Paris, France
Product developer – furniture
at Petite Friture
Petite Friture is looking for a product developer for furniture to join its team in Paris.
About Petite Friture
Petite Friture, founded in 2009, is an unconventional design editor. It’s an independent and international company, with approximately 25 employees. Petite Friture keeps a free spirit, creating particular and sensitive collections together with designers who like creative challenges. First partnerships with Rossana Orlandi in Milan, MOMA in New York and Harrod’s in London, to give only a few names, led the way for Petite Friture to rise worldwide. In 15 years, Petite Friture has become unavoidable in the very select design distribution world (60-plus countries and 300-plus partners) and has won many design awards.
Petite Friture has now also been a purpose-driven company for two years, gathering a great community – designers, internal and external employees, interior designers and manufacturers – sharing values of engagement, expectancy, kindness and generosity.
At Petite Friture, we are convinced that our innovative strength lies in the diversity of its talents. Diversity, for Petite Friture, means fostering a work environment where individual differences are recognized, appreciated, respected and valued, in order to develop the full potential of each member of the team and to take advantage of the talents of each person.
And with a clear ambition: bringing forward with our collections, good out of beautiful.
About this job
Organization
Reports to the head of operations, teams up with the other product developers, the quality and CSR manager and the supply chain manager.
Mission
Manages, working closely with the artistic director, new products development, compliant with Petite Friture’s requirements as far as the following are concerned:
- quality
- timing
- supply chain organization (MOQ etc.)
- pricing
- CSR
Managing development projects
The product developer is responsible for the projects’ correct outcome, using formal output documents and attending different meetings with internal and/or external (designers, manufacturers) stakeholders:
- inputs to Petite Friture’s project specifications at the beginning of projects
- creates and corrects (for external documents) technical documents such as 2D drawings or 3D files
- sources adapted manufacturers
- manages project timing through ASANA, complying with Petite Friture’s development process; is responsible for bringing products to the market on time
- fills in and keeps up to date the projects P&L, all through the project; is responsible for the product’s cost and negotiates with suppliers
- orders and approves prototypes; gives feedback and active improvement suggestions to suppliers
- builds up, together with the quality manager, the control/testing plan for each project
- gives project updates in committee meetings which include sales, marketing and general management
- writes Petite Friture standard documents and implements Petite Friture information database; for example product sheet (component sheet, BOM), product database and marketing documents (product news) and product instruction sheets
- codifies products
Leading global projects, such as:
- double-sourcing or re-sourcing plans of existing collections, for supply organization or global Petite Friture strategy reasons
- market benchmarks: editors, manufacturers (technologies, production processes, products etc.)
- product improvement task forces for quality, CSR, cost or other reasons
- inputs to Petite Friture’s CSR strategy – on materials, ageing and reparation of products etc.
- training internal employees with technical aspects of products – specifically Petite Friture sales team
Who we are looking for:
- five to ten years’ minimum experience in a similar position; experience in furniture development mandatory
- proficiency using 2D and 3D software, understanding manufacturing processes, technical materials used, and relevant norms/standards
- team spirit is a key skill for this position; our product developer is a key partner to the artistic direction, marketing teams, sales teams and quality and supply managers
- ability to manage many projects at the same time in a changing context
- service orientation towards other stakeholders – designers, salespeople etc.
- thoroughness, problem-solving attitude and optimism
- based in Paris, two days/week remote
- permanent full-time contract
- fluent English necessary
- frequent business trips
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