In short

This is your opportunity to become part of the worlds’ fastest growing sports company. As the Lead - Footwear Pattern Engineer of the sourcing office based in Vietnam, you are making an impact from day one to manage footwear product development and engineering with our manufacturing partners for the next level of On’s products.

Your Mission

• Establish pattern guidelines and ensure consistent implementation across all development centers.
• Develop precise footwear patterns for key styles based on designer sketches or concepts.
• Provide technical expertise and problem-solving support during product development meetings.
• Conduct pattern audits at each line review stage, ensuring alignment with aesthetic, comfort, and performance requirements.
• Optimize key style patterns to improve production efficiency, minimize material waste, and reduce costs.
• Lead the pattern commercialization process, maintaining technical accuracy and production feasibility while upholding design integrity.
• Ensure pattern grading adheres to production standards and aligns with material properties.
• Oversee product development and commercialization timelines to guarantee on-time deliveries.

Your story

• Champion On’s commitment to Premium Quality and sustainability, ensuring industry-leading standards in pattern engineering across all products.
• Proficient in CAD software (e.g., CRISPIN, ShoeMaster) and 2D/3D design tools, with the ability to create and refine precise patterns.
• Strong expertise in footwear manufacturing processes, material properties, and pattern engineering.
• Able to balance creativity with structure, maintaining efficiency and organization in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, working effectively across teams and departments.
• This position is based in Ho Chi Minh City or Hanoi and requires frequent travel to On’s manufacturing partners. Fluency in English is essential, as it is our working language.

Meet the team

You belong to the Footwear Sourcing team, with close collaborations with different functions, including Footwear Creation, Product Operations, Materials, Sustainability and Costing teams.

In short

You will work in a fast-paced environment that offers autonomy and opportunities for growth. As the Senior Lead – Laboratory for the Asia region, you will be instrumental in delivering world‑class laboratory operations aligned to global standards while driving localized execution, governance, and collaboration. You will act as the primary bridge between regional labs and the Zurich global lab leadership, ensuring consistency, data reliability, governance, and continuous improvement across all lab practices. You will champion standardization of processes, support local lab teams with training and operational excellence, and provide strategic input to enhance lab systems and reporting globally.

Your Mission

• Global Guidelines & Local Roll‑Out: Lead implementation and roll‑out of global lab guidelines, procedures, and standards across all labs in the Asia region. Translate global requirements into clear, actionable local practices, ensuring alignment with both global expectations and local realities.
• Collaboration & Leadership: Act as a strong partner to the Zurich Global Lab Lead offering timely feedback, actionable insights, and strategic input into the development and refinement of global lab frameworks. Drive cross‑functional collaboration product development, sourcing, quality, and compliance stakeholders to ensure integrated lab processes. Leading central lab team members to work collaboratively with operation lab specialists on driving to the same business direction.
• Supplier Representation & Transparency: Serve as the regional point of transparency for laboratory expectations and requirements across Tier 1 and Tier 2 business partners. Ensure structured escalation of operational issues, capability gaps, and compliance risks to Zurich labs, while actively gathering and representing supplier feedback to drive continuous improvement and expansion of the global laboratory framework.
• Governance & Standardization: Establish and maintain local governance structures aligned with global lab policies, ensuring consistent execution and adherence to standardized practices. Lead initiatives to eliminate regional variability and ensure reliable, repeatable methodology across labs.
• Audits & Quality Assurance: Coordinate and conduct internal audits, capability assessments, and compliance checks to validate alignment to global guidelines and local governance expectations. Partner with global and regional quality teams to remediate findings, embed corrective actions, and drive compliance consistency.
• Data Reliability & Reporting: Ensure integrity, accuracy, and traceability of lab data across regional facilities. Provide strategic recommendations and oversight for lab reporting systems, metrics tracking, and data governance frameworks, ensuring robust and trustworthy results.
• Training & Local Support: Design and deliver training programs, workshops, and onboarding to upskill local lab teams — fostering adoption of global methods and improved efficiency. Serve as the primary regional resource for troubleshooting, best practice adoption, and capability building.
• Systems Development & Continuous Improvement: Contribute to evolution of lab systems (PLM, data platforms), tools, and reporting dashboards with a focus on usability, accuracy, and operational efficiency. Identify process gaps and lead projects that improve automation, standardization, and lab output value.
• Team Hiring & Leadership. You will build, grow, and lead a high‑performing lab team in Asia. This includes: Recruiting top talent and scaling the lab organization, Coaching, inspiring, and developing direct reports to deliver excellence, Setting team goals, fostering accountability, and driving a culture of learning and collaboration.

What success looks like: 

• High level of efficiency and consistency across Asia labs in compliance, data quality, and execution of test methods.
• Regional lab operations that are fully aligned with global guidelines, local governance obligations, and audit expectations.
• Strong strategic partnership with the Zurich team, reflected in shared initiatives, process improvements, and operational efficiency gains.
• Continuous uplift in regional lab capability, knowledge sharing, and adoption of standardized practices.

Your story

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Science, Engineering, Materials, Chemistry, or related field (advanced degree preferred).
• 10+ years of experience in laboratory leadership, quality systems, or testing operations within the textile/apparel/consumer product industries.
• Proven experience in developing and implementing guidelines, governance frameworks, and standardized operating procedures.
• Strong collaboration skills and experience working with global cross‑functional teams.
• Demonstrated ability to drive improvement projects, audits, and compliance across complex environments.
• Experience in lab data systems, reporting tools development and implementation.
• Exceptional communication skills — capable of translating technical requirements into operational practices.
• Strong analytical thinking, project management, and training delivery expertise.
• Previous experience in global roll‑out of standards and lab governance highly desirable.

Meet the Team

This role offers the opportunity to be at the forefront of harmonizing global lab excellence with regional execution — shaping consistent, high‑quality lab practices that support innovation, compliance, and product performance around the world.

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Senior Lead - Footwear Development & Engineering

At a Glance:

This is your opportunity to become part of the worlds’ fastest growing sports company. On is not only disrupting the product landscape but also the supply chain. 

Your Team:

As a Senior Lead - Development & Engineering, you are responsible for leading the footwear engineering functions such as pattern, tooling... for the next-level of On’s products, as well as contributing to the improvement of production processes and product quality. As an important member of the Sourcing team, you will be based in Ho Chi Minh City or Hanoi as mission assigned.

Your Mission:

• Lead footwear engineering functions such as pattern, tooling etc.
• Establish guideline for pattern and last management
• Provide technical expertise and problem-solving support during product development meetings
• Lead process standardization in development and commercialization
• Work with innovation team to support the implementation of new technologies into inline production
• Live and share our commitment to sustainability, product integrity and quality, and drive initiatives that set ON apart from other brands
• Oversee product development and commercialization timelines to guarantee on-time deliveries.

Your Story:

• Strong expertise in footwear engineering with highly attentive to details, function and quality
• Experience in people management and stakeholder management in working with cross functional teams
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, working effectively across teams and departments
• Able to travel frequently to On’s manufacturing partners both in south and north of Vietnam

What we offer:

We offer a dynamic, challenging and sportive environment that has been ranked as the ‘fastest growing sports company’ of its time. With offices across the globe, we are an international team who is hungry to innovate and build something incredible. We foster an active environment where each individual thrives for excellence and can achieve their full potential. This is where your work matters, you’re hands-on and your team members are amongst the very best in their respective disciplines and fields. 

If you are driven to bring On to the next level, curious about the opportunity and want to be part of our growing team send us your application, and join the ONiverse!

On is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating a work environment that is fair and inclusive, where all decisions related to recruitment, advancement, and retention are free of discrimination.