Nex Playground the companys award-winning active play system is purpose-built to get families moving year-round with safety and privacy as core considerations in its intentional design. It is certified kidSAFE COPPA compliant and built to support healthy active play for all ages and abilities.

Nex Playground features a growing library of 50 experiences including motion and dance games fitness and educational experiences and Nex Originals. Content includes collaborations with partners like Hasbro Sesame Workshop and NBCUniversal. Nex has been recognized by Fast Companys Most Innovative Companies TIMEs Best Inventions and Parents Best Entertainment System for Families and has earned Red Dot IDEA and Core77 international design awards. We encourage you to explore Have FunandIs Motion Gaming Back as they offer a deeper look into our culture values and explain how our approach to motion gaming differs from previous generations.

Location: Hong Kong
Type: Full Time
Reports to: Head of Product Management New Products

The Role

As the Senior Product Development Manager for New Products you will lead endtoend development of soft and hard goods from concept through mass production and postlaunch refinement. You will translate business objectives and customer insights into clear requirements align teams on scope schedule quality and cost and drive execution across industrial design materials packaging testing compliance and supply chain. You will be the primary interface to external partners and factories protecting design intent and manufacturability ensuring regulatory readiness and proactively managing risks budgets and change control. Success is measured by ontime delivery to quality and cost targets smooth scaleup and crisp communication of status tradeoffs and decisions.

What Youll Do

• Own multiple soft and hard goods programs endtoend delivering to scope schedule quality and cost.
• Translate product requirements into clear specs with design and engineering; protect design intent while ensuring manufacturability.
• Drive with cross functional team for DFx across plastics textiles and mixedmaterial assemblies including part design tolerances surface finishes seams trims and assembly.
• Lead prototyping through production readiness: lab dips/strikeoffs T0/T1 golden samples tooling sampling and approvals.
• Source evaluate and onboard vendors and manufacturing partners; manage performance on cosmetic quality yield throughput and cost.
• Work with packaging team to coordinate packaging from dielinesand artwork to structural validation transit tests and retail compliance.
• Plan and execute validation and reliability: fit/function abuse and sharpedge seam and pull tests colorfastness and process capability.
• Work with compliance team to managesafety and regulatory approvals for toys and consumer goods and define precompliance strategies.
• Establish QA/QC with AQL sampling inprocess controls and final inspections; drive CAPA with vendors.
• Maintain program dashboards and cadences with clear updates dependencies risks and tradeoffs for stakeholders.

Must Have

• 10 years in program or product development delivering soft and hard goods at scale.
• Strong grasp of ME CMF and DFx with manufacturing processes such as injection/blow molding extrusion diecutting sewing heat sealing printing and assembly.
• Background spanning textiles and plastics color management printing methods packaging materials and surface treatments.
• Demonstrated experience with packaging engineering and transit testing and with QA/QC in factory environments.
• Fluency with project tools and artifacts including schedules timeline views risk registers dashboards BOMs and change orders.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management; able to drive alignment across design operations sourcing and vendors.
• Fluency in English and Mandarin.

Nice to Have

• PMP or comparable program management certification.
• Handson experience with toy and consumergoods safety and regulatory labs.
• Rapid prototyping fluency across soft and hard goods with tight iteration cycles.
• Strong supplier development chops: vendor scorecards QBRs corrective action leadership and dualsourcing strategy
• Contract and commercial negotiation experience with suppliers on cost MOQs tooling amortization and SLAs
• Experience with sustainability initiatives such as recycled content packaging minimization and ecolabeling claims.

Travel and Time zones

• Travel: International travel to factories and labs as needed
• Timezone: Will collaborate across timezones with our global teams

We Offer

• Competitive compensation package.
• Flexible working hours and vacation policy.
• Product-driven culture that treasures talents and individual growth.
• Front-row seat and hands-on experience with cutting edge technologies in the evolving gaming field

Nex is located inSan Jose California USAandHongKong. Learn more about us at encourage applications even if you dont meet more than 50% of the requirements we believe that experience comes in many forms!