Director of Product Development

at  Branch Furniture

ABOUT BRANCH

Branch is shaking up the $46B office furniture industry to create an office experience for the 21st century: easy, affordable and flexible so you can sit down (or stand) and get to work. Office furniture hasn’t changed in a while-about 85 years, in fact. That’s the average age of the top twenty-five office furniture companies in America. None of them were born after the Internet. Branch makes beautiful and supportive work products for enterprises and home offices, too. Our mission extends beyond furniture into health, productivity and more.
We’re based in NYC and backed by the investors behind household brands like Quip, Caraway and Peloton. Our founders arrive with experience in partnerships, real estate acquisitions and venture building at leading real estate companies like Oxford Properties, SL Green and Redfin.
We’re an ambitious group of problem solvers innovating across software, design and logistics, and we’re looking for entrepreneurial teammates who like a challenge.

We are looking for a Director of Product Development to grow our product portfolio with the highest level of quality and user experience. You’ll lead the development, launch, and ongoing improvements of beautiful, functional, and accessible office products for our consumer, enterprise, and wholesale business lines. As the key catalyst for the furniture design team, you will be responsible for translating furniture designs into finished, shippable products.
The ideal candidate has a deep appreciation for physical products and blends expert process management with technical problem solving skills throughout development, production, and continuous improvement activities. You enjoy working at the portfolio level, delving into details, and communicating with internal and external teams, often all in the same day.
In your first ninety days at Branch, you will ramp up and ultimately own the development of all new and continuous improvement projects in motion. Working closely with the furniture team project manager, and in collaboration with cross-functional teams, you will build, orchestrate, and share critical processes, project updates, timelines, actions, and blockers. You will understand our processes inside and out and provide compelling strategies to launch more products smoothly and quickly.
This is an incredible opportunity to build the product development function at a category-defining, well-funded, and rapidly-growing startup. If you’re truly passionate about exceptional product development and want to improve the objects that our customers interact with for eight-plus hours a day, we’d love to meet you.