About Us
Day to day life has room for improvement.
That was our basic thinking when we founded simplehuman in 2000. Our mission is to bring high-performance and sustainable innovation to basic but essential tasks in our daily routine at home. Through new technologies, meticulous engineering and an obsession for improvement, we find new and better ways to achieve basic but important daily tasks.
About the role
simplehuman is seeking a Product Lead to join our product team. The Product Lead owns our product development lifecycle. Scope includes management of product concept design, engineering, testing, manufacturing, bring-to-market, and product support. The Product Lead must possess the ability to make decisions collaboratively, drive projects to completion with urgency, make technical product decisions, and make sound business decisions. The Product Lead must be in constant communication with our manufacturers and vendors, as well as internal teams. This position participates in key decision-making and works with crucial stakeholders in the company, and will directly impact the simplehuman product line and brand. This is an on-site position located in our Torrance, CA office.
Responsibilities
- Own assigned products; act as main point of contact
- Develop new products and improve existing products
- Manage all aspects of the product development cycle, including proof of concept, ID, engineering, packaging, cost, sales & marketing, tooling, QC, production and after-market product improvements
- Control and direct all stakeholders, including contractors, vendors, manufacturing, and internal teams
- Keep development timelines on-schedule
- Maintain timely communications between all parties
- Manage multiple concurrent projects (usually at different stages of the life cycle)
- Deliver projects under the budget, resource and time constraints established in the project plan
- Oversee manufacturing and supplier development as needed
About You
- Bachelor’s degree
- Possess a sense of urgency and initiative
- Analytically smart, ability to solve problems
- Detail-oriented with strong project management ability
- Polished and articulate verbal and written communication
- Energetic, assertive, and personable personality
- Some experience in consumer products or consumer electronics a plus
- Mandarin language ability a plus
Culture
We are an established company with the soul of a start-up. We value ingenuity, precise communications, fast iteration and scrappiness. Our teams are tight-knit with a work hard, play hard tradition – we take pride in individual and team success and push boundaries to make the best products. And we only build products we love to use ourselves.
- Cool office with full-court gym + fitness activities/classes (basketball, yoga, volleyball, badminton, krav maga, more) + weight room
- Free weekly breakfasts + birthday celebrations + holiday parties/trips + juice club
- Great benefits + Competitive compensation
- Generous simplehuman product discounts