Manager Product Development: Sol de Janeiro

parfumsworldwide; New York (NY); Sur place; USD 100 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Competitive salary and bonus

Flexible hybrid work environment

Global growth opportunities

Résumé du poste

Sol de Janeiro is hiring a Manager, Product Development (Formulation) for its New York Metropolitan team. The manager leads formula creation, optimization, and commercialization from concept through production for beauty products including fragrance, with responsibility for safety, stability, manufacturability, quality, cost, and consumer experience.

The position requires five or more years in beauty product development or formulation, and a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering,

Qualifications

• Five+ years of product-development or formulation experience in beauty or related field.

Responsabilités

• Lead formula creation, optimization, and reformulation from concept through production.

Connaissances

Product development

Formulation

Cross-functional

Regulatory knowledge

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering or Cosmetic Science or Biology

Description du poste

Start Date09/08/2026

110000 Full-Time

Sol de Janeiro is hiring a Manager, Product Development (Formulation) for its New York Metropolitan team. The manager leads formula creation, optimization, and commercialization from concept through production for beauty products that include fragrance and related consumer categories. The work covers safety, stability, manufacturability, quality, cost, and consumer experience.

The position requires at least five years of product-development or formulation experience in beauty, personal care, skincare, haircare, body care, fragrance, or a related consumer-products field. A bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Cosmetic Science, Biology, or a related field is required. Sol de Janeiro operates from New York with teams in Paris, London, and Germany, and the manager works with contract manufacturers, ingredient suppliers, and several internal departments.

• Role: Manager, Product Development (Formulation)


• Location: New York Metropolitan


• Pay: $100,000 to $120,000 USD


• Workplace: Hybrid, with three in-office days each week


• Experience: Five or more years in beauty product development or formulation

Formula Creation And Commercialization

The manager leads formula creation, optimization, and reformulation from the first concept through production. Each formula receives review for performance, stability, safety, manufacturability, quality, cost, and consumer experience before the product advances.

Formula specifications stay aligned across product development, manufacturing, and quality work. The manager captures technical data, identifies ingredients and technologies, and improves formulation approaches as a project moves toward commercialization.

Suppliers And Cross-Functional Product Work

Contract manufacturers and ingredient suppliers participate in development, scale-up, and production decisions. The manager leads those technical relationships, defines formula specifications, records supplier information, and manages risks that could affect a product's progress.

Cross-functional projects connect Product Development with Marketing, Packaging, Procurement, Regulatory, Operations, and Quality. The work also involves external manufacturers and suppliers. New York product-development teams can therefore include fragrance professionals , packaging specialists, regulatory staff, and operations partners around the same launch.

• External partners: contract manufacturers and ingredient suppliers


• Internal partners: Marketing, Packaging, Procurement, Regulatory, Operations, and Quality


• Project work: formula specifications, technical records, milestones, costs, and risks

Regulatory Knowledge And Technical Records

The manager needs cosmetic regulatory and compliance knowledge alongside formulation experience. Technical records cover formula specifications, product data, manufacturing information, and the evidence used to assess product performance and safety.

The IFRA Standards library organizes scientifically developed fragrance-ingredient records as restrictions, specifications, prohibitions, and amendments. Those records give fragrance teams a structured source for checking the conditions attached to particular ingredients.

United States cosmetic labeling adds another technical checkpoint. The FDA labeling guide states that ingredients generally appear in descending order of predominance, while fragrance and trade-secret ingredients have specific exceptions. A formulation manager must keep regulatory, packaging, and technical information aligned before production.

Hybrid Work And Product Milestones

Sol de Janeiro's formulation manager works in the office three days each week and travels when project work requires it. The schedule combines technical review, supplier communication, cross-functional meetings, and decisions tied to development milestones.

Success measures include technical documentation, supplier records, formula-development milestones, on-time innovation and reformulation projects, formula cost targets, ingredient partnerships, and technical-risk management. In New York, New York formulation roles can connect laboratory decisions with packaging, operations, quality, and market work.

Sol de Janeiro launched in 2015 and built its brand around Brazilian beauty rituals, warmth, and spirit. The company operates from a New York headquarters with teams in Paris, London, and Germany, so product-development decisions move through an international organization.

• competitive salary and bonus program for full-time team members


• flexible hybrid work environment


• global growth opportunities

Sol de Janeiro also states that its workplace does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

The manager's technical judgment reaches beyond a single formula. Supplier records, manufacturing constraints, product claims, packaging information, and quality decisions must remain connected as a product advances toward production.

The New York team therefore combines formulation depth with project leadership. A successful manager keeps technical milestones, cost targets, supplier work, and cross-functional decisions moving together while maintaining the product experience that defines the finished beauty product.