Senior Product Development Project Manager, New Products

What You'll Do Own multiple soft and hard goods programs end‑to‑end, delivering to scope, schedule, quality, and cost. Translate product requirements into clear specs with design and engineering; protect design intent while ensuring manufacturability. Drive with cross functional team for DFx across plastics, textiles, and mixed‑material assemblies, including part design, tolerances, surface finishes, seams, trims, and assembly. Lead prototyping through production readiness: lab dips/strike‑offs, T0/T1, golden samples, tooling, sampling, and approvals. Source, evaluate, and onboard vendors and manufacturing partners; manage performance on cosmetic quality, yield, throughput, and cost. Work with packaging team to coordinate packaging from dielines and artwork to structural validation, transit tests, and retail compliance. Plan and execute validation and reliability: fit/function, abuse and sharp‑edge, seam and pull tests, colorfastness, and process capability. Work with compliance team to manage safety and regulatory approvals for toys and consumer goods and define pre‑compliance strategies. Establish QA/QC with AQL sampling, in‑process controls, and final inspections; drive CAPA with vendors. Maintain program dashboards and cadences with clear updates, dependencies, risks, and trade‑offs for stakeholders. Must Have 10+ years in program or product development delivering soft and hard goods at scale. Strong grasp of ME, CMF, and DFx with manufacturing processes such as injection/blow molding, extrusion, die‑cutting, sewing, heat sealing, printing, and assembly. Background spanning textiles and plastics, color management, printing methods, packaging materials, and surface treatments. Demonstrated experience with packaging engineering and transit testing, and with QA/QC in factory environments. Fluency with project tools and artifacts, including schedules, timeline views, risk registers, dashboards, BOMs, and change orders. Excellent communication and stakeholder management; able to drive alignment across design, operations, sourcing, and vendors. Fluency in English and Mandarin. Nice to Have PMP or comparable program management certification. Hands‑on experience with toy and consumer‑goods safety and regulatory labs. Rapid prototyping fluency across soft and hard goods, with tight iteration cycles. Strong supplier development chops: vendor scorecards, QBRs, corrective action leadership, and dual‑sourcing strategy Contract and commercial negotiation experience with suppliers on cost, MOQs, tooling amortization, and SLAs Experience with sustainability initiatives such as recycled content, packaging minimization, and eco‑labeling claims. Travel, and Time zones Travel: International travel to factories and labs as needed Timezone: Will collaborate across timezones with our global teams We Offer Competitive compensation package. Flexible working hours and vacation policy. Product-driven culture that treasures talents and individual growth. Front-row seat and hands-on experience with cutting edge technologies in the evolving gaming field Nex is located in San Jose, California, USA and Hong Kong . Learn more about us at https://www.nexplayground.com/about . We encourage applications even if you don’t meet more than 50% of the requirements — we believe that experience comes in many forms! Nex is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. This policy applies to all individuals at every stage of the employment relationship, including all current and prospective employees, and covers all employment decisions including recruitment, hiring, job assignment, promotion, compensation, benefits, training, discipline and termination. We are committed to providing a workplace free from discrimination and harassment and to fostering an inclusive environment for all employees.