Product Manager, Core Apparel (Graphic T-Shirts & Embroidered Apparel)

*This is a fully remote role within the United States*

About Love in Faith

Love in Faith is a vibrant, expanding e-commerce company with a heart for Christian apparel. Our commitment is to deliver high-quality products coupled with an unparalleled shopping experience. Here, we're not just a company; we're a team of enthusiasts, dreamers, and doers that strive to deliver exceptional products with a customer-focused experience you can trust. With fully remote positions, you can work from anywhere while contributing to our exciting growth story.

Here's why you should consider us:

• Rapid Growth: We're not your typical startup. Our exponential growth speaks volumes about the opportunities that await you. Be part of something big!
• Remote Flexibility: Enjoy the freedom to work from your preferred location, without sacrificing your career goals.
• Culture: Our team knows how to work hard and play harder. We value creativity, innovation, and a positive work environment. Join us in celebrating successes, big and small.

About the Role

We are seeking a skilled Apparel Product Developer with a strong focus on graphic t-shirts and embroidered items. This role involves overseeing the development process from concept to final product, ensuring that all designs meet our high-quality standards. The ideal candidate will be responsible for managing our blank t-shirt inventory, coordinating with vendors, ensuring accurate file preparation, maintaining quality control, and assisting with purchase orders.

Responsibilities

• Product Development: Lead the development of graphic t-shirts, embroidered
  sweatshirts, and other core apparel items, ensuring products align with Love in Faith's brand and quality standards.
• Inventory Management: Oversee the inventory of blank t-shirts, working closely with the Inventory Management team to ensure optimal stock levels for production needs.
• Vendor Communication: Act as the primary liaison with vendors for core product lines.
  Ensure all communication is clear, and production requirements are met in a timely manner.
• File Preparation: Oversee the preparation of all design files, ensuring they are correctly formatted and ready for vendor receipt.
• Quality Control: Conduct thorough quality checks on strike-offs and final products, providing detailed feedback to vendors to maintain the highest quality standards. Monitor and provide feedback on each quarterly shipment blank goods shipments to ensure fit and quality standards.
• Purchase Orders: Assist in creating and managing purchase orders for core products, ensuring accurate and timely production.
• Market Research: Stay abreast of industry trends and consumer preferences, applying insights to product development to keep Love in Faith at the forefront of Christian apparel.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Fashion Design, Textile Management, or a related field.
• Proven experience in apparel product development, specifically with graphic t-shirts.   
• Strong understanding of garment construction, textile properties, and production processes.
• Exceptional organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects
  simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills, with experience working with domestic and international vendors.
• Proficient in design software (e.g., Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop) for file preparation and review.
• Detail-oriented with a strong focus on quality control.
• Creative thinker with a keen eye for design and trends in the Christian apparel market.

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee routinely is required to sit; walk; talk and hear; use hands to keyboard, finger, handle, and feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, twist, reach, and stretch. Speaking and hearing ability sufficient to communicate in person, over the telephone, and/or via video conference.
• The ability to stand, walk, and sit in a computer chair for long periods of time.
• The ability to see and respond to dangerous situations.
• Speaking and hearing ability sufficient to communicate in person, over the telephone and/or via video conferences.
• Sufficient hand, arm, and finger dexterity to operate a computer keyboard and other office equipment.

Emotional Demands

• Confident decision-making skills. You will need to review data and make sound decisions on what actions to take and make confident recommendations to senior management. You may need to make decisions quickly with limited amounts of information in urgent situations.
• Data analysis & interpretation. You will have to process and review a lot of information from a variety of sources, understand how data is collected, assess data quality, and how to use the information.
• Communication skills. You need to have advanced communication skills in both oral and written form. Emails and written communication with colleagues and external partners, written reports for senior executives. Able to communicate complex financial information to people outside of the finance department.
• Comfortable with technology. Able to navigate data through computers, mobile, software, databases. Stay up to date with technology advances.
• Oriented to detail. Financial forecasts rely on projections which can be impacted by even minor changes in sales patterns, consumer sentiment, economic shifts, competitor changes, etc. You will need to be attuned to small changes in all streams of data.

For Applicants with Disabilities

• Reasonable accommodation will be made for those that qualified during application process. If you need accommodations during the hiring process, please let us know when you submit your application, and we’ll do our very best to adjust as needed.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision

• Health Savings (HSA) & Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Company Paid Life Insurance
• 401(k) and Roth IRA Plans
• Employee Recognition & Rewards Program
• Unlimited PTO (for exempt employees)
• Frontloaded PTO (for non-exempt employees)
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Sick Time
• Other supplemental benefits available

Other Company Perks:

• Monthly Utility Stipend
• Coffee and Food Stipend
• Health & Wellness Stipend
• Education & Professional Development Stipend
• Charitable Gift Matching