Product Developer / Assortment Planner, Home Textiles

Job Title: Product Developer/Assortment Planner, Soft Home

Location: Monday – Thursday onsite, Friday remote

Overview

AXNY Home is launching a new premium soft home business spanning bedding, bath, and pet, and we are seeking a highly creative, commercially minded Product Development & Assortment Planning professional to help build and grow the collection.

This role will be heavily focused on product development, assortment creation, product strategy, and inventory planning, working closely with Design, Sourcing, Planning, Sales, and overseas vendors. The ideal candidate has a strong understanding of the home market, a refined eye for product, and the ability to translate trends, consumer needs, customer opportunities, and brand direction into compelling, commercially viable product assortments.

The role will own the development and organization of the product line from initial concept through sampling, costing, final assortment, and order readiness. This includes identifying product opportunities, building SKU assortments, determining product attributes and quantities, managing development timelines, and partnering with Planning to ensure the assortment is aligned with inventory needs, customer demand, and business objectives.

Categories will include bedding, bath, and pet, with the opportunity to expand into additional soft-home categories as the business grows.

Key Responsibilities

Product Development & Assortment Creation

• Partner with Design, Sourcing, Planning, Sales, and leadership to build seasonal and ongoing product assortments across bedding, bath, pet, and future soft-home categories.
• Develop product concepts and identify opportunities for newness, extensions, and key items within each category.
• Translate trends, consumer insights, customer needs, and brand direction into commercially viable products.
• Build and maintain detailed assortment plans and SKU-level product lineups, including categories, product types, sizes, colors, patterns, materials, fabrications, and price points.
• Identify assortment gaps and recommend new products, product extensions, and opportunities to broaden or deepen the collection.
• Develop cohesive assortments that balance design, quality, price, margin, inventory requirements, and customer demand.
• Determine appropriate SKU breadth and depth based on category potential, customer requirements, and inventory considerations.
• Work with Planning to establish initial inventory needs, SKU quantities, and order recommendations.
• Continuously evaluate the assortment and make recommendations for additions, changes, or exits based on business performance and market opportunity.

Product Development Process

• Partner closely with Design to translate seasonal concepts, trends, color palettes, patterns, and inspiration into commercially viable products.
• Communicate detailed product requirements to vendors, including dimensions, materials, fabrications, colors, prints, finishes, construction, packaging, and labeling.
• Manage products through the development process from initial concept and vendor development through samples, revisions, costing, and final approval.
• Review samples and provide clear, detailed feedback to ensure products meet design intent, quality expectations, target costs, and functional requirements.
• Coordinate with overseas vendors and agents on development timelines, sample submissions, product specifications, and revisions.
• Maintain accurate product specifications and development information throughout the lifecycle of each SKU.
• Identify opportunities to improve product construction, materials, functionality, quality, or cost.

Costing, Pricing & Sourcing

• Partner with Sourcing and vendors to develop products that meet target costs and margin requirements.
• Review and negotiate product costing, MOQs, and pricing with vendors and agents.
• Evaluate product cost in relation to materials, construction, size, packaging, and target retail.
• Work with Sourcing to identify the appropriate factories and vendor partners for new product development.
• Maintain accurate costing, pricing, MOQ, and vendor information for all products.
• Identify opportunities to optimize product costs without compromising design, quality, or customer expectations.

Inventory Planning & Order Readiness

• Partner closely with Planning to translate the assortment strategy into SKU-level inventory and order requirements.
• Help determine initial quantities and invent…