Product Developer (Technical Furniture Development)
As our new Product Developer, you will play a key role in shaping how furniture is developed, improved and scaled for a circular business model.
NORNORM is transforming the way businesses furnish their spaces through a subscription-based model rooted in circular economy principles.
As our circular business continues to scale, the focus is shifting from creating new products to continuously improving and optimizing existing products for repeated use, refurbishment and long-term performance.
As our new Product Developer, you will play a key role in shaping how furniture is developed, improved and scaled for a circular business model, where product performance is measured not only at first delivery, but across multiple lifecycles.
In this role, your focus will be on the technical product development centred around durability, functionality, operational performance and circular scalability while your creative colleagues in Range Innovation will focus on aesthetics and new range creation.
What you will be doing:
In this role, you will lead NORNORM’s product improvement agenda in close collaboration with the Product Team, Product Forum, Sourcing, Quality, Operations and external suppliers. Your responsibilities include:
Define and drive the product improvement agenda based on product performance data, operational insights, supplier input and market feedback.
Lead structured range reviews and translate commercial, customer and operational needs into clear priorities and product improvement briefs.
Drive product improvement projects from problem identification to implementation, coordinating suppliers and internal stakeholders to deliver durable, functional and operationally strong solutions.
Contribute to NORNORM’s circular design principles, ensuring products are designed for durability, repairability, refurbishment and repeated use.
What you bring:
We’re looking for someone with a strong technical furniture development background who is comfortable challenging traditional product development processes and helping define new standards for circular furniture.
We imagine that you have:
A relevant educational background within Mechanical Engineering, Product Development, Furniture Engineering, Industrial Design with a strong technical focus or similar.
5-7 years of experience within furniture product development.
Strong technical understanding of furniture construction, materials, production methods and cost drivers.
Experience working closely with suppliers on product development, technical problem-solving and product improvements.
Ability to define requirements, specifications and product briefs, and independently lead development projects from idea to implementation.
Ability to translate product feedback, operational input and performance issues into clear, prioritised product improvements and technical requirements.
A structured, analytical and pragmatic approach with strong execution capabilities.
Why join NORNORM?
Joining NORNORM means becoming part of a company challenging the traditional furniture industry through circularity, long-term thinking and a fundamentally different approach to how furniture is developed, used and reused.
In this role, you’ll work closely with products, suppliers, and operations, and you will play a central role in strengthening how circular furniture is continuously developed and improved.
We offer a collaborative, high-trust environment with significant ownership, short decision paths, and the opportunity to make a visible impact across both the product range and the wider business.
Our culture is shaped by our values - we care, we dare, we do, we make simple easy - and by people who are curious, courageous and motivated by building something meaningful together.
Practicalities
This role follows an office-first hybrid setup. We value both flexibility and collaboration, and our rule of thumb is simple: more on-site than off-site.
Please note that we unfortunately do not offer relocation support or visa sponsorship. Existing permission to work in Denmark is therefore a mandatory requirement.
- Department
- Circularity & Tech
- Locations
- Copenhagen
- Remote status
- Hybrid
Copenhagen
Our success depends on a strong corporate culture
We’ve taken on a great challenge: to re-invent the furniture industry.
Our mission is to create millions of workspaces that inspire people to do the best work of their lives. And we want our customers to experience that everything we do simply works.
Our success will depend partly on external factors, such as market maturity and competitors. But our success will also depend on the corporate culture we manage to build.
We define culture as “the beliefs, attitudes and behaviours that determine how we interact as colleagues and as business partners”.
Our KEY CULTURAL ASPIRATIONS are:
- Attracting and keeping highly talented and effective individuals who find that their time at NORNORM is time well spent.
- Teamwork fuelled by the synergy that comes from constructive contributions between passionate and skilled people who actively seek out each the perspectives of each other.
- Having the courage and stamina to be a game changer in the furniture industry.
OUR CORE VALUES are described as follow:
WE CARE
WE DARE
WE DO
WE MAKE SIMPLE - EASY
You will help shape our culture. There is work to be done every single day by all of us to continuously build a strong and positive culture. Every person who joins us helps to shape and evolve the culture further.
About NORNORM
Our vision for the workplace of the future is simple: integrate circularity into its foundation and demonstrate how it can benefit individuals, design, business practices and the environment.
Our fully integrated service covers everything from initial workspace design, installation, continuously adapting layouts, to the repair and replacement of all our "better-than-new" pieces. All this to ensure a workspace continuously maximises impact without compromising on it's benefits for people, your business or the planet.