Head of Product

At Claude & Co we are about more than clothes. We design with a lot of thought, a little playfulness, and most importantly with care. We make pieces that families feel good about choosing and love wearing, always with something unique that feels unmistakably Claude & Co.

Ten years in, we are a fast-growing independent brand, sold online and through leading department stores and independents around the world. We are led by our Founder and Creative Director, Abi, who is closely involved in the product, the brand and the detail. Product has always been at the centre of what we do, and the next chapter is about scaling it with the same care and attention at our core.

You will report directly to Abi. She is a real creative with deep pride in the detail of every Claude & Co piece, she sets the creative direction and sets the tone. This role exists to make that direction work in practice: leading the whole product discipline, and making sure communication between Abi, leadership and the product team works at its best in both directions.

It's so much about trust within that process and that relationship together. We need someone who can bring clarity and run the function.

You will lead design, garment technology, buying and merchandising, manage a team of eight. This is not a role about being the expert in one discipline. It is about the wider perspective: seeing how every part of product connects, and building the processes, rhythm and improvements that let our talented team do our best work and feel good about it.

At its heart, this is a management role. Great management of this team is the most important thing you will do, and you will love that side of the role as much as the product.

This is not a corporate style role. We are a fast paced scaling business and a brand, and product touches everything: retail, wholesale, our store, marketing, photoshoots, ads, margins and budgets. You will be hands-on, visible across every team, and thrive on it.

You will work hand in hand with our Head of Marketing: from range plan to launch, and shared accountability for brilliant product landing with its story.

• Set clear accountabilities, coach and develop each person, hold regular one to ones and give honest feedback
• Understand each discipline well enough to lead it, and each person well enough to know what they need from you
• Build a team that trusts each other and owns its results

• Sit between Abi, leadership and the product team, and make both sides work better
• Resolve what can be resolved, and bring the right questions up early with a clear recommendation
• Turn direction into briefs and priorities the team can act on

• Own the critical path as the single version of the truth, from concept to delivery
• Be really curious about the why: do we have to do it like that? What else might we do?
• Build the systems, sign-off gates and handovers that make great product repeatable

• Be ultimately accountable for the range plan, option counts, price architecture, margin, open to buy and sell-through across D2C and wholesale
• Read the trade weekly, and plan the next season and years from what the last one taught us
• Manage and develop our factory partners around the world, protecting cost, quality and our ethical standards
• Travel when needed

• Make sure product lands on time with its story, imagery and stock, for marketing, photoshoots, retail and wholesale

• You are a people leader first, with a wide view of product and a commercial head
• You get your energy from developing others and building the structure that lets a team thrive
• You enjoy working closely with a creative founder, respect the…