Senior Product Development Manager

• Serve as the technical & manufacturing resource for materials interface with quality, sourcing, hardware engineering, sales, and marketing
• Develop and contribute ideas for product design, construction, materials, and compounds to enhance functionality, user experience, duty, compliance, and profit margin.
• Develop meaningful material specifications based on user, quality, and application requirements.
• Generate technical development briefs to communicate product details to domestic and international development partners
• Evaluate product team feedback and implement revisions as appropriate.
• Sign off on all specs prior to mass production qualification.
• Examine all prototypes to assure all specifications are correct and within product compliance, duty and cost targets.
• Contribute to user experience testing from early prototypes to final production material, implement product revisions as appropriate to meet user experience requirements
• Achieve timeline milestones for sample deliverables at appropriate maturities.