Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:
As our Senior Product Testing Analyst you will be responsible for building and managing our footwear product testing efforts in China, which will deliver feedback and insights throughout the footwear development lifecycle. You will lead the organization, execution, and reporting of testing efforts in China from product briefs through final prototypes, ensuring products meet performance, fit, and durability standards. You will work closely with our global product testing team (based in Vancouver, BC) and footwear product creation partners (in Portland, OR) to ensure our products meet the high performance and quality standards of the Chinese market and will influence our design direction accordingly.
Meet Your Future Team:
If you were in the Senior Product Testing Analyst role now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:
Managing the end‑to‑end testing process for assigned footwear styles, from brief through final prototype
Developing testing plans that align with footwear category needs, performance objectives, and calendar dates.
Building out a diverse pool of testers
Managing testing calendars and timelines, ensuring alignment across testing process and overall Footwear milestone dates.
Building and maintaining strong relationships with athletes and core product testers
Capturing performance and fit feedback to impact product solutions and decisions.
Compiling and delivering test results at key moments in the product creation process.
Identifying risks, and opportunities based on qualitative and quantitative tester feedback
Communicating testing progress and outcomes regularly with the Testing Manager
Travelling to regions within China to meet testers and conduct field testing.
Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future:
Develop an expanded recruitment strategy to increase the representation of the tester pool across key categories of Run, Climb and Hike
Exploring new innovative testing methodologies to deepen performance insights
Working towards optimizing and enhancing workflows and data capture systems to increase data quality and efficiencies
- Working directly with sponsored athletes and will suggest product modifications to meet their unique needs.
Are you our next Senior Product Testing Analyst?
You have strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple tests simultaneously
You have eight years of experience coordinating product testing, research, or consumer insights (footwear or apparel preferred)
You have extensive personal experience with trail running, hiking and/or climbing
You have high attention to detail and comfort working with databases, forms, and tracking systems
You thrive in an environment that requires strong time management skills, collaboration, a self-starter mindset, and extremely strong communication skills.
You have strong written and verbal communication skills in both English and Mandarin
You can synthesize large amounts of feedback into clear, concise insights
You are comfortable working cross‑functionally in a fast‑paced product environment
You have a passion for footwear and product performance
You are able to travel within China up to 20% of your time
Required Qualifications
Skills Required
- Eight years of experience coordinating product testing, research, or consumer insights
- Experience with footwear or apparel product testing
- Strong organizational and project management skills
- Ability to manage multiple tests simultaneously
- Extensive personal experience with trail running, hiking, and/or climbing
- High attention to detail and comfort working with databases, forms, and tracking systems
- Strong time management, collaboration, self-starter mindset, and communication skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English and Mandarin
- Ability to synthesize large amounts of feedback into clear, concise insights
- Comfort working cross-functionally in a fast-paced product environment
- Passion for footwear and product performance
- Eligibility to work in China
- Ability to travel within China up to 20% of the time
What We Do
Arc’teryx is a global design company based in North Vancouver, B.C. that specializes in technical high-performance outerwear and equipment. We design and manufacture a wide range of mountain sports outdoor apparel and equipment for all conditions and experiences, including mountaineering, ice and rock climbing, skiing, snowboarding, and trail running. Our company is built on a passionate and relentless commitment to design, craftsmanship and performance. We have a unique construction process that enables us to create technical products that can be trusted to perform at the point of extreme need. We are uniquely positioned in our industry as we have our own factory located in New Westminster, BC, which enables us to build products with a meticulous focus on detail and performance. We leverage this manufacturing knowledge and share it with our global partner factories. In the Coast Mountain Range behind our headquarters and design centre in North Vancouver, we field test our products in real world conditions allowing us to create the best-fitting, longest-lasting, highest-performing technical products available. We distribute our outerwear and equipment through more than 3,000 retail locations worldwide, in over 40 countries globally, including 38 branded and outlet stores in Europe, North America and Asia. The company started with six employees in 1989 and now has more than 1000 employees in Canada.
