Senior Hair & Scalp Personal Care Formulation Scientist

Nutrafol; Trumbull (CT); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work experience

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vis

401K with employer match

Quarterly Bonus Program

Flexible PTO

Wellness stipends

Free monthly Nutrafol subscription

Job summary

You will partner with Product Development, Clinical, QA/RA, Supply Chain, and Marketing to ensure performance, stability, and regulatory compliance while advancing Nutrafol’s innovative portfolio and sustainability goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's and/or Master's in cosmetic science, chemistry, biology, chemical engineering, or a related field.
• 3–5 years hands-on cosmetic or personal care formulation experience.
• Formulates across multiple formats: shampoos, cleansers, emulsions, serums, sprays.
• Experience with prestige or premium personal care products, and clean beauty ingredients.

Responsibilities

• Design, benchmark, and optimize proprietary formulations for scalp and hