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Red Wing Shoe Company is based in Red Wing, Minnesota, just 40 minutes from St. Paul, where our corporate office sits along the Mississippi River in downtown Red Wing.  We are a global company with 2300 employees around the world, but we maintain a close-knit family atmosphere that comes with being a privately-held company. We’re rich in history and tradition, but innovation drives us to deliver best-in-class product solutions and highly rated customer experiences.  Focus on our employees and company culture results in meaningful employee engagement across the organization. Our Guiding Behaviors of Living our Values, Honoring our Brands, Inspiring our People, Centering on our Customers, and Preserving the long term success and legacy of our Company are the foundation on which we build our future.

Red Wing Shoe Company is looking for a Sr. Product Developer, focused on footwear development, for our Red Wing brands. This position reports to our Design & Development Manager for our work and hunt brands. This role is a great opportunity for an experienced product developer to build and expand our presence in the global marketplace.

Qualified candidates must have a Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 10 years product development experience. Footwear manufacturing experience is essential.

Candidates must have excellent organizational and time management skills, the ability to solve development problems utilizing both shoe making knowledge and project management skills, excellent verbal and written communication skills and demonstrate ability to get results through collaboration with organizational partners. Candidates must be able to travel internationally.

Candidates should be very knowledgeable in technical footwear development.  This should include relevant experience in spec sheet construction, design translation, product and material testing, costing and advanced prototyping.  Experience with pattern engineering and project management is also preferred.  In this role the ideal candidate would be adept at working with multiple projects, brands and cross functional partners in their day-to-day role.  This candidate should also be comfortable leading group discussions and milestone meetings to sufficiently influence and impact their working teams.

We look for team members who have a professional and mature disposition, unquestioned integrity, moral character, and ethical values; one whom the organization can trust without reservation. The successful candidate will have attitudes and behaviors that promote management’s belief in the value of employees to the organization and uphold Red Wing’s core values of Respect, Integrity, Excellence and Community.

Red Wing Shoe Company will not be using recruitment agencies or firms to fill this position and we will not accept unsolicited resumes or candidate information. No agency calls please.

Red Wing Shoe Company, Inc. is a drug-free workplace.

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