Lead Knits, Wovens and Hardgoods

About the role

Responsibilities

• Supporting the Senior Manager, Proof of Concept Validation in building and coaching a team of technical Experts, Engineers and Developers, and owning the day-to-day leadership and development of the team.
• Owning and developing accurate documentation of the testing and validation methods and results whilst ensuring parameters are accurately documented.
• Partner with Compliance to identify changes in regulations/standards, and how these changes impact constructions.
• Partner with Compliance and engineering to identify Hardgoods pull test needs and initial testing.
• Facilitating regular communication between cross-functional groups to establish and maintain practices to ensure smooth transition to downstream teams.
• Partnering with Product Integrity to ensure that all constructions / technical sets meet our standards.
• Partnering with Product Operations on calendar requirements, ensuring timelines are met throughout the Proof-of-Concept process by managing workloads amongst team members
• Providing regular reporting of metrics to Proof-of-Concept leadership team
• Accurately producing technical drawings of approved constructions and maintaining Knits, Wovens and Hardgoods construction and testing libraries.
• Managing a limited repertoire of testing and validating materials and construction as the technical expert, ensuring Arc'teryx brand standards are consistently met.
• Communicating seasonal technical sets validation in the transition to Execution.
• Being the point of contact for troubleshooting any sample / technical sets challenges during samples in the Execution and Commercialization phases