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Job Title:Director, Product Engineering - UGG Footwear
Reports to:VP, Product Development- UGG & Quality Ops - Global

Location: Goleta, CA - Hybrid

Typically 3 times per week in office, Tuesday - Thursday

The Role

As Director of Product Engineering for UGG Footwear, you will anchor the technical integrity of our footwear portfolio and lead a team dedicated to global fit, wear testing, and comfort optimization. You'll guide the product creation process through optimal engineering, manage fit expectations, and deliver excellence across all genders. Your leadership will evolve the UGG product engineering landscape, optimizing resources and setting global standards for fit, wear, and comfort.

We celebrate diversity--of your background, your experiences and your unique identity. We are committed to ensuring an inclusive and equitable workplace where all of our employees can Come as They Are. We believe that when we bring our different perspectives to work, we are truly Better Together.

Your Impact

• Create and execute Product Engineering team strategies, building a high-performance culture aligned with global product development, engineering, supply chain, and brand strategies.
• Lead the unification of global engineering teams, integrating US and Asia-based teams with a unified focus.
• Develop scalable and sustainable engineering infrastructure to balance team capacity and demand, formalizing processes as guardrails around an entrepreneurial creation process.
• Identify, mentor, and retain high-potential talent through well-defined career paths.
• Own and drive UGG comfort standards, creating and evolving comfort toolboxes for product creation.
• Optimize and standardize product excellence across the UGG footwear portfolio.
• Implement critical product analysis capabilities for design, shoe last specifications, materials selection, blueprint review, pattern revisions, and product technologies.
• Lead global fit and wear initiatives, calibrating standards and processes into a unified global point of view.
• Maintain and evolve global fit strategy, ensuring product excellence.
• Create and manage robust wear testing programs, maintaining global awareness of standards and foot proportions.
• Drive milestone deadline awareness and discipline within an agile creation calendar, engaging stakeholders for timely handoffs.
• Measure progress through defined KPIs and identify improvement opportunities across the global organization.
• Continually identify and implement global improvement opportunities, keeping pace with industry trends and evolving consumer demand.

Who You Are

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• 15+ years' experience in the footwear industry and/or in a context where research, data collection, and results analysis were significant.
• 10+ years in a leadership role within the footwear industry for a global company.
• Proficient in footwear product creation, product testing, and biomechanics.
• Proficient in shoe last making and/or shoe manufacturing.
• Advanced knowledge in footwear product constructions.
• Advanced knowledge in using data analytics to provide quantifiable results.

What We'll Give You -

• Competitive Pay and Bonuses - We've created a variety of competitive compensation programs to foster career development, reward success and to show our employees just how much they're valued.
• Financial Planning and wellbeing - No matter what financial goals our employees have set, we want to help them get there. Our plans provide powerful ways to protect income, pay for expenses and invest in the future.
• Time away from work - Sometimes we need time away to be with family, focus on our health or just simply recharge. Our plans support our employees' needs to get out, get healthy and come back stronger than ever.
• Extras, discounts and perks - Being a valued member of the Deckers Brands team means more than just a paycheck. From generous discounts to community-based programs, we offer a variety of cool extras
• Growth and Development - Deckers Brands was built on the idea of pursuing passion. That's why we offer extensive opportunities and support for personal and professional development.
• Health and Wellness - There's nothing basic about our comprehensive health and wellness programs and offerings. While at work and at play, we aim to support a healthy lifestyle.

The salary range posted reflects the estimated minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for this role in:

Individual pay will be determined by location and additional factors, including job related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Equal Employment Opportunity
Diversity and inclusion are key to our success. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences and backgrounds who share a passion for our brands. We welcome qualified applicants regardless of their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, military or veteran status, mental or physical disability, medical condition and all the other beautiful parts of your identity.