Chief Product Officer - Apparel

Overview

Hybrid, London

Competitive salary + LTIP

We’re partnering with an internationally scaling, apparel brand to appoint a Chief Product Officer.

This is a rare opportunity to join a high-growth brand at a pivotal stage in its journey. With strong momentum, a highly engaged customer base and ambitious global plans, the business is now looking for a senior product leader who can shape the next chapter of growth through product excellence.

This is not a narrow product role. It is a strategic, commercially important leadership position with real influence across the business. The Chief Product Officer will lead the global product strategy and product creation engine, ensuring the brand continues to deliver distinctive, high-quality product while building the foundations to scale internationally.

Working closely with the CEO and wider leadership team, you will play a central role in defining how the brand wins through product over the next three to five years.

The opportunity

For the right person, this is a chance to do more than lead a function.

You will define the long-term product vision, strengthen category and assortment strategy, elevate product creation processes and build a world-class team capable of supporting a more complex global business. You will balance brand integrity, customer demand, innovation and commercial performance, helping the business scale without losing what makes the product special.

It is an exciting opportunity for a senior product leader who thrives in brand-led, pacey environments and wants to leave a genuine legacy.

What you’ll be doing

• Own and shape the global product vision and strategy
• Translate growth ambitions into a clear product roadmap across categories and seasons
• Lead category strategy, line planning and assortment architecture
• Oversee the end-to-end product creation process from concept through to launch
• Drive excellence across design, development, fit, fabric, quality and performance
• Improve pace, clarity and accountability across the product lifecycle
• Partner cross-functionally with commercial, marketing, merchandising, planning and ecommerce teams
• Use customer, market and trade insight to inform better product decisions
• Build and lead a high-performing product organisation for the next stage of scale
• Act as a key voice on the leadership team, contributing beyond the product function

What success looks like

In the first 12 to 24 months, success is likely to include:

• A clearer and more scalable product vision
• Stronger category architecture and line planning discipline
• Greater consistency and quality across the product offer
• Better decision-making on where to innovate, scale and simplify
• A stronger operating model across product creation
• Closer alignment between product strategy and commercial performance
• A more capable senior team and stronger product bench
• Product that continues to build brand authority and support international growth

About you

We’re looking for a high-calibre product leader with experience in scaled, premium, global, brand-led consumer businesses.

You will bring:

• Executive or near-executive product leadership experience within a consumer brand
• Deep expertise across product strategy, category management, line architecture and end-to-end product creation
• Strong commercial instinct and the ability to connect product decisions to growth, margin and customer demand
• Experience in premium, design-led environments with high standards around product quality and brand integrity
• A track record of building and leading senior teams through scale and change
• The credibility to work effectively with founders, creatives and commercial leaders
• Strong product instinct, customer empathy and clear judgement
• An international mindset, ideally with exposure to the US market

Personal style

You are likely to be:

• Strategic but hands-on
• Commercially sharp
• Calm, credible and influential
• Clear-thinking and high standards
• Comfortable in founder-led, fast-moving environments
• Able to bring structure without creating unnecessary complexity
• Ambitious, collaborative and grounded in execution

Why this role?

This is a chance to join a brand with real momentum and significant global opportunity ahead.

If you are excited by the idea of shaping product strategy at executive level, building a best-in-class product function and helping an internationally scaling brand strengthen its competitive edge, we’d love to hear from you.

We would love to respond to every application however due to the volume of applications we receive this isn\'t always possible. If you have not heard within 2 weeks of applying, please assume on this occasion that your application has not been shortlisted. We may retain your CV to contact you about future employment opportunities that are being managed by The Growth Foundation Talent.

The Growth Foundation Talent is deeply committed to building a diverse & inclusive workplace and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

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