Beauty Product Development & Launch Lead

Gisou by Negin Mirsalehi; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote 1 day/week

Lunch provided by Feedr

Team activities and drinks

ClassPass subsidy

Mental health support

Bike leasing

Annual employee gift card

Job summary

Gisou is a rapidly growing beauty scale-up seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead cross-functional initiatives across product development, operations, and launches. You will own timelines, coordinate internal teams and external partners, and ensure timely delivery of complex campaigns while balancing cost and quality.

You will collaborate with founders, suppliers, and manufacturing partners to drive accountability, manage risks, and deliver successful product introductions across

Qualifications

• 4–7+ years of experience in project management, product development, or operations within beauty or FMCG.
• Highly structured and thrive in managing multiple complex projects and launches simultaneously.
• Natural coordinator who brings clarity, alignment, and momentum across diverse stakeholders (internal teams, founders, suppliers, and manufacturers).
• Confident working with external partners, able to challenge timelines, negotiate solutions, and push for accountability when needed.
• Strong experience in end-to-end product lifecycle management, from development through industrialisation and scale-up.
• Excellent communicator, able to translate complexity into clear updates, decisions, and action plans for senior stakeholders.
• Highly proactive, solutions-oriented, and able to anticipate risks before they become issues.

Responsibilities

• Track critical path milestones and proactively flag risks and delays to founders and stakeholders.
• Drive accountability across suppliers and internal teams to keep launches on schedule.
• Maintain clear documentation: approval records, change logs, cost trackers.
• Maintain project plans across multiple simultaneous launches and brand portfolios.
• Manage all meeting cadences across the portfolio: prepare agendas, run sessions, write decision minutes and own action follow-up.
• Prepare management review presentations: portfolio status, risks, key decisions and launch readiness for founders and senior leadership.

Job description

Gisou is a rapidly growing beauty scale-up seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead cross-functional initiatives across product development, operations, and launches. You will own timelines, coordinate internal teams and external partners, and ensure timely delivery of complex campaigns while balancing cost and quality.

You will collaborate with founders, suppliers, and manufacturing partners to drive accountability, manage risks, and deliver successful product introductions across