Position summary

*Asia based product developer and project manager. Manages the development process and are the eyes, ears, and hands of the USA based saddle product management team.
*As an extension of the brand, they are to uphold the standards of performance, quality, integrity and delivery Specialized customers and riders expect.
*Ensures component spec’s, colors, costs and test results meet the expectations of the product management team and are approved in time for production.
*Maintains a set weekly meeting schedule with the product teams and vendor base is essential to success. Maintaining the component development tracking tool with the results from these meetings and being able to report the status for a given project for deliver control is standard work for this role.
*The Lead Saddle Developer is chartered with getting the most out of our vendors, so relationship skills and communications are as important as technical knowledge and work ethic.
*As a direct extension of the SBC USA office, at times the Lead Saddle Developer will need to act as leader in diagnosing, solving and defining a corrective action plan when product issues arise that threaten production.



Role Responsibilities

Product Development:

*Work with SBC and manufacturers to develop new components, materials, finishes and systems in line with the design direction and product brief
*Ride, understand the needs of riders, participate in the categories you work on to bring rider empathy to the work you do.

Data Management:

*Manage Product information: pricing, approvals, test results, photos, color matching, component specification and descriptions.
*Manage CAD/modify CAD files as needed to drive product development timelines

Quality\Compliance:

*Communicate issues found in the field and work with Quality and Engineering teams to expedite our response and ability to solve them.
*Work with QC on the diagnosis and holding the vendors accountable when production issues are found.
*Work with Suppliers and uphold SBC policy and ensure vendor alignment with SBC strategy.
*Collaborate with Compliance to ensure ALL new components and combinations are tested

Supply Chain:

*Helping to discover new sourcing options & new technologies and introduce them to the team for future business consideration.
*Work with suppliers closely to build and maintain the relationship and trust
*Work with suppliers to improve product performance, quality, testing and delivery while pushing them to innovate both in product and manufacturing to bring new products to market with improved efficiency.
*Collaborate with Supply Chain Team to ensure on time delivery of components

Skills & Knowledge:

*Great communication skills in English and Mandarin (speaking and typing).
*Proficient at working with vendors to convert engineering CAD to tooling CAD and to work through issues taking projects through R&D to commercialization. Bonus points if that experience is in Pro engineer/PTC Creo engineer software.
*Experience setting quality guidelines and working through quality issues that come up throughout development and production.
*Capable of establishing testing standards (ISO and proprietary standards to Specialized).
*Capable of managing timelines and reporting progress daily if necessary, weekly at a minimum.
*Jira and Confluence knowledge a plus
*Familiar with MS system (Outlook, Word, Excel etc.)
*Location: Dongguan



Experience

*Preferred 8-10 years of experience as a product developer or product engineer of consumers goods. Bonus points if that experience is developing saddles or other cycling components.




角色职责

产品开发：
61 与SBC和制造商合作，开发符合设计方向和产品概要的新组件、材料、表面处理和系统。
61 进行骑行、理解骑行者的需求，参与工作涉及的类别，将骑行者的同理心融入工作中。

数据管理：
61 管理产品信息：定价、审批、测试结果、照片、颜色匹配、组件规格和描述。
61 管理CAD/根据需要修改CAD文件，以推动产品开发时间线。

质量/合规：
61 传达在实地发现的问题，并与质量和工程团队合作，加快响应和解决能力。
61 在生产问题出现时，与质量控制部门合作，确保供应商承担责任。
61 与供应商合作，遵守SBC政策并确保供应商与SBC战略一致。
61 与合规团队合作，确保所有新组件和组合经过测试。

供应链：
61 协助发现新的采购选择和技术，并将其介绍给团队以供未来业务考虑。
61 与供应商紧密合作，建立并保持信任关系。
61 与供应商合作，提高产品性能、质量、测试和交付，同时推动他们在产品和制造方面进行创新，以更高效的方式推出新产品。
61 与供应链团队协作，确保组件按时交付。

技能和知识：
61 具备出色的中英文沟通能力（口语和书面）。
61 熟练与供应商合作，将工程CAD转为模具CAD，并解决问题，将项目从研发推进至商业化。如果有使用Pro engineer/PTC Creo工程软件的经验更佳。
61 有设定质量标准的经验，并能处理开发和生产过程中出现的质量问题。
61 能够建立测试标准（ISO标准和Specialized的专有标准）。
61 能够管理时间线，并在必要时每天报告进度，至少每周报告一次。
61 了解Jira和Confluence优先。
61 熟悉MS系统（Outlook、Word、Excel等）。
61 工作地点：东莞



经验：
61 优先考虑有8-10年消费品产品开发或产品工程师经验的候选人。如果有座垫或其他自行车零部件开发经验更佳。