🌴 SENIOR PRODUCT DESIGNER

Don't know Dock & Bay? You're missing out, because we're great (and humble). Quick intro:

Our founders, Andy (Head Poncho) and Ben (Towel Wizard of Oz), started Dock & Bay back in 2015, after sharing the same struggle of standard towels being too bulky for their backpacks while travelling. It's a hard knock life, eh?

Fast forward 8 years and we're a certified B Corp, with 100+ products across 8 categories, selling in the UK, Australia, the US, Canada and Europe. Our mission is to make the world brighter and we need your help (if you fit the job description, obviously).

We're on the list of UK's Best Places to Work in Retail, Best Places to Work for Development, Best Places to Work for Women, AND officially a Sunday Times Best Place to Work. So you KNOW we'll look after you.

🎯 THE ROLE IN A NUTSHELL

We're looking for a Senior Product Designer to lead the design and development of our growing range of bags, accessories and outdoor lifestyle products. Reporting to our Head of Product Design & Creative, you'll own the product journey from spotting the next big opportunity and shaping seasonal direction through to technical development, production and launch.

You’ll play a key role in shaping the future of Dock & Bay’s product offering, combining brilliant design, innovation and commercial thinking to define where we go next. You’ll identify new categories and opportunities that play to our USPs, creating products that genuinely stand out in the market while shaping a clear roadmap for what we deliver now and where we want to be in the next 3–5 years.

This is a hands-on role, so you’ll be just as comfortable getting into the detail of a Tech Pack, factory sample or QC issue as you are stepping back to think strategically about what we should make next and why, working closely with our factories and Compliance Manager throughout.

✅ KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (NOW WE ARE GETTING SERIOUS)

• Own and shape Dock & Bay’s product roadmap, defining where we innovate next and translating our 3–5 year vision into clear product, category and development priorities.
• Use customer insights, market trends, competitor analysis and commercial opportunities to identify new categories and products that play to our USPs and have the potential to outperform what’s already in the market.
• Lead the end-to-end design and development of new products and categories, taking ideas from initial concept through to production and launch.
• Create detailed CADs, Tech Packs, BOMs and production specifications, ensuring our manufacturing partners have everything they need to deliver products to the right quality, cost and specification.
• Own the development process through sampling, testing, approvals and bulk production, building strong relationships with our manufacturing partners.
• Help manage our factory quality control process, working with manufacturing partners and our Compliance Manager to ensure products meet Dock & Bay’s quality, safety and compliance standards from development through to bulk production.
• Identify, assess and onboard new manufacturing partners to unlock new product innovations, materials and capabilities, continuously improving product quality, construction and production.
• Develop packaging alongside products and collaborate with Print Design, Compliance, Operations, Marketing and Sales to deliver a seamless product experience and successful launch.
• Balance innovation, functionality, quality and commercial performance, with the ambition to create products that genuinely stand out in the market while always feeling unmistakably Dock & Bay.
• Continuously improve how we develop products, embracing new technologies (yep, including AI 👀), processes and smarter ways of working as we grow.