Senior, Product Engineering - Converse

SENIOR, PRODUCT ENGINEER - CONVERSE
NINH BINH, NORTH VIETNAM

ABOUT CONVERSE 

Are you interested in working for the most iconic and well-loved sneaker brand in the world? Born in sports and made for the street, Converse is a place to explore your potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. We seek people who can lead, grow, think, dream, and create. Our culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. Converse seeks achievers, leaders, and visionaries. At Converse, it is about each person bringing their authentic self, skills, and passion to serve the daring spirit of youth. 

ABOUT OUR TEAM 

The goals of the Converse Global Sourcing & Manufacturing team are to Deliver Product Excellence, bringing to life and to market products that blow away consumer expectations and create the Manufacturing Network of the Future with capabilities to support our business. We believe this is possible by partnering with best-in-class manufacturers and investing in the right talent to: 

• Build capabilities to create innovative products that push the boundaries of our brand.

• Deploy responsive supply chain solutions that improve speed and deliver meaningful commercial impact.  

• Advance the resilience and sustainability of our supply chain through partner, performance, and risk management approaches. 

• Constantly improve our operational model to improve service, efficiency, cost, and quality

• Live our values and put people first to drive organizational effectiveness. 

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR

We are seeking a Senior Product Engineer to join our team based in Ninh Binh, North Vietnam. This role will be critical in supporting Global Sourcing & Manufacturing’s initiatives on leading the technical development and engineering execution of footwear products from concept through commercialization. This role ensures product designs meet performance, quality, manufacturability, cost, and timeline targets while collaborating closely with design, development, material, costing, manufacturing and factory partner teams.

The position plays a key role in translating creative concepts into production-ready footwear while maintaining brand standards and driving product innovation.

You will need to possess solid footwear product creation knowledge and the ability to work with functional team and our partner to develop their capabilities and cultivate a continuous improvement culture.You must be an effective communicator, team-player, and out-of-the-box thinker who can work cross-functionally and independently to succeed in this role.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher, or an equivalent combination of education, experience, or training.

• Minimum of 6 years of directly applicable footwear development or engineering experience across multiple footwear categories.

• Strong technical expertise in footwear construction including lasts, upper patterns, materials, chemistry, bottom tooling, injection, plates, costing, and test methodologies.

• Solid understanding of the end to end footwear product creation process, including production planning, forecasting, and scheduling.

• Demonstrated experience driving innovation through the Product Creation Process.

• Proven ability to lead engineering initiatives or strategies across broader footwear teams or functions.

• Team player and can work in an environment with high interdependencies between teams and cross-cultural colleagues.

WHO WILL YOU WORK WITH

This role is part of the Converse Partner Product Creation team and works closely with cross functional footwear partners including Design, Product Management, Product Development, Materials, Product Testing, PCC (Product Creation Center), Global Sourcing, and Planning. The role serves as the primary point of contact between funcitonal teams and factory partners and the Boston product team, ensuring clear and accurate communication throughout the product development process. This position reports to the Senior Director, Partner Product Development & Engineering Global.

WHAT WILL YOU WORK ON

You will work on converse footwear products, driving product and process excellence within a collaborative, cross functional environment. You will translate project briefs and 2D design tech packs into physical footwear samples that meet athlete, consumer, and business needs while providing technical leadership across Product Creation teams. You will:

• Identify and resolve key construction and manufacturing challenges to improve product cost, performance and quality.

• Engage in all phases of the product creation process to ensure projects are delivered on time and to critical dates.

• Partner with cross functional teams to meet design intent, performance goals, costing and profitability targets, sustainability objectives, and product integrity standards.

• Provide footwear engineering technical training and consultation to Product Creation and Tier 1 Product Creation teams.

• Lead the development and adoption of engineering standards and best practice documentation to scale globally.

• Collaborate closely with global and regional partners to ensure consistent execution and clear communication.