Operations Product Development Engineer

| Los Angeles, CA | Hybrid
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About Ruggable:

Ruggable is a Los Angeles-based, venture-backed, rapidly growing e-commerce startup that is disrupting the $7B rug industry and revolutionizing the market for residential rugs. Our patented 2-Piece Rug System allows you to remove the top layer of your rug and wash it in your home washing machine, offering an affordable, stylish and convenient solution for young families, pet owners, and busy individuals. We're a small, entrepreneurial team with big ambitions. We have a strong brand, established traction, and amazing advisors fueling our steady growth. This is an opportunity to get in at the ground floor and solve for complex challenges, while charting your own career.

Job Summary:

As the Product Development Engineer, you will be the foremost expert in Operations on the technical aspects of our raw materials for every business unit. You’ll work closely with the Product, Sourcing, Quality, and Manufacturing teams to bring new products to market and diversify our supply chain for existing products. Your work will enable Ruggable to onboard suppliers more rapidly, quickly eliminate vendor-driven quality issues, and play a more proactive role in product development.

What You’ll Do: 

  • Create detailed product and manufacturing specifications for our product components to foster a stronger understanding of those inputs
  • Partner with Sourcing to help prospective new suppliers troubleshoot manufacturing challenges and ultimately shorten the onboarding process
  • Support the Quality team on root cause analysis for complex raw material quality defects
  • Develop thorough manufacturing SOPs for our raw materials to harmonize how our suppliers make our products and accelerate the development process
  • Find quantitative, standardized ways to objectively measure component performance
  • Collaborate with the Product department to make improvements to both new and existing products

What You’ll Need to Have:

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Textile Engineering, or a related field
  • 2+ years of experience in a manufacturing work environment
  • Strong project management and communication skills
  • Proficiency in Microsoft / Google Suite
  • High attention to detail and ability to manage competing priorities simultaneously
  • Willingness to travel domestically and internationally to meet with vendors

Preferred:

  • Mandarin or Vietnamese proficiency
  • Experience in Lean Six Sigma (LSS), 5S, KPI, SMED, VSM, DMS and/or Kaizen
  • Experience developing products in the home goods industry

At Ruggable, we offer competitive compensation and benefits packages. Ruggable is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We proudly recruit and hire a diverse workforce and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents linked here.

To all recruitment agencies: Ruggable does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Ruggable employees or any other company destination. Ruggable is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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Technology we use

  • Engineering
  • Product
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An Insider's view of Ruggable

What’s the vibe like in the office?

There's a very "driven" feeling in the office. Everyone is trying to put out excellent work and keep pushing the product and the company forward. At the same time, everyone is gracious and big ego's are not common. There is an attitude of perpetual growth and learning at every level.

Allison

Graphic Design Manager

What projects are you most excited about?

I'm most excited about projects that we're undertaking to enhance our Customer Experience. Some of the most immediate projects are expanding the different channels we communicate with customers on including phone and chat. We're also looking into standing up more self-service customer friendly tools so customers always know their order status.

Benny

Customer Experience Director

How has your career grown since starting at the company?

Ruggable’s culture lends itself to entrepreneurial go-getters looking for rapid career growth. Team members are given a ton of autonomy and trusted to deliver value. Once you prove yourself, your scope and responsibilities grow quickly. I joined as an individual contributor, and one year later I’m leading a large team as Director of Core Product.

Therese

Director of Core Product

How do you empower your team to be more creative?

I find the best way to foster creativity is, ironically, to provide a healthy set of constraints and guiding principles. This creates a tremendous amount of focus and problem solving around the limitations in creative ways. It's like providing the outline of a coloring book and giving your team access to and ownership over all the colored pencils!

Linda

Chief Marketing Officer

What are Ruggable Perks + Benefits

Ruggable Benefits Overview

We value our team members as much as we value our customers. Here are just some of the benefits we offer for being part of our team:

Strong Company Culture
Fun Team Events
Career Growth Opportunities
Casual Dress Code
Emphasis on Work/Life Balance
Employee Discount

Culture
Partners with nonprofits
Ruggable sponsors animals through Face4Pets, provides rug donations through A Sense of Home and Chicago Furniture Bank, and plans to plant 100,000 trees in 2020 through One Tree Planted.
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Flexible work schedule
Ruggable promotes a work-life balance by allowing employees a flexible work schedule that includes flexible start and end times.
Remote work program
Diversity
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity employee resource groups
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Wellness programs
First Friday Yoga, Peloton Online subscription
Team workouts
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
Performance bonus
Charitable contribution matching
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Paid holidays
Office Perks
Company-sponsored outings
Free snacks and drinks
Our kitchens are always fully stocked with the latest snacks, a robust coffee/espresso/tea bar, and ever-changing LaCroix flavors.
Some meals provided
Ruggable's tradition of monthly Food Truck Tuesdays are paired with a rotating list of local LA food trucks (including In-N-Out!).
Company-sponsored happy hours
We host monthly company-wide happy hours to socialize and wind down with our Ruggable family.
Onsite office parking
Free parking on-site at our offices.
Recreational clubs
Relocation assistance
Fitness stipend
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Continuing education available during work hours
Online course subscriptions available
Customized development tracks

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