Product Developer
- Category: Fashion Designer Jobs
- Location: Gold Coast, Queensland
- Job Type: Full Time / Part Time
- Salary: Estimated: $ 23K to 35K
- Published on: 2025/09/21
Our client is seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Product Developer to join their dynamic team. As a Product Developer, you will play a pivotal role in bringing fashion concepts to life, ensuring that they meet the standards of quality, cost, and timeline. You will collaborate closely with designers, suppliers, and manufacturers to execute product development from initial concept through to production.
Responsibilities
Forge and maintain a strong partnership with Design, providing technical insights during fittings and brainstorming solutions to ensure the design vision is realised.
Build and cultivate effective relationships with vendors, negotiating costs and aesthetic changes while understanding their capabilities.
Manage the critical path from concept to pre-production, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality prototypes aligned with margin targets. Proactively identify and address risks and challenges throughout the development process.
Demonstrate comprehensive technical knowledge across various leather product types, collaborating with Product Engineering for testing and safeguarding the design vision.
Support production meetings at vendors, ensuring technical requirements for prototypes and samples are production-ready.
About you
Collaborate effectively with Designers, translating their creative vision to teams and vendors.
Possess technical expertise in garment construction, pattern cutting, fabric construction, denim washes, printing techniques, embroidery, and embellishment.
Efficiently handle critical path management, meeting collection deadlines and addressing risks/challenges.
Manage budgets with a keen sense of commercial awareness throughout the product development process.
Exhibit excellent communication and negotiation skills, collaborating confidently with cross-functional teams.
Keen to hear more? Contact Sarah on 0421 771 *** or email an updated CV to ************@jivaro.com.au
Additional information
Travel opportunities
Relocation assistance
Team events + brand new office
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