Since 2006, we’ve gone our own way. We love the products we co-create with our customers. It’s a dedication to exceptional quality in our products, as well as driving a great customer experience, that has led to the fact that you can find our two brands, Dope and Montec, on most slopes around the world. From one winter season to the next, we keep improving everything we do, and our products evolve with us and our customers.

What’s this role about, then?

To start with, you’ll dive into Ridestore, get to know your new teammates, understand what makes us unique, who’s who, what tools we use, explore our brands and products to grasp their current identities, where to get coffee, what kind of fabric the nerdy R&D guy is talking about… and… you get it; learn a lot about your new work.

Then, depending on your background and how fast you learn, we see you engaging in a variety of things in this role, some probably from day one, others way later:

Iterative product development: You will continuously build and improve products over time, ensuring the creation of the best possible results while finding purpose and fulfillment.

Test new designs: You’ll experiment with new ideas, identify design risks, and collaborate with the design team to make construction decisions that ensure quality and aesthetic alignment.

Own product improvements: You’ll drive product enhancements and clearly communicate sample feedback to suppliers. You will suggest and test technical improvements, digging deep to understand why some constructions work and why others fail.

Enhance technical quality: You'll contribute to building our quality by evaluating samples in detail and providing our factories with actionable feedback.

Optimize the product development team: Support in building and refining ways of working that keep the team efficient and agile. You’ll be expected to bring a passion for improving how we do things in product development.

Build technical assets: Using Adobe Illustrator, you’ll create and maintain a high-quality tech drawing library for all products.

Stay on top of projects: You’ll track project stages, prioritize urgent deliveries, and flag any potential delays.

Solve problems: You’ll approach challenges with an open mind and creativity, driving solutions when issues arise.

Share knowledge: We’re doing this together. You’ll spread your technical expertise across the team and company to help people grow and better understand our products.

Sounds interesting, right? What you read is meant to help you understand what we envision you driving and achieving so you know where to aim. As we grow and change, you and the team may realize your role may need to adapt and grow. We welcome change, so this list should help you understand our expectations but not box you in!

Who are you?

• A sociable person, comfortable in both giving and receiving feedback
• A passionate product developer
• Self-driven and detail-oriented
• Autonomous, capable of handling projects independently
• A structured mind to keep projects on track
• Problem-solving skills to tackle the coming bumps in the road
• Humble to the bones and know how to laugh
• You love working in a team

Your Experience

• Experience in product development for functional outerwear
• Deep knowledge of Illustrator
• A clear understanding of lead times and product development processes

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It's a full-time role based in our only office in Gothenburg. So we want you to live close to Gothenburg or relocate there to be able to work from the office about three to four days each week. Ridestore is distributed across several countries and has a great digital workplace, meaning we will also offer you the flexibility to work from home.

So, apply if you want to be part of a fun-loving and humble crew where we go our own way. Our journey is our goal; we want to continue to learn and see where it can take us. We’ll offer you freedom in a passionate and somewhat snowy environment where you can impact the future of Ridestore with your work.

How we do it

Please do not put any effort into writing a cover letter before applying! Instead, you will get to write answers to some questions that we find interesting for this role! Good luck, and have fun!