Product Development

• Build seasonal and ongoing product assortments across bedding, bath, pet, and future soft-home categories
• Develop product concepts and identify opportunities for newness, extensions, and key items
• Translate trends, consumer insights, customer needs, and brand direction into commercially viable products
• Build and maintain detailed assortment plans and SKU-level product lineups
• Identify assortment gaps and recommend new products, extensions, and collection opportunities
• Balance design, quality, price, margin, inventory requirements, and customer demand
• Determine SKU breadth and depth and establish initial inventory needs, SKU quantities, and order recommendations with Planning
• Manage products from initial concept and vendor development through samples, revisions, costing, and final approval
• Communicate product requirements to vendors and coordinate development timelines, samples, specifications, and revisions
• Review samples and provide feedback on design intent, quality, target costs, and functional requirements
• Review and negotiate product costing, MOQs, and pricing with vendors and agents
• Work with Sourcing to identify factories and vendor partners
• Ensure products are fully developed and ready for order placement, including accurate specifications, costing, packaging, and dimensions
• Partner with Planning and Operations on SKU setup and product readiness
• Monitor development pipelines and flag issues affecting orders, inventory availability, or launch timing
• Manage daily communication with overseas vendors and agents and follow up on development trackers
• Partner cross-functionally with Design, Sourcing, Planning, Sales, Operations, Packaging, and leadership
• Monitor home-market trends, competitive assortments, pricing, product offerings, and new launches
• Identify whitespace opportunities and recommend new products or categories
• Participate in customer and sales meetings and support showroom and line presentation preparation

Product Development, Assortment Planning – Home Textiles

• Serve as a product expert and partner with Marketing, Social, PR, and Creative teams to support product launches, campaigns, photoshoots, PR placements, events, and social content through assortment curation and brand storytelling
• Maintain and manage the product database and product development trackers, ensuring accurate style setup, updates, and cross-functional visibility
• Manage product sample logistics, including vendor communication, shipment tracking, internal distribution, sample sign-in/sign-out, and delivery for review, approval, styling, and production
• Organize physical and digital sample archives with accurate labeling, documentation, and traceability
• Assist with product reviews, presentations, collection overviews, and assortment strategies
• Identify and implement process improvements across sample management workflows
• Conduct trend and market research, including visual inspiration, competitive analysis, and industry insights, to inform fine jewelry and luxury merchandising opportunities
• Support operational initiatives, cross-functional communication, special projects, and ad hoc administrative responsibilities

Product Development, Merchandising Assistant

• Accurately enter all new product items into the ERP system and maintain clean, up-to-date records
• Manage and process ongoing system updates
• Maintain accessible, well-organized product lifecycle documentation
• Review system updates and provide backup support to audit system revisions and additions
• Inspect incoming graphic packaging materials, including labels, cans, and film, against quality and brand standards
• Identify packaging discrepancies and initiate corrective actions
• Communicate new items and packaging changes or issues to relevant departments
• Document inspection results and maintain accurate records
• Assist with auditing and updating Product Development documentation, including Finished Product Specifications and Quality and Audit-related records
• Participate in product tastings and sensory evaluations supporting new product development, reformulations, and comparative testing

Product Development jobs in New York

Product Development, Assortment Planning – Home Textiles

Product Development, Merchandising Assistant

Product Development Associate