Head of LightSpray Product Integrity

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. About 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.