THE ROLE

We are seeking a Product Development Manager, Bedding to join our growing team at Quince. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring products are launched in a timely manner while achieving the highest quality standards.

Role Overview

The Product Development Manager is a hands-on, factory-based execution role embedded directly within Quince’s vendor ecosystem. Operating primarily on-site at finished-goods and materials factories, this role owns real-time coordination, follow-up, and issue resolution required to keep development moving at speed and with precision.

The role is accountable for on-the-ground execution—driving accelerated sample development, validating documentation handoffs, expediting approvals, and ensuring development milestones are met without delay. By spending the majority of time in factories, the Product Development Manager enables faster decision-making, strengthens alignment between Quince and its vendors, proactively identifies development risks, and ensures products move efficiently from concept to production while meeting Quince’s quality, cost, and timeline expectations.

What success looks like:

• Accelerated time-to-market for new products, color/size extensions, and partner transitions. ● Reduced product development cycles from 28 weeks to 16 weeks. ● Perfect technical hand-offs to both raw material and finished good vendors. ● Streamlined sample development with sample rounds dropping from 2.4 to 2.0 per product, ensuring high approval rates. ● Achieve a 7 day average sample turnaround time ● Coordinator and manage efficient, robust product testing to uphold high-quality standards. ● Seamless and timely coordination across all teams. ● Replicate quality execution development for all re-sourcing of existing products to new vendors

Primary Accountabilities ● Development Timeline Ownership & Acceleration Own and actively manage the day-to-day product development timeline across new products, color and size extensions, vendor transitions, and refreshes. Ensure programs progress within the 16-week cycle target by tracking milestones, escalating risks early, and driving timely decision-making across teams. ● Cross-Functional Workflow & Orchestration Serve as the central point of coordination across Merchandising, Sourcing, Fit, Technical Development, Materials, QA, Creative, and Vendors. Ensure all parties are aligned on development status, next steps, and dependencies at every stage of the lifecycle. ● Build Sheet Handoff and Coaching Ensure all required product documentation is accurate, complete, and ready prior to vendor handoff. This includes technical specification sheets, build documentation, testing requirements, fit inputs, and any supporting materials needed for vendor execution. Ensure vendors understand and translate it correctly. ● Sample Development & Tracking Discipline Coordinate and track all sample requests, shipments, inbound reviews, fit requests, and revisions. Drive efficiency in sample development by maintaining momentum, minimizing rework, and supporting the target of ≤2.0 sample rounds per product. ● Approvals, Feedback Loops & Testing Coordination Facilitate timely product reviews and approvals by Merchandising, Fit, and Technical teams. Track testing requests and results, ensuring products complete required performance or quality testing and that outcomes are clearly communicated to all stakeholders. ● In-Country Development Trip Management Run in-person country development trips with Global Merchants and Global Fit teams to accelerate decision-making, resolve issues at the source, and strengthen vendor execution. ● Production & Launch Readiness Coordination Support timely staging of materials and finished-goods production in partnership with Sourcing. Coordinate on-time delivery of photo samples to Creative teams to ensure marketing readiness and launch timelines are met. ● Tools, Systems & Process Hygiene Maintain clean, accurate, real-time data across all product development systems,including the Product Catalog and tracking tools. Ensure systems reflect current status, ownership, and next actions to support transparency and fast execution. Travel Expectations (Core Role Requirement) This role is factory-based with heavy travel and requires consistent presence at vendor sites. ● Travel Frequency: Up to 4 days per week on-site at factories ● Regions: Key sourcing regions, depending on vendor base ● Duration: Ongoing, embedded travel rather than occasional trips

Work Style: Hands-on, in-person coordination within sample rooms and factory offices

This role is not suited for remote or primarily office-based candidates. Required Experience & Skills ● >8 years in product development or factory-facing roles ● Strong category expertise ● Strong experience working directly with factories and sample rooms ● Comfortable operating independently on-site ● Highly organised, detail-oriented, and execution-focused ● Clear communicator across language, cultural, and functional boundaries