Head of LightSpray Product Integrity

Location: Zurich

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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.

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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.

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Footwear Development, Ho Chi Minh City

Unlike other brands, we aren't just executioners out here in Vietnam, we give ideas as well. Sometimes they have a new idea in Zurich and we might find a process to make it more efficient and we share that.

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What we offer

On is a place that is centered around growth and progress. We offer an environment designed to give people the tools to develop holistically – to stay active, to learn, explore and innovate. Our distinctive approach combines a supportive, team-oriented atmosphere, with access to personal self-care for both physical and mental well-being, so each person is led by purpose.

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.

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What to expect

We want to set everyone up for success, so here’s the lowdown on how we hire. Our process is a two-way street – bringing you into our culture, while helping us learn how you think.

Our full process can last about eight weeks from application to offer, because we care about getting it right. These steps explain how we usually do things.

Before you get started, feel free to consider if you want to work with us. Strange question? Well, we give people a lot of space to navigate their day-to-day and that style isn't for everyone. We want you to be passionate about what you do and be sure this is the right fit. Because when skills and passion combine – it creates that 'Wow' moment.