Senior Product Development Manager, Beauty & Personal Care

eskiin is one of America’s fastest-growing beauty and wellness brands, and they are seeking a highly experienced product development professional to drive new beauty and personal care products from concept to commercial production. This role requires a hands-on individual who can work with urgency and take full ownership of the product development process.

Responsibilities:

• Personally drive multiple beauty and personal care products from concept through commercial production
• Translate product concepts into clear, actionable development briefs
• Source and work directly with formulators, chemists, labs, contract manufacturers and packaging suppliers
• Drive formulation, sampling, evaluation and rapid rounds of iteration
• Lead packaging development, sourcing, decoration and component compatibility
• Coordinate stability, compatibility, microbial and other required testing
• Support regulatory compliance and product claims with the appropriate partners
• Own product costing and negotiate COGS, MOQs, lead times and supplier terms
• Build aggressive but achievable development timelines and hold external partners accountable
• Identify the critical path for every product and run workstreams in parallel wherever possible
• Anticipate bottlenecks before they threaten launch dates
• Find alternative suppliers and solutions when the original path isn’t moving fast enough
• Work closely with creative, operations and marketing through commercialization and launch
• Maintain complete ownership until finished inventory is ready to sell

Requirements:

• 3-5+ years of hands-on product development experience within beauty, skincare, haircare, body care, personal care or cosmetics
• Proven experience personally taking multiple formulated products from concept through commercial production
• Experience working directly with chemists, formulators, laboratories and contract manufacturers
• Strong experience with primary and secondary packaging development and suppliers
• Deep understanding of formulation, sampling, testing, manufacturing and commercialization
• Experience developing body washes, cleansers, moisturizers, balms, body treatments, hair or scalp care or adjacent products
• Strong understanding of development timelines and how to compress them intelligently
• Excellent sourcing, negotiation and problem-solving skills
• Ability to personally drive several development programs simultaneously
• Existing relationships with manufacturers, labs, formulators or packaging suppliers are a major advantage
• Exceptional urgency, organization, resourcefulness and ownership
• Experience at a fast-growing beauty, personal care, consumer or DTC brand is strongly preferred