Lead Product Engineer - UGG Footwear

About the role

The Role As a Lead Product Engineer, you’ll independently lead the development and validation of footwear across multiple product categories, with a particular focus on tooling. You’ll drive execution from concept through commercialization, ensuring alignment to design intent, manufacturability, cost targets, and quality standards. You’ll serve as a key technical partner across Design, Product Development, and Asia teams, influencing decisions, resolving tooling challenges, and advancing best practices within the product engineering organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead tooling development across assigned categories, ensuring alignment to design intent and engineering standards
• Create, refine, and implement tooling procedures, documentation standards, and best practices
• Provide technical guidance to team members and support consistent execution across projects
• Apply structured analytical approaches to resolve complex tooling issues and drive corrective actions
• Anticipate and mitigate risks early through trial analysis, modeling, and development insights
• Develop and enhance tooling SOPs, checklists, and process workflows to improve consistency and efficiency
• Track and improve key tooling KPIs and support vendor benchmarking and capability development
• Lead tooling readiness for commercialization, ensuring performance, durability, and aesthetic standards are met
• Provide training, coaching, and technical guidance to engineers to elevate team capability

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or related field (or equivalent industry experience)
• 6+ years in footwear engineering, tooling, or mold development
• Proven experience leading tooling development across multiple projects or categories from concept through commercialization
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex development challenges and anticipate risks across the product lifecycle
• Experience collaborating with global teams and Asia-based manufacturing partners
• Track record of improving processes, tooling performance, or development efficiency
• Strong technical knowledge of tooling construction and processes (EVA, rubber, PU, injection)
• Advanced problem-solving and root cause analysis capabilities using structured, data-driven approaches
• Ability to evaluate and interpret 2D/3D drawings, tooling blueprints, and engineering specifications
• Experience developing and improving processes, SOPs, and engineering best practices
• Strong cross-functional communication and collaboration skills
• Proficiency in PLM systems, Excel tracking tools, and engineering documentation

Qualifications

• Strong technical knowledge of tooling construction and processes (EVA, rubber, PU, injection)
• Advanced problem-solving and root cause analysis capabilities using structured, data-driven approaches
• Ability to evaluate and interpret 2D/3D drawings, tooling blueprints, and engineering specifications
• Experience developing and improving processes, SOPs, and engineering best practices
• Strong cross-functional communication and collaboration skills
• Proficiency in PLM systems, Excel tracking tools, and engineering documentation

Skills

• Strong technical knowledge of tooling construction and processes (EVA, rubber, PU, injection)
• Advanced problem-solving and root cause analysis capabilities using structured, data-driven approaches
• Ability to evaluate and interpret 2D/3D drawings, tooling blueprints, and engineering specifications
• Experience developing and improving processes, SOPs, and engineering best practices
• Strong cross-functional communication and collaboration skills
• Proficiency in PLM systems, Excel tracking tools, and engineering documentation

Benefits

• Financial Planning and wellbeing
• Time away from work
• Extras, discounts and perks
• Growth and Development
• Health and Wellness

Pay

$108,700.00 - $146,700.00

Schedule

Typical work schedule is 3 days per week in the office, specifically Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.