ECOM Electronic Components Trading GmbH

Head of Product Development – Premium Affordable Luxury Gentlemen Accessories

ECOM Electronic Components Trading GmbH

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United Kingdom

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Lead

About the role

  • You will define the pipeline, build the processes, manage the supplier relationships, enforce the commercial discipline, and drive the launches while also being the design authority who ensures every product feels unmistakably Scriveiner.
  • This role owns the product development engine end-to-end.
  • The most important thing about this role is whether the whole machine works
  • You build the machine, and you run it.
  • A live 12–24 month product roadmap with clear stage gates, risk flags, owners, costs, and target launch windows
  • A stage-gate process that enforces discipline without bureaucracy implemented in Notion and embedded in team cadences
  • Definition and enforcement of ‘handoff-ready’ standards so channel teams can execute launches without ambiguity
  • Full design authority for new product categories: CMF, proportions, weight, tactile quality, packaging and gifting experience
  • Factory-executable specifications: dimensions, tolerances, materials, finishes, acceptance criteria
  • Sample assessment and iteration management decisive, written, measurable feedback that drives progress
  • Costing feasibility from the earliest stage: target factory cost, margin awareness, MOQs, lead times, risk flags
  • QC plans, inspection criteria, and defect standards for each product category
  • Complete handoff packs that give channel teams everything needed to execute a launch without returning to product
  • Templates and standards: product briefs, spec sheets, sample feedback formats, QC plans, handoff packs
  • Governance cadences: weekly pipeline review, monthly quality and CX feedback loop, quarterly roadmap refresh
  • A closed feedback loop from CX and returns data back into product improvements
  • A reliable product development engine delivering 6–10 high-quality launches per year with design excellence and commercial discipline
  • A pipeline that runs predictably no ambiguity about what is in progress, what is blocked, and what is next
  • Every product at launch is on-brand, manufacturable at target cost, QC-defined, and handed over with a complete launch pack
  • A design language established for Scriveiner beyond pens that is coherent, premium, and scalable
  • A product development system the business can rely on as it scales not dependent on founders to function

Requirements

  • Proven, hands-on experience taking physical consumer products from concept through sampling to production readiness
  • Strong design instinct for premium and luxury cues within an affordable luxury value equation
  • Demonstrated ability to build product development systems from scratch: stage gates, pipeline tracking, templates, handoff standards
  • Direct factory communication capability: clear written specifications, measurable sample feedback, QC thinking
  • Commercial realism: cost targets, margin discipline, lead times, and trade-off decision-making
  • Exceptional organisation and follow-through you build the machine and you keep it running
  • Comfortable as a senior individual contributor: no direct reports, high personal accountability
  • AI-native working style we are a lean, AI-enabled business and expect this role to use AI as a genuine force multiplier
  • Business-level fluency in spoken and written English is essential. You will discuss complex design concepts, material specifications, commercial trade-offs, and quality control decisions in real time often across time zones, with factory teams and founders simultaneously. You need to be precise, fast, and confident in English under pressure.
Benefits
  • Senior leadership-level compensation salary range shared at shortlist stage with a performance bonus tied directly to launch cadence, product quality, and pipeline health. Open to employment or contractor arrangements.
  • Significant annual performance bonus tied directly to launch cadence, product quality, and pipeline health, this is a meaningful part of the total package
  • Paid annual leave and paid sick leave
  • The tools and support you need to do the job properly
  • Welcome gift: a curated selection of Scriveiner products
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
product developmentstage-gate processpipeline trackingfactory specificationsquality controlcosting feasibilitysample assessmentdesign authoritycommercial disciplinerisk management
Soft Skills
exceptional organizationfollow-throughhigh personal accountabilityclear communicationdesign instinctdecision-makingcollaborationadaptabilityproblem-solvingleadership