Senior Technical Specialist

As a Senior Technical Specialist, you play a key leadership role in safeguarding Arc’teryx brand integrity through global maintenance of product construction standards, best production practices, and quality standards across all product categories and manufacturing locations. You will lead the development and implementation of advanced processes and standards, ensuring technical packages, construction specifications, and quality benchmarks meet the highest standards.

You will mentor team members, drive cross-functional alignment, and influence strategic decisions that impact product quality and brand reputation. This role requires strong collaboration with vendors, internal teams, and HKO teams to ensure operational excellence and continuous improvement.

This role is based out of our North Vancouver office and is open to hybrid work. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada.

The Product Integrity team ensures all products meet Arc’teryx quality standards. As a senior member, you will champion best practices, guide complex problem-solving, and support growth plans with existing and new vendors by providing leadership on advanced construction methods and material processes.

As a Senior Technical Specialist, you play a key leadership role in safeguarding Arc’teryx brand integrity through global maintenance of product construction standards, best production practices, and quality standards across all product categories and manufacturing locations. You will lead the development and implementation of advanced processes and standards, ensuring technical packages, construction specifications, and quality benchmarks meet the highest standards.

You will mentor team members, drive cross-functional alignment, and influence strategic decisions that impact product quality and brand reputation. This role requires strong collaboration with vendors, internal teams, and HKO teams to ensure operational excellence and continuous improvement.

This role is based out of our North Vancouver office and is open to hybrid work. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada.

• Serve as the technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) for apparel product integrity, providing expert guidance on construction methods, manufacturing processes, quality standards, product risk assessment, and Design for Manufacturability (DFM). Lead the identification and evaluation of Critical-to-Quality (CTQ) construction elements during product development and prototyping, ensuring product performance, manufacturability, and quality objectives are achieved.
• Lead technical reviews and risk assessments throughout the product creation lifecycle, identifying product, manufacturing, and quality risks, and driving mitigation strategies from concept through commercialization.
• Partner with Design, Materials Development, Advanced Concepts, Product Development, Pattern/Fit, and Manufacturing teams to ensure product intent, quality expectations, performance requirements, and manufacturing capabilities are aligned.
• Provide Product Integrity leadership during research, development, and commercialization, conduct quality reviews, DFM assessments, and technical evaluations on new materials, constructions, and product concepts.
• Review and approve technical documentation, construction standards, tech packs, and quality requirements to ensure manufacturability, consistency, and excellence of execution across product categories.
• Own and evolve Technical Quality Reviews (TQRs) and product risk evaluation processes, ensuring objective, data-driven decision making and proactive mitigation planning for high-risk…