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Polène Paris

Direct-to-consumer luxury leather handbags

Design Quality Specialist

Quality EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeÎle-de-France, FranceNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • You have 3 to 7 years of experience, including experience in product quality or development in leather goods.
  • You have essential knowledge of leather materials and manufacturing processes.
  • You can conduct product quality risk analyses, build associated risk-mitigation plans, and formalize production standards.
  • You can identify quality risks in prototypes and provide precise, constructive assessments.
  • You can lead prototype reviews and communicate with varied technical teams, including methods, design engineering, and workshops.
  • You have experience or strong interest in knowledge capture and building lasting reference systems.
  • You speak French fluently and have a good level of Spanish; basic English is sufficient.

Responsibilities

  • Define quality criteria for each new model in coordination with industrial development teams, including wear, durability, finishing, assembly, and repairability.
  • Serve as the quality point of contact for industrial development teams, coordinating with raw-material quality, finished-product quality, and collection teams.
  • Lead quality risk analyses for each new product and develop associated action plans, owners, and validation milestones.
  • Participate in model reviews and assess each prototype against quality criteria and identified risks.
  • Provide quality approval at each key milestone, including design-office master, production go-ahead, and partner-workshop masters.
  • Ensure product repeatability and reproducibility by documenting technical production handover standards, including manufacturing parameters, critical points of attention, and inspection criteria.
  • Coordinate internal wear tests by defining protocols, tracking observations, and translating feedback into concrete actions.
  • Build and update the design quality reference system after each development, recording lessons learned, good practices, and proven solutions.
  • Travel regularly to manufacturing sites and partner workshops in Spain.

Desired Qualifications

  • You are pedagogical, rigorous, curious, and collaborative, and can provide a quality assessment without blocking development.

About the Company

Polène Paris

Direct-to-consumer luxury leather handbags

Polène Paris creates luxury leather goods, focusing on handcrafted handbags and accessories designed in Paris. The company sells its products directly to customers online and through select retail partners, aiming at a global audience of fashion-conscious buyers. Its products are made with premium materials and built to be timeless, emphasizing quality craftsmanship over trendiness. Polène sets itself apart by combining traditional handcraftsmanship with modern, understated design and a selective distribution approach, rather than relying on mass-market channels. The goal is to grow a premium brand that offers durable, elegant pieces that resonate with discerning customers through strong social media presence and influencer collaborations.

Company size
501-1,000
Company stage
Seed
Total funding
$1.4M
Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
2016

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