Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Peachybbies is a leading premium slime and creative-play brand with a strong social media presence. They are seeking a Head of Product Development to oversee the transition of product ideas into manufacturable products, ensuring quality and cost efficiency while managing a growing team.
Responsibilities
- Develop products from concept handoff to production
- Translate approved concepts into clear product requirements, specifications, materials, dimensions, finishes, tolerances, assembly instructions, and pack-out details
- Build and maintain BOMs with component-level cost visibility, approved alternates, and substitution rules
- Identify technical risks early and recommend practical changes before the company spends months sampling the wrong product
- Create a clear production-readiness package for each SKU before it is released for purchase or mass production
- Own the sample-review process from first prototype through golden sample approval
- Diagnose what is wrong with a sample, identify the likely cause, and give precise direction that a factory or specialist can act on
- Keep creative intent intact while making the product manufacturable, safe, durable, and commercially realistic
- Work directly with the Sourcing Manager and vendors to resolve technical issues without slowing decisions through unnecessary layers
- Turn MSRP and margin goals into target landed-cost envelopes by product and channel
- Review quotes against the BOM and specifications so the team is comparing like-for-like costs
- Identify the real cost drivers and value-engineer products without stripping out the parts that make the customer experience worth buying
- Lay out tradeoffs clearly when cost, quality, timing, and customer experience are in tension
- Own the compliance plan for each product and manage external laboratories, consultants, and documentation as needed
- Set age grading, warnings, traceability, testing, and documentation requirements for children's products and other regulated categories
- Define quality standards, golden samples, defect criteria, inspection requirements, and corrective-action expectations with Operations and external QC partners
- Own packaging requirements and manage the structural and engineering work needed for protection, retail presentation, shipping, labeling, and pack-out
- Maintain a clear development timeline and single source of truth for status, decisions, risks, owners, and next steps
- Drive the product through practical stage gates without creating a slow or overly corporate process
- Escalate cost, timing, quality, or capacity risks early enough for the company to make a real decision
- Support first production runs and close out open issues before handing the product into normal Operations and QC ownership
- Create lightweight templates, review standards, and operating rhythms that make development faster and more consistent
- Hire and manage product developers as category volume grows, starting with the highest-need areas
- Set a high bar for hands-on ownership and coach the team through difficult product, cost, and factory problems
- Remain a working product-development leader rather than becoming removed from the products as the team expands
Skills
- Typically 5 to 10+ years of hands-on physical consumer-product development experience. We care more about what you personally shipped and fixed than the size of your previous title
- Strong experience in one or more of the following: arts and crafts, activity kits, toys, kids' products, compounds or sensory products, art supplies, or adjacent creative-play categories
- Relevant adjacent experience in accessories, stationery, beauty, soft goods, drinkware, lunchware, gift, novelty, or licensed consumer products is also valuable
- A track record of personally taking products from concept handoff through costing, sampling, testing, factory correction, and production release
- Strong BOM, specification, target-costing, and sample-diagnosis skills
- Experience working directly with overseas factories and sourcing teams, including the realities of MOQs, lead times, tooling, and repeated sample rounds
- Working knowledge of children's product compliance and third-party testing. You do not need to be a regulatory attorney or lab specialist
- Experience managing a small PD team or building a product-development process while remaining hands-on
- Comfort working in a founder-led, fast-moving company where decisions are made quickly and ownership is visible
- Practical fluency with current AI tools for research, specifications, documentation, analysis, and workflow improvement
- Craft kits, creative-play systems, subscription kits, toys, collectibles, or sensory products
- Compounds such as slime, dough, clay, sand, putty, cosmetics, or other material-driven products
- Products sold through Target, Walmart, specialty retail, and DTC
- High-velocity launches, seasonal lines, retailer exclusives, collaborations, or licensed products
- A scrappy company where you personally did the work rather than handing every problem to a large specialist team
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