Product Developer
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under Qualifications. Compensation: we have base salary range and additional rewards; we can make a Benefits section (includes FTO policy, bonuses, long-term incentives). Pay section: we could include Pay as part of Benefits or separate Pay section. The instruction: never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. It does state compensation and benefits, so we can have Pay and Benefits sections. But we could combine Pay and Benefits into one "Compensation and Benefits" section. However they said prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So maybe combine Pay and Benefits into one section titled "Compensation and Benefits". That would be substantive. Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Success Criteria, Qualifications, Compensation and Benefits. We need to use
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for prose.
We must preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all bullet points from responsibilities, requirements, success criteria, education/experience, compensation/benefits.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO, navigation, cookie, etc. Also remove duplicated lines.
We need to ensure we don't repeat job title as heading.
Let's extract content.
Intro: "The Role Rhoback is seeking an organized, proactive, and detail-oriented Product Developer to manage seasonal product development across assigned categories and vendors from initial concept through production handoff. This role is responsible for driving day-to-day development execution and ensuring product information, materials, trims, samples, costing, and approvals are accurate, organized, and delivered on time. The Product Developer will work closely with Design, Technical Design, Production, Merchandising, and global vendor partners to move product efficiently through the development lifecycle. As Rhoback continues to grow across categories and programs, this role will also support an expanding scope of Product Development responsibilities, including production support, submitting, packaging and hangtags, costing, testing, and special programs."
That's About the role.
Responsibilities (What You’ll Do): list of bullet points (each sentence starting with a verb). We need to convert each to
- . Let's list them:
- Own day-to-day product development across assigned categories, styles, and vendors from initial tech pack through production handoff.
- Manage multiple overlapping seasonal calendars and development priorities, ensuring key milestones and deliverables remain on track.
- Partner with Design and Technical Design to ensure tech packs, BOMs, specifications, construction details, and product requirements are complete and accurate prior to release.
- Manage Photo and SMS sample logistics, including tracking availability and timing, receiving and organizing samples, and coordinating transfers and shipments to photoshoots, sales reps, and other teams.
- Issue development requests and tech packs to vendors and maintain clear, timely communication throughout the development process.
- Coordinate prototype and development sampling, tracking comments, approvals, outstanding actions, and next steps through production readiness.
- Manage fabric, trim, color, print, packaging, and hangtag development, including applicable lab dips, strike-offs, trim submits, and approvals.
- Support SMS/Photoshoot and Bulk submit workflows, ensuring comments, approval status, and required follow-up are accurately communicated and tracked.
- Request, review, and track product costing throughout development; identify discrepancies and support cost-saving opportunities while protecting product quality.
- Partner with the Product Development Manager on target FOBs, costing strategy, and vendor negotiations.
- Manage vendor communication related to MOQ/MCQ requirements, surcharges, lead times, material availability, capabilities, and development constraints.
- Maintain accurate BOMs, colorways, and product information within PLM and other development tracking tools.
- Coordinate material and product testing requirements, track results, and follow up on corrective actions when needed.
- Monitor development timelines and proactively identify, communicate, and help resolve risks that could impact sampling, approvals, or production.
- Partner cross-functionally with Design, Technical Design, Production, Merchandising, and other teams to ensure product requirements, priorities, samples (SMS) and timelines remain aligned.
- Support development across growing business areas including Accessories, Collegiate, Special Projects, and future Pro programs as assigned.
That's many items; we will put them in a
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Requirements (What We’re Looking For): list:
- Strong understanding of the apparel product development process from concept through production handoff.
- Working knowledge of fabrics, trims, garment construction, color and print development, packaging, testing, and product approvals.
- Ability to independently manage multiple styles, vendors, categories, and seasonal timelines in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail, follow-through, and process discipline.
- Clear and effective written and verbal communication skills, particularly with global vendors and cross-functional partners.
- Ability to identify development risks, evaluate options, and work collaboratively toward practical solutions.
- Comfortable taking ownership of day-to-day execution while knowing when to escalate issues or seek additional direction.
- Working knowledge of apparel costing, MOQ/MCQ requirements, surcharges, lead times, and sourcing considerations.
- Ability to interpret and maintain tech packs, BOMs, specifications, and other product development documentation.
- Proactive, adaptable, and solutions-oriented mindset with a collaborative, team-first approach.
Success Criteria (What Success Looks Like): list:
- Assigned categories and vendors are managed with clear ownership, timely follow-up, and minimal oversight.
