On - Head of LightSpray Product Integrity - Zürich

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Footwear Product Creation

In short

Safeguard the integrity of the entire value chain by defining, implementing, and continuously improving world-class quality and compliance standards across product development, suppliers, manufacturing, and distribution. This role embeds premium quality and sustainability as non-negotiable principles, ensuring trust, consistency, and responsibility at every touchpoint.
Unlike a traditional senior role built around delegation to a large team, this position requires a hands-on expert who thrives in a cross-functional environment – working directly with specialists across functions, driving execution, and ensuring impact without relying on a large reporting structure.

Your mission

– Define, implement, and enforce world-class standards across development, suppliers, manufacturing, and distribution.
– Build and maintain robust systems for validation, testing, and certification that exceed both regulatory and premium consumer expectations and ensure maximum quality consistency everywhere in the world.
– Champion a culture where uncompromising quality is a defining brand differentiator.
– Establish integrated systems to track and analyze quality across materials, processes, products, and consumer use.
– Engage early with development and manufacturing teams to design quality in, rather than inspect it in.
– Benchmark against best-in-class industries to drive continuous improvement.
– Monitor, enforce, and advance environmental and social standards across the value chain.
– Drive initiatives in traceability, low-emission processes, and ethical labor practices that reinforce premium positioning.
– Define measurable KPIs and reporting frameworks to demonstrate leadership without compromising on quality.
– Act as the consumer’s voice to guarantee every product is safe, durable, reliable, and premium in feel and performance.
– Translate consumer insights and market feedback into tangible quality and sustainability improvements.
– Operate as a functional expert and execution driver, working directly with colleagues across Operations, Manufacturing, Development, and Strategy & Planning and Sustainability.
– Ensure new facilities, materials, and technologies deliver repeatable premium outcomes.
– Anticipate compliance, sustainability, and market shifts, aligning stakeholders and embedding solutions into business processes.

Your story

– 10+ years of deep functional expertise in quality management, compliance, and sustainability, within Sportswear Industry.
– 10+ years of hands-on leadership experience with a proven ability to drive initiatives end-to-end – from strategy through execution – rather than simply overseeing or delegating.
– Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to influence, align, and engage diverse teams and stakeholders without direct reporting lines.
– Analytical and data-driven mindset, capable of defining relevant KPIs, interpreting performance metrics, and translating insights into continuous improvements.
– Strategic passion for quality and responsibility, embedding these as key differentiators that enhance brand reputation and long-term business value.
– Willingness to travel, as required to connect with global teams, suppliers, and manufacturing partners.

Meet the team

Join the Lightspray™ team, a group of passionate innovators and entrepreneurial thinkers united by a single mission: to make high-performance footwear at scale, anywhere, anytime, while minimizing our environmental impact. We are pioneers, using technology-driven solutions to revolutionize the running shoe landscape from the ground up.