About the Company: Join a fast-growing, entrepreneurial consumer goods business that’s doing real Australia and the USA. This small but powerful business works as a middle person between suppliers and buyers to design, develop, and follow the critical path to meet deadlines across the innovative hard goods across categories including arts and crafts, licensed products, and home and lifestyle.

About the Role: This is a hands‑on, end‑to‑end product development role where you’ll work across concepting, sourcing, sampling, and launch. You’ll collaborate with suppliers and internal teams to deliver products that excite customers and drive growth. Experience in product development is highly desirable, but we’re also open to candidates from brand management, buying, account management, or project management backgrounds within consumer goods, hard goods, or licensed product categories.

Key Responsibilities
Lead product development projects from concept to shelf
Collaborate with suppliers, designers, and cross‑functional teams
Manage critical paths, budgets, and quality standards




Conduct market and trend research across arts, crafts, and lifestyle categories
Support go‑to‑market strategies in Australia and the USA

About You
Experience in product development or related roles in consumer goods
Strong communication skills internally, externally and with overseas suppliers
Exposure to trend driven hard goods categories
Robust project management and stakeholder engagement skills
Commercially minded with a passion for product and innovation
Proactive, hands‑on, and thrives in a rapid paced setting

Why You’ll Love It
Small but mighty team with lots of expansion.
Exposure to the US market.
Reporting into the Head of Product, then into the CEO
South East Melbourne location – skip the CBD commute!

How to apply

Apply with an up to date CV and Lyndsay will be in touch!

Seniority Level: Entry level

Employment Type: Full‑time

Job Function: Product Management
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📌 Product Developer Melbourne
🏢 Sharp & Carter
📍 Melbourne