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Assistant Product Developer (Color & Textiles)

New York, New York

Overview

We’re excited to add an Assistant Product Developer, Color & Textiles to our Product Development team. This role supports textile development and color management across categories, ensuring color accuracy, sample tracking, and key milestones stay on track from concept through launch.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Product Development, you’ll partner cross-functionally with Design, Production, Packaging, and Site Operations, and gain hands-on experience reviewing lab dips, yarn skeins, and color submits throughout the development process.

We’re looking for someone highly organized, detail-oriented, and excited to grow within product development at a thoughtful, customer-driven brand.

What You’ll Do

Support product development execution

  • Help track development timelines across product categories to ensure milestones stay on schedule.
  • Coordinate with Design, Production, Packaging, and Merchandising teams to keep development projects moving forward.
  • Maintain development calendars and assist with milestone reviews throughout the development process.
  • Help identify potential timeline risks and coordinate follow-ups to keep projects on track.

Execute color development and approvals

  • Support the execution of seasonal color palettes created by the Design team.
  • Track and review lab dips, yarn skeins, and color submits while coordinating internal reviews and supplier feedback.
  • Provide color comments and support approvals in partnership with product development and design teams.
  • Help ensure color reviews occur early in the development process so proto meetings can proceed with approved colors.
  • Maintain documentation of color approvals and revisions across development cycles.

Coordinate supplier communication

  • Assist in communication with global suppliers and factories to support sample development and color alignment.
  • Track color submissions and follow up with suppliers on revised submissions.
  • Help coordinate feedback between internal teams and suppliers when development questions arise.

Maintain product data and documentation

  • Update development documentation in PLM and WIP systems to ensure accurate product information across teams.
  • Maintain records of product specifications, color approvals, and development progress.
  • Help ensure development data remains organized and accessible for cross-functional teams.

Support operational improvements

  • Assist with initiatives that improve development workflows, sample tracking, and operational efficiency.
  • Help identify opportunities to streamline documentation and coordination across teams.

What Success Looks Like in This Role

  • Within the first several months, you’ll develop a strong understanding of Brooklinen’s product development timelines, color workflows, and internal systems.
  • You’ll help keep color submissions and samples organized and moving forward, ensuring lab dips, yarn skeins, and revised submits are reviewed efficiently.
  • You’ll build strong relationships with product development, design, and supplier partners while helping coordinate communication across teams.
  • Over time, you’ll help ensure color approvals happen earlier in the development process so proto meetings can move forward with approved colors.
  • You’ll maintain clear documentation so teams across the organization have visibility into product specifications, color approvals, and development progress.

We’re Looking For

Required qualifications

  • 1–3 years of experience in product development, sourcing, production, color management, or a related field.
  • Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple timelines and projects.
  • High attention to detail and strong follow-through.
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including supplier communication.
  • Proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets and comfort working with development trackers or product documentation.
  • Experience working with PLM systems or product development tracking tools.

Preferred qualifications

  • Experience reviewing or commenting on color through lab dips, yarn skeins, or color submits.
  • Experience working with home textiles, bedding, bath, or other sewn goods.
  • Familiarity with color systems such as Pantone or Munsell.
  • Experience reviewing color using a light box or similar evaluation tools.
  • Exposure to spectrophotometer readings or color measurement tools.
  • Experience working with BeProduct PLM or similar product lifecycle management systems.
  • Experience coordinating with global suppliers or factories.

Compensation

Base salary range: $55,000–$65,000, plus equity.
Compensation is determined based on experience, skills, and market data.

Benefits & Perks

• Up to 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage (employee-only)
• Fertility & family-building support (up to $20,000 lifetime)
• 401(k) with a 4% company match
• 16 weeks fully paid parental leave
• 20 vacation days (25 after 5 years) plus year-round Summer Fridays
• Hybrid work schedule with two core in-office days (Tues–Thurs)
• Remote Thanksgiving week and remote last week of December
• Up to four additional remote weeks per year with approval
• 40% employee discount plus seasonal product allowance
• One Medical, Talkspace, and $1,000 per year via Joon for wellness
• One-month paid sabbatical at five years

Why Join Us?

Brooklinen is a place where thoughtful people do meaningful work — with warmth, clarity, and shared purpose. We value care, collaboration, balance, and continuous growth. If this role excites you, even if you don’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. Diverse experiences and perspectives make us stronger.

About Brooklinen

Brooklinen was founded in 2014 with a simple belief: that comfort can bring happiness. Today, we’re one of the largest soft goods brands in the U.S., designing for real life and real homes with products that pair elevated quality and accessible pricing. Our assortment — from sheets and towels to thoughtful additions for the modern bedroom — has earned over 100,000 five-star reviews and recognition from Architectural Digest, Good Housekeeping, Wirecutter, and more. We’re growing thoughtfully, evolving intentionally, and committed to creating a home for people who care deeply about their craft — and each other.

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