Rapha Racing

Mid-Level Product Developer - mat cover London Mid-Level Product Developer The Product Development team is key to the product creation process, combining expertise with passion to bring product to life. We are a dynamic team with a strong work ethic, together with great team spirit that makes working at Rapha as a Product Developer a unique experience. The Role - A key role that is accountable for product ranges to ensure all briefs and critical dates are met. Owning the development of a product collection, ensuring functionality and performance requirements. - Responsible for building and maintaining strong relationships with our tier 1 and tier 2 vendors with trips and continuous daily communication. Ensuring all critical path dates and KPIs are met by Rapha and our vendors. - Analysing reports from tracking documents, highlighting when inaccuracies or missed stage gates occur. - Collaborate cross functionally with design, atelier and supply chain and garment tech teams to ensure that products are risks assessed in a timely manner and that any subsequent risks are mitigated and managed. - Work closely with the design team on initial pattern development and construction. - Drive the sample approval process throughout the product lifecycle. - Experience in cost engineering, ensuring the product is built to meet target costs and margins, working x-functionally throughout the process. - Communicate constructional comments to our vendors through the PLM system. Collaborate closely with Product Management, Design and Atelier teams to ensure continuity across all areas. - Take part as a key function in weekly meetings and fit sessions, offering feedback on vendor capabilities and constructional restraints that will impact the development of products. - Initiate and manage wear testing and lab testing protocols - Review construction, measurements and quality of all samples. - Build, maintain and update product tech packs and the product Bill of Materials on our PLM system, across new styles, carry overs and prints. - Travel to suppliers, trade shows and events as required. - Ensure that Rapha quality and performance standards are met throughout the sampling and production process. - Be part of the quality assurance process within Rapha, an ability to understand and assess Quality Control reports from the supplier, identifying product risks. The Candidate Reporting to a senior member of the team, this role will ensure that all products are truly fit for purpose, are of the highest quality and delivered in a timely manner. An effective internal negotiator, this person will be a natural role model to the team. - A graduate, ideally with a degree in fashion / textiles / sportswear or equivalent work experience. - Experience working for an apparel brand. - Excellent time management and organisational skills. - Confident in making decisions within their remit, a strong and natural leader. - Effective communicator at all levels of the business. - Strong understanding of costing templates, variables within manufacturing and the impact of construction, materials and patterns to a product. - A determined team player, who is able to support team members with their knowledge and confidence. - Ideally has experience working with technical performance materials. - Must have an excellent attention to detail and be proficient in using Mac OS, Adobe Illustrator and G Suite. Confident working on CAD’s, Lay-plans and print files using Adobe Illustrator. - Must be able to challenge the status quo and question to ensure the product brief is met and that the vendors are receiving all correct and up-to-date necessary technical information - Ability to travel domestically and internationally as needed, experience and knowledge of working with overseas factories is helpful but not essential. - Ideally a cyclist or sports enthusiast, who is keen to develop their riding skills and use their passion for sport to improve our product range. Working at Rapha We are continuously looking into ways to invest in our employees and build a better working culture and environment. Here are just some of the internal benefits we offer: - Flexible working hours - Support for ad-hoc remote working during the week - minimum 4 days in office - 25 days annual leave - 2 additional days paid time off to participate in a sportive or similar related cycling event - A flexible riding benefit to allow you to go out riding on a Wednesday morning with colleagues or learn to cycle through our Getting Started Scheme - 2 Company Bike Ride days per year - An annual clothing allowance of £1,200 for testing and promotional purpose - A company bonus scheme - A health cash plan provided by Healthshield worth up to £1405 per year - Mental health support with MyndUp - Free barista coffee and social drinks in the office - Subsidised lunches 3 days per week - Office social events, talks and Q&As with industry and sporting leaders - Bike racing expenses up to £35 per race entry - A 50% staff discount and a discount for family and friends - Industry discounts on brands such as Patagonia, Osprey, Finisterre, Wahoo - Free membership to the Rapha Cycling Club - Cycle2Work scheme - Company Pension Scheme - Enhanced Parental Leave and Pay Department Product Development Locations Service Course, London

DACH Marketing Manager Germany The DACH Marketing Manager will contribute to this mission by driving brand growth, cultural relevance and community momentum across Germany, Austria and Switzerland - one of Rapha’s most important regions. THE ROLE As DACH Marketing Manager, you lead Rapha’s brand marketing across Germany, Austria and Switzerland, with Germany as the primary focus. You own the regional marketing plan, build cultural relevance in a highly competitive market, and ensure Rapha’s presence in DACH reflects both global ambition and deep local understanding. Germany is home to two of Rapha’s 18 global Clubhouses, in Berlin and Munich, and an established RCC membership base. Despite this strong foundation, the region has become increasingly competitive. You are Rapha’s on-the-ground marketing lead: building the athlete and ambassador relationships that give the brand cultural credibility, showing up at the events that matter to German cyclists, and working alongside RCC and Retail partners to extend Rapha’s reach beyond the Clubhouse cities. This role is fully remote anywhere in Germany - ideally based out of a major city. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES DACH Brand Marketing Strategy - Develop and lead Rapha’s DACH brand marketing strategy, identifying the key moments, partnerships and initiatives that will drive brand growth (revenue and customer base) and cultural relevance across the region. - Translate global brand priorities into locally resonant activity, ensuring DACH campaigns reflect Rapha’s identity and the distinctive cycling culture of the region. - Identify priority communities, events and cultural touchpoints where Rapha must show up to win in DACH - across endemic cycling, women's cycling and the wider culture that surrounds the sport. Events, Sponsorship & Brand Activation - Own Rapha’s events strategy across DACH, identifying and activating the races, gran fondos and cultural cycling moments that matter most to our target audiences with the aim of attracting new customers. - Develop distinctive DACH-led brand initiatives and activations, identifying key moments in the regional sporting and cultural calendar where Rapha can build relevance, reclaim cultural authority and grow its audience. - Build and manage our DACH athlete and ambassador ecosystem, partnering with riders who authentically represent the brand and activating them across events, campaigns and storytelling. - Identify emerging talent and cultural voices that align with Rapha’s values and can extend brand reach to new audiences. - Lead end-to-end activation of sponsored events and brand experiences - on-site presence, athlete integration, content capture and press amplification, ensuring every activation builds brand heat. community engagement and attracts new customers. Community, Content & Partnerships - Support the global RCC brand programme with locally relevant content and activations that showcase the vibrancy of the DACH cycling community, making the club feel compelling and membership worth having. - Work alongside the EU Regional Community Manager and Community Leads in Berlin and Munich to build Rapha’s presence and RCC Community in our primary DACH metros. - Use Berlin and Munich Clubhouses as activation hubs while driving brand presence in key cities beyond them, working alongside RCC teams rather than duplicating their efforts. - Work alongside the RCC Satellite Manager and Retail team to provide marketing activation support for satellite community launches and retail pop-ups, leading local audience building, content and social amplification. - Develop DACH-led storytelling - riders, routes, events and culture - that contributes to Rapha’s content ecosystem and fuels owned, earned and social channels. - Identify and develop co-marketing partnerships with local retailers, cafés, studios and cultural spaces that extend Rapha’s reach into DACH cycling communities, particularly in satellite cities. - Work with the Wholesale Marketing Manager to align DACH wholesale partners to campaign activity and product launches, ensuring brand consistency across all retail touchpoints. - Feed market insight from satellite, pop-up and partnership activity back to RCC and Retail partners to inform future investment decisions. PR & Earned Media - Work in close partnership with the Global Media & Influence Manager to translate and execute Rapha’s PR strategy for the DACH market. - Support the day-to-day running of Rapha's DACH PR agency, ensuring briefs are landed well and output is delivered to a high standard, securing coverage across endemic cycling, lifestyle and business press. - Re-engage the German and DACH media, building meaningful journalist relationships beyond press release distribution and product seeding. Performance & Market Impact - Increase footfall to clubhouses, grow active customer base in the region and maximise data capture at all events and touchpoints - Track and report on DACH marketing performance across brand, community and commercial metrics, providing clear recommendations to senior leadership. - Monitor competitive activity and market trends, identifying opportunities to reclaim and extend Rapha’s position in the DACH market. - Maintain strong budget discipline across all marketing investment, ensuring measurable impact against agreed KPIs. SKILLS - Strategic regional marketing planning and execution - Events sponsorship, negotiation and end-to-end activation management - Athlete and ambassador programme management - Community-led brand building and cross-functional collaboration - Local partnership development and wholesale/retail brand alignment - Senior stakeholder and partnership management - Content strategy and storytelling to drive earned media impact - Deep understanding of the DACH cycling landscape: events, culture, media and communities - Budget ownership and performance tracking - Fluency in German and English (written and spoken) is essential Working at Rapha We are continuously looking into ways to invest in our employees and build a better working culture and environment. Here are just some of the internal benefits we offer: - Flexible working hours - 25 days annual leave - 2 additional days paid time off to participate in a sportive or similar related cycling event - A flexible riding benefit to allow you to go out riding on a Wednesday morning - An annual clothing allowance of £1,200 for testing and promotional purpose - A company bonus scheme - Mental health support with MyndUp - Bike racing expenses up to £35 per race entry - A 50% staff discount and a discount for family and friends - Industry discounts on brands such as Patagonia, Osprey, Finisterre, Wahoo - Free membership to the Rapha Cycling Club - Company Pension Scheme - Enhanced Parental Leave and Pay Department Brand Marketing Locations Germany

• Build and deliver a rolling 12–18 month activation calendar aligned with global brand priorities and the regional cycling calendar. • Collaborate closely with the USA Marketing Manager to ensure alignment with the broader US strategy, USA Cycling roadmap and campaign calendar. • Identify and execute high-impact activation opportunities across owned, partner and wholesale events. • Represent the Rapha brand to riders, partners, athletes and industry stakeholders at major events. • Own the end-to-end delivery of all US brand activations, including USA Cycling event execution and satellite community hero moments. • Manage production, suppliers, staffing, budget and on-site operations to ensure consistent, premium physical brand presentation. • Own and maintain Rapha’s activation assets, including the activation vehicle, and oversee its deployment across the region. • Deliver industry-leading physical experiences that inspire participation, engage RCC members, convert new customers and elevate athlete presence. • Support day-to-day liaison for USA-based sponsored athletes (excluding USAC governance managed by the Marketing Manager), coordinating logistics, servicing and on-site support. • Proactively identify and integrate athletes into activations and community initiatives to maximise cultural and commercial impact. • Collaborate with the Global Content team and USA Marketing Manager to originate and capture compelling athlete-led content, both always-on and campaign-driven (e.g. race moments, partnership initiatives). • Identify storytelling opportunities on the ground and ensure high-quality on-site capture for social, digital and campaign rollouts. • Own the amplification of the activation programme through @rapha_n_america (or equivalent), delivering engaging regional content aligned with brand guidelines. • Leverage athlete and partner relationships to maximise reach, engagement and audience growth. • Drive physical brand presence in priority metros and growth markets, supporting RCC membership growth and increased market penetration. • Ensure activations generate measurable new customer acquisition and meaningful rider engagement.