Sr. Product Engineer

We believe that difference sparks brilliance, so we welcome people and ideas from everywhere to join us in stretching what’s possible.

At Tapestry, being true to yourself is core to who we are. When each of us brings our individuality to our collective ambition, our creativity is unleashed. This global house of brands - Coach, Kate Spade New York, Stuart Weitzman - was built by unconventional entrepreneurs and unexpected solutions, so when we say we believe in dreams, we mean we believe in making them happen. We’re always on a journey to becoming our best, but you can count on this: Here, your voice is valued, your ambitions are supported, and your work is recognized.

A member of the Tapestry family, we are part of a global house of brands that has unwavering optimism and is committed to being innovative and wholly inclusive. Visit **Our People **page to learn more about Tapestry's commitment to equity, inclusion, and diversity.

**Primary Purpose**

Technically accountable throughout the stages of product development and commercialization to ensure that our product is properly constructed to interpret Coach’s Design intent and consequently manufactured to Coach’s high quality standards.

**The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in Product Development to...**
- Participate in milestone DC review. Address construction concerns, follow up on mockup making in sample room. Ensure mockups match design and construction intent.
- Provide engineering support for mockup reviews. Offer comments and collaborate with sample room on specific constructions for hand feel. Determine filler usage
- Clarify construction issues for NY team when needed. Contribute and propose when needed.
- Track milestone sample proceedings. Ensure sample construction aligns with review comments. Adjust and record for next rounds.
- Build and follow up on initial Best Practices for specific constructions until commercialization. Share with stakeholders.
- Collaborate with PD to review PA samples when there are construction difficulties or need for engineering knowledge.
- Analyze store claims and find root cause and provide guidance for SPs.
- Review new materials. Provide opinions/concerns based on experience. Review material performance during sample making and recap concerns to PD team.
- Collaborate with HW team on new developments. Provide usage info, review blueprints, offer relevant thickness details, ensure proper fit. Test HW functionality and assembly.
- Review test results with PD managers. Manage product testing results on development samples. Provide solutions for failures and share with relevant teams.
- Check and adjust patterns for development milestones. Archive final patterns and ensure match PA samples and meet our COH pattern format standards.
- Have a cost-conscious mindset and provide cost-effective construction proposals.

**The accomplished individual will possess...**
- Must have extended knowledge on paper pattern ( CAD is not required)
- Must know handbag manufacturing with extensive sampling experience & mentor juniors.
- Exceptional creativity to solve complex problems and lead problem-solving efforts.
- Might require travelling to different cities/countries
- Good English language skill
- Ability to work in a collaborative team environment with multi-cultural members.
- Good aesthetic sense of leather goods.
- Teamwork
- Communications
- Initiative/Pro-activeness

**Our Competencies for All Employees**
- **Courage**: Doesn’t hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
- **Creativity**: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
- **Customer Focus**: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
- **Dealing with Ambiguity**: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn’t upset when things are up in the air; doesn’t have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
- **Drive for Results**: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.****:

- **Interpersonal Savvy**: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the orga