- Development milestones and deliverables are consistently completed on time and risks are surfaced early.
- Tech packs, BOMs, costing, materials, trims, submits, testing, and product information remain accurate and organized throughout development.
- Vendor communication is timely, clear, and actionable, with outstanding items actively driven to resolution.
- Products transition smoothly from development into production with minimal rework or unresolved development issues.
- Strong cross-functional partnerships are maintained across Design, Technical Design, Production, Merchandising, and vendor teams.
- The Product Development function gains capacity and scalability as seasonal volume, programs, and responsibilities continue to grow.
Education And Experience: list:
- 3-5+ years of product development experience, preferably within apparel or soft goods.
- Experience working directly with domestic and/or global vendors and factories.
- Demonstrated experience managing multiple styles and seasonal development timelines in a fast-paced environment.
- Proficiency with PLM systems, BOM management, and product development tracking tools; Centric PLM experience preferred.
- Strong understanding of apparel sourcing, costing, materials, trims, garment construction, and production considerations.
- Bachelor's degree in Fashion Merchandising, Apparel Development, Product Development, or a related field preferred, or equivalent professional experience.
Physical Requirement: note: "This role may invole performing job-related tasks that occasionally require physical activity, such as lifting, pushing, or pulling items 10 lbs or more, with our without reasonable accommodation." There's a typo "invole" and "our". We'll preserve as is? Probably keep the text but maybe fix typo? The instruction: preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Should we keep the typo? It's part of the posting; we should preserve it exactly. However we could correct obvious typo? The instruction says do not invent or summarize away detail; correcting a typo could be considered inventing? It's ambiguous. Safer to keep as is, but we could note the typo as is. We'll keep the sentence exactly as given.
Compensation: "Base salary range: $70,000 - $90,000 per year. Please note that actual salaries will vary based on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. Additional rewards may include performance bonuses, long-term incentives, an FTO policy, and many other progressive benefits. You may be assigned additional duties, activities, or responsibilities to support your professional growth and development within the organization and to meet evolving business needs. This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, or activities associated with this position. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may be modified, expanded, reassigned, or new ones assigned at any time, with or without notice."
We need to include compensation and benefits. The benefits: performance bonuses, long-term incentives, FTO policy, many other progressive benefits. Also note about additional duties etc. That's more generic; we could include as prose.
We'll create a section "Compensation and Benefits". Inside we can have for prose and
- for list of benefits.
List of benefits: performance bonuses, long-term incentives, an FTO policy, many other progressive benefits. We'll put those as
- .
We'll also include the base salary range as prose.
We'll also include note about actual salaries varying etc as prose.
We'll also include note about additional duties etc as prose.
We must not include EEO boilerplate etc. So we skip that.
Now produce HTML fragment.
Structure:
About the role
... intro paragraph ...
Responsibilities
- ...
...
Requirements
...
Success Criteria
...
Qualifications
...
Physical requirement note.
maybe after list.
Compensation and Benefits
Base salary range: $70,000 - $90,000 per year. Please note that actual salaries will vary based on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance.
- Performance bonuses
- Long-term incentives
- FTO policy
- Many other progressive benefits
You may be assigned additional duties, activities, or responsibilities to support your professional growth and development within the organization and to meet evolving business needs. This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, or activities associated with this position. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may be modified, expanded, reassigned, or new ones assigned at any time, with or
for prose. We must preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all bullet points from responsibilities, requirements, success criteria, education/experience, compensation/benefits. We must not include boilerplate like EEO, navigation, cookie, etc. Also remove duplicated lines. We need to ensure we don't repeat job title as heading. Let's extract content. Intro: "The Role Rhoback is seeking an organized, proactive, and detail-oriented Product Developer to manage seasonal product development across assigned categories and vendors from initial concept through production handoff. This role is responsible for driving day-to-day development execution and ensuring product information, materials, trims, samples, costing, and approvals are accurate, organized, and delivered on time. The Product Developer will work closely with Design, Technical Design, Production, Merchandising, and global vendor partners to move product efficiently through the development lifecycle. As Rhoback continues to grow across categories and programs, this role will also support an expanding scope of Product Development responsibilities, including production support, submitting, packaging and hangtags, costing, testing, and special programs." That's About the role. Responsibilities (What You’ll Do): list of bullet points (each sentence starting with a verb). We need to convert each to
- .
Requirements (What We’re Looking For): list:
- Strong understanding of the apparel product development process from concept through production handoff.
- Working knowledge of fabrics, trims, garment construction, color and print development, packaging, testing, and product approvals.
- Ability to independently manage multiple styles, vendors, categories, and seasonal timelines in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail, follow-through, and process discipline.
- Clear and effective written and verbal communication skills, particularly with global vendors and cross-functional partners.
- Ability to identify development risks, evaluate options, and work collaboratively toward practical solutions.
- Comfortable taking ownership of day-to-day execution while knowing when to escalate issues or seek additional direction.
- Working knowledge of apparel costing, MOQ/MCQ requirements, surcharges, lead times, and sourcing considerations.
- Ability to interpret and maintain tech packs, BOMs, specifications, and other product development documentation.
- Proactive, adaptable, and solutions-oriented mindset with a collaborative, team-first approach.
Success Criteria (What Success Looks Like): list:
- Assigned categories and vendors are managed with clear ownership, timely follow-up, and minimal oversight.
- Development milestones and deliverables are consistently completed on time and risks are surfaced early.
- Tech packs, BOMs, costing, materials, trims, submits, testing, and product information remain accurate and organized throughout development.
- Vendor communication is timely, clear, and actionable, with outstanding items actively driven to resolution.
- Products transition smoothly from development into production with minimal rework or unresolved development issues.
- Strong cross-functional partnerships are maintained across Design, Technical Design, Production, Merchandising, and vendor teams.
- The Product Development function gains capacity and scalability as seasonal volume, programs, and responsibilities continue to grow.
Education And Experience: list:
- 3-5+ years of product development experience, preferably within apparel or soft goods.
- Experience working directly with domestic and/or global vendors and factories.
- Demonstrated experience managing multiple styles and seasonal development timelines in a fast-paced environment.
- Proficiency with PLM systems, BOM management, and product development tracking tools; Centric PLM experience preferred.
- Strong understanding of apparel sourcing, costing, materials, trims, garment construction, and production considerations.
- Bachelor's degree in Fashion Merchandising, Apparel Development, Product Development, or a related field preferred, or equivalent professional experience.
Physical Requirement: note: "This role may invole performing job-related tasks that occasionally require physical activity, such as lifting, pushing, or pulling items 10 lbs or more, with our without reasonable accommodation." There's a typo "invole" and "our". We'll preserve as is? Probably keep the text but maybe fix typo? The instruction: preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Should we keep the typo? It's part of the posting; we should preserve it exactly. However we could correct obvious typo? The instruction says do not invent or summarize away detail; correcting a typo could be considered inventing? It's ambiguous. Safer to keep as is, but we could note the typo as is. We'll keep the sentence exactly as given.
Compensation: "Base salary range: $70,000 - $90,000 per year. Please note that actual salaries will vary based on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. Additional rewards may include performance bonuses, long-term incentives, an FTO policy, and many other progressive benefits. You may be assigned additional duties, activities, or responsibilities to support your professional growth and development within the organization and to meet evolving business needs. This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, or activities associated with this position. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may be modified, expanded, reassigned, or new ones assigned at any time, with or without notice."
We need to include compensation and benefits. The benefits: performance bonuses, long-term incentives, FTO policy, many other progressive benefits. Also note about additional duties etc. That's more generic; we could include as prose.
We'll create a section "Compensation and Benefits". Inside we can have
- for list of benefits. List of benefits: performance bonuses, long-term incentives, an FTO policy, many other progressive benefits. We'll put those as
- .
We'll also include the base salary range as prose.
We'll also include note about actual salaries varying etc as prose.
We'll also include note about additional duties etc as prose.
We must not include EEO boilerplate etc. So we skip that.
Now produce HTML fragment.
Structure:
About the role
... intro paragraph ...
Responsibilities
- ... ...
Requirements
- ...
Success Criteria
- ...
Qualifications
- ...
Physical requirement note.
maybe after list.Compensation and Benefits
Base salary range: $70,000 - $90,000 per year. Please note that actual salaries will vary based on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance.
- Performance bonuses
- Long-term incentives
- FTO policy
- Many other progressive benefits
You may be assigned additional duties, activities, or responsibilities to support your professional growth and development within the organization and to meet evolving business needs. This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, or activities associated with this position. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may be modified, expanded, reassigned, or new ones assigned at any time, with or
for prose and