textile product developer

Textile product developers innovate and perform product design of apparel textiles, home textiles, and technical textiles (e.g. agriculture, safety, construction, medicine, mobile tech, environmental protection, sports, etc.). They apply scientific and technical principles to develop innovative textile products.

The most in-demand skills for this role include health and safety in the textile industry, textile marketing techniques, properties of textile materials, nonwoven machine technology, portfolio management in textile manufacturing, research and development in textiles. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.

Our AI-durability model gives textile product developer a score of 0.59 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.