Full-Time
Product Development Operations Manager
Updated on 9/4/2026
CALPAK
11-50 employees
Designs and sells travel luggage
No salary listed
Gardena, CA, USA
Hybrid
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- Five to eight or more years of experience in Product Development, Product Operations, Production Coordination, or Product Lifecycle Management within accessories, handbags, luggage, travel goods, or consumer products.
- Strong working knowledge of product development workflows, milestone calendars, commercialization timelines, and stage-gate processes.
- Experience building, maintaining, and managing Bills of Materials, product specifications, and product data across multiple categories.
- Proven experience supporting product data accuracy and workflow execution within Product Lifecycle Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, or other product lifecycle management systems.
- Experience coordinating packaging development, documentation workflows, and retailer- or channel-specific packaging requirements.
- Strong project management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent deadlines across cross-functional teams.
- Demonstrated ability to identify operational risks, monitor development timelines, and escalate issues proactively.
- Exceptional attention to detail with strong process discipline and documentation management capabilities.
- Strong cross-functional communication skills with experience partnering across Product Development, Design, Production, Sourcing, and external vendors.
- Build and maintain Bills of Materials, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timely updates across all product categories.
- Execute Bills of Materials revisions, version control, and change management throughout the product development lifecycle.
- Maintain product data integrity and consistency across Product Lifecycle Management and internal systems, ensuring alignment across cross-functional teams.
- Monitor data discrepancies, workflow exceptions, and system gaps, proactively resolving issues and escalating risks as needed.
- Ensure adherence to product data standards, naming conventions, classification structures, and system governance protocols.
- Support Product Lifecycle Management data accuracy, process discipline, and ongoing system optimization initiatives.
- Coordinate licensor portal submissions, uploads, approvals, and status tracking.
- Track approval milestones and revision cycles.
- Maintain licensed product documentation and requirements.
- Communicate delays, bottlenecks, and approval risks.
- Manage packaging development workflows, coordinating submissions, approvals, revisions, and execution across internal teams and external partners.
- Define, track, and enforce retailer, channel, and program-specific packaging requirements to ensure full compliance and consistency.
- Maintain packaging standards, specifications, documentation, and version control across all product categories.
- Monitor packaging milestone adherence and proactively escalate risks, delays, or compliance issues impacting product launch readiness.
- Track and manage product testing requirements, ensuring timely communication of testing protocols, GCC documentation requirements, and compliance standards to Production and vendor partners.
- Coordinate testing submissions, compliance documentation follow-up, and record maintenance across all product categories.
- Maintain testing and compliance records, ensuring documentation is complete, accurate, and audit-ready within internal systems.
- Monitor testing timelines and documentation status, proactively identifying risks and escalating missing approvals, failed submissions, or compliance gaps.
- Maintain Product Lifecycle Management data accuracy, completeness, and system integrity across all active product development workflows.
- Monitor development calendar milestones and due dates across all active programs, ensuring cross-functional adherence to established timelines.
- Track milestone status, proactively identifying delays, bottlenecks, and workflow exceptions that may impact launch readiness.
- Support execution and enforcement of established product development processes.
- Support ongoing Product Lifecycle Management process optimization, workflow discipline, and system adoption initiatives.
- Provide additional support as needed.
- Familiarity with licensed product approval workflows, licensor portal submissions, revision cycles, and approval milestone tracking.
- Working knowledge of product testing, compliance documentation, GCC requirements, and third-party testing coordination.
Calpak makes luggage and travel bags that pair practical features with a playful, stylish vibe for both everyday trips and longer adventures. Its products are designed to be lightweight and durable, with useful details like organized compartments and expandable options so travelers can pack efficiently and move easily. Compared with many bag brands, Calpak emphasizes a distinctive blend of utility and fun in its designs, aiming to be accessible in price while still looking stylish. The goal is to encourage people to go places and enjoy the experience of traveling.
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Compton, California
Founded
1989
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- WWD covered CALPAK’s Spring 2026 launch on February 11, showing sustained brand momentum.
- The Taco Bell collaboration still drives cultural reach and low-cost customer acquisition.
- Spring 2026 personalization and canvas expansion deepen average order value across travel and everyday purchases.
What critics are saying
- Away and Monos dominate tested-luggage lists, squeezing CALPAK’s premium positioning in 2026.
- Reliance on viral Luka demand exposes CALPAK if social interest cools after 2026.
- A plastics-packaging crackdown threatens margins and SKU redesigns if California enforcement intensifies in 2026.
What makes CALPAK unique
- CALPAK’s February 2026 Spring campaign fuses luggage, lifestyle, and emotional branding.
- Its Luka line remains the signature asset, now expanded into printed versions and daily-use formats.
- The 2025 Baby Collection and 2026 Colette Canvas broaden CALPAK beyond core luggage.
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