Senior Product Manager, Quince
Vendor Quality Platform
$204-226k
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
Affordable luxury fashion & home goods
Open for applications
Affordable luxury fashion & home goods
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$204-226k
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create products of equal or greater quality than the leading luxury brands at a much lower price.
Role
Who you are
- 5–7+ years total experience; 3+ in product management building internal platforms or supply-chain/operations products
- Proven launches of workflow/API products used by external partners (vendors, 3Ps) and internal operators
- Technical fluency (APIs, data pipelines, event models); ability to translate standards into system rules
- Data-driven; comfortable with SQL and experimentation to validate gating logic and thresholds
- Excellent communicator across executive, business, factory, and engineering audiences
Desirable
- Supplier-quality or private-brand apparel/consumer goods experience
- Familiarity with inspection/lab networks (e.g., Intertek, SGS, BV, QIMA) and PLM/ERP (e.g., TradeBeyond/CBX)
- Experience with computer vision for defect detection or production monitoring
- Background designing workflows, vendor incentives, and scorecards
- Time in both high-growth startups and scaled, global supply chains
What the job involves
- The Senior Product Manager, Vendor Quality Platform will build the technology that orchestrates every quality touchpoint across our vendor and supply chain lifecycle:
- Multi-sided quality platform for vendors, 3P inspectors, and labs
- Risk matrix driving auto-gated audits, inline/DUPRO, final inspections, and lab tests
- QC deployment logic at vendor/factory level with smart booking & dispatch
- Quality data lake & scorecards that tie to chargebacks, returns, and CSAT
- AI/computer vision to detect defects and production issues early
- Tight integrations with PLM/ERP/WMS/TMS, Sourcing, Logistics, and Merchandising
- Strategy & Vision: Define a 12–24 month roadmap for the Quality Platform (inspections, labs, scorecards, AI)
- Establish risk tiers, AQL/sampling standards, and compliance gates baked into workflows
- Make “build vs. buy” decisions across inspection/lab providers and platform components
- Ship v1 of automated QC booking & dispatch and risk-based inspection gating in first 6 months
- Launch vendor/factory quality scorecards with workflows and SLA tracking
- Deliver stable integrations to at least one 3P inspection/lab network and our PLM/ERP
- Drive platform SLOs (availability, latency) and auditability across all decisions
- Partner with Sourcing/Production/Logistics/Merch to align pre-PO checks and pre-ship holds with quality gates
- Work with QA/QC Ops to codify procedures into productized playbooks
- Coordinate with Legal/Compliance for regulatory testing, documentation, and record retention
- Enable Data/ML to operationalize computer-vision and anomaly detection
- Final-inspection Right-First-Time (RFT); defect rates (critical/major/minor) at AQL
- Inspection & lab lead time, retest rate, and on-time ship adherence
- Compliance pass rate; % shipments auto-approved by rules
- Return/defect-related CSAT lift; Cost of Quality (prevention/appraisal/failure) reduction
- Vendor Quality Score improvement
Our take
Recently, there has been more widespread awareness of the alarming waste of resources and environmental impact caused by the fast fashion industry. Recognizing these concerns, Quince is looking to offer a more sustainable alternative to consumers.
Quince is a direct-to-consumer brand that offers high-quality products at lower prices by cutting out the middlemen. The company provides wardrobe staples and home goods, with an emphasis on minimalism, simplicity and timeless designs.
The company works directly with factories to produce inventory on a near-just-in-time basis. By eliminating unnecessary intermediaries, Quince can streamline the supply chain and reduce financial and environmental waste.
This approach allows Quince to ship goods directly to consumers' doorsteps, providing a more efficient and sustainable shopping experience. This has proven very popular, allowing the company to raise significant funding, reach a valuation of $4.5 billion and expand to Canada.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
58% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2025
$200m
LATE VC
Jan 2025
$120m
SERIES C
Total funding: $397m
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sid Gupta
(CEO & Co-founder)Graduated from Stanford University with an MBA in Finance. Previously the Founder and CEO of Lolli and Pops as well as the Director of Strategy at TechTurn.
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