VP Product Development

Consumer Goods | Design-Led | High-Growth

Glass Ratner’s Private Equity Practice have partnered with a rapidly growing, design-forward Canadian owned consumer goods company to hire a Vice President of Product Development . This leader will shape the next era of innovation as the company expands across both e-commerce and major retail channels.

The business is known for bringing premium, modern, design-led products to market at scale. With a strong engineering foundation and increasing retailer demand, the organization is ready to elevate its upstream strategy, ideation discipline, and commercialization capability.

This role works closely with the CEO and functional leaders across Marketing, Engineering, Operations, and Finance to drive brand product and category expansion.

What You Will Do

Upstream Strategy & Market Fit – Essential

• Partner with the CEO and leadership team to determine the product strategy and priority initiatives (“What shots are we going to take?”).
• Lead ideation for new product categories, product extensions, and improvements to existing items (sizes, textures, colours, materials).
• Build business cases including BOE assessments, size-of-prize analysis, and share targets.
• Conduct market, trend, and consumer insight work to determine brand fit and channel fit across e-commerce and retail.
• Bring strong design intuition and trend awareness.

Product Development Oversight – Essential

Go-to-Market (GTM) Execution – would be of added value but not essential

What You Bring

Experience

Leadership & Personal Attributes

Who You Are

Why This Role

If this sounds interesting to you, or anyone in your network, please apply or reach out to Benish Khan (Bkhan@glassratner.com) or Marty O'Doherty (Modoherty@glassratner.com).