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Overview
The role connects design and production by translating specifications into technical requirements, selecting materials and components, preparing patterns or drawings and testing samples against quality and price constraints.
In job descriptions, look for leather goods collections, samples, technical drawings, pattern engineering, materials, components, prototype testing, ergonomics, fashion trends and production-line requirements.
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Search jobsWhat the work can involve
This work translates a design concept into a product that a workshop or line can make. It can include technical drawings, materials selection, component choices, pattern work, sample review and prototype testing.
Skills and specializations
Useful strength combines leather materials, product construction, sketching, pattern engineering, ergonomics, fashion trend reading and clear communication with designers, production and commercial teams.
Salary context
Pay is usually read through product responsibility, technical decision scope, prototype complexity, supplier or customer contact and whether the role owns collection development.
Career paths
Career movement can lead toward senior product development, collection management, technical design, sample-room coordination, quality leadership or product management for leather goods.
Good to know
Check whether a vacancy focuses on concept translation, patterns, samples, production handover, material sourcing or marketing input. Those details show whether the job is more technical, design-led or commercially linked.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context, not official labour-market statistics or role-specific pay data.
Where might this occupation occur?
This occupation may occur in several kinds of economic activity. Here are some examples and other occupations that may be found in the same areas.
Manufacture of leather clothes and fur apparel
This is one example. Another occupation in this activity is leather goods designer.
Explore this activityIndustrial product and fashion design activities
This occupation may also occur in this activity. Other occupations there include leather goods designer, footwear designer and textile designer.
Explore this activityManufacture of leather and related products of other materials
Another possibility is this activity. Other occupations there include leather goods designer, industrial designer and leather goods industrial engineer.
Explore this activityThese examples offer an overview but do not show every economic activity where the occupation may occur.
About this information
The selection is based on how occupations are connected to economic activities in ESCO and NACE. Only a few examples are shown to make the information easier to use. The occupations were selected because they are close in occupation area and important skills. The examples are not a ranking. They do not show where most people work, where demand is highest, or which occupation is best suited to a particular person.
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Click the map to search for leather goods product developer jobs. Figures come from EURES. Searches open national sources where available, so counts may differ.
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O*NET relationships
See occupations connected to this ESCO occupation in the official O*NET–ESCO mapping. The relationship type comes from the source and is not a ranking or recommendation.
O*NET relationships: 2
Manufacturing Engineers
17-2112.03
O*NET occupation is broader
The O*NET occupation covers a broader field of work than this ESCO occupation.
Open in O*NETCommercial and Industrial Designers
27-1021.00
O*NET occupation is broader
The O*NET occupation covers a broader field of work than this ESCO occupation.
Open in O*NETSource and method
These relationships come from the official European Commission O*NET–ESCO crosswalk.
Mapping project version 1: O*NET-SOC 2019 → ESCO 1.1.0. Targets are validated against ESCO 1.2.1.
Source: European Commission, joint ESCO Secretariat and USDOL/ETA project. O*NET Database: USDOL/ETA. This presentation uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission.
Relationship direction: O*NET occupation to ESCO occupation.
Several O*NET occupations can point to the same ESCO occupation, and one O*NET occupation can point to several ESCO occupations.
AltoTrail preserves the source relationship type. The order is technical and does not show which occupation is best, most relevant or recommended.
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Official sources and licenses
NACE Rev. 2.1
Economic activities linked to this occupation.
15Manufacture of leather and related products of other materials74.11Industrial product and fashion design activities14.24Manufacture of leather clothes and fur apparel
Alternative labels
Occupation group
Product and garment designers (2163)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/d515e82a-ca9f-4be4-9823-33694dff7304 |
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| ESCO code | 2163.2 |
| ISCO group | 2163 |
| Concept type | Occupation |