Region: Canada
State: British Columbia
City: Vancouver
Business Unit: Store Support Centre (SSC)
R&D Manager, Whitespace Labs
Description & Requirements
lululemon athletica Founded in 1998 in beautiful Vancouver, BC lululemon athletica elevates the world to greatness through products that create transformational experiences for people to help live happy, healthy and fun lives. Whitespace and why we need you… The Whitespace team shapes, surprises and engineers delight into future guest experiences by applying net new thinking to knowledge generation, product functionality, advanced technology and business processes. In our state of the art facility we go beyond classic R&D methodologies and dive into all areas of human performance and potential through mind and body explorations. We need you to lead scientific research and collaborate closely with advanced prototyping by working on short, mid and long-term projects to establish and sharpen our unique point of view, working directly with our athletes, employees and guests to help make the plausible, possible for integration to the lululemon business of the future.
A day in the life of an R&D Manager Good morning! Your morning yoga and run in that latest prototype under review has been the perfect preparation for your busy day with the innovation platform teams. Your new perspective of the results provides the perfect backdrop for your call with your global research partners. Next you have a workshop with the thermoregulation and advanced concept design teams and…
• You get hands on with, and are the primary owner of applied scientific research through a wide array of proven techniques in both lab and field based trials across multiple physical activities in a variety of environmental conditions
• Your broad technical understanding, creative energy and inquisitive nature focuses your attention into what does not exist, you are bold enough to believe that the world is ripe for change and you are the one to lead it
• Your appetite to connect research to meaningful commercial product opportunities has you engaging and partnering constantly with our product teams, with you acting as the champion for collaboration and bringing the human to the end to end product creation process.
• You lead by example and mentor with ease, encouraging your team to deliver and hold a strong scientific perspective, continually strive to bring in new ideas, scientific techniques and solutions, and encourage partnership with all aspects of the business to ensure commercial success.
• You continually inject your instinctive and acquired expertise, which you have focused in a particular scientific discipline, but have demonstrated range across a variety of human science disciplines
• You thrive in your accountability, and ensure successful flow and integration of, longer term research into seasonal product co-creation
• You inspire audiences with strong communication, ability to market research, and connect it to proposed guest value.
• You confidently and openly influence creative and commercial individuals by being comfortably responsible for the handling of bringing insights to life within and around your extensively proven discipline …
by the time 5:30 rolls around, you’ve hit a target, set a goal and changed the world just a little bit!
The finer print You have a Masters degree and / or PhD in physiology, biomechanics or sport science for applied innovation You have 5-10 years’ experience influencing product creation, business ‘thinking’ and unlocking new knowledge You are a proven entrepreneurial leader and have a strong ability to engage and build relationships internally and externally You have applied solutions to influence the generation of scientific insights and have an obsession for health and sport You have specific experience in working with hugely diverse groups of athlete demographics across the world You are able to work with depth and breadth across multiple, complex and simultaneous cross-functional projects You have strong awareness of commercial business needs and are proven in working to tight timelines and translating research into commercial products You educate others and you never stop educating yourself You sweat every day because you are the best product tester you know
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Only those applicants under consideration will be contacted. Please accept our utmost appreciation for your interest. lululemon is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on merit and business needs, and not on race, color, creed, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions or any other classification protected by federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request. This Equal Employment Opportunity policy applies to all practices relating to recruitment and hiring, compensation, benefits, discipline, transfer, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment. While management is primarily responsible for seeing that lululemon equal employment opportunity policies are implemented, you share in the responsibility for assuring that, by your personal actions, the policies are effective.
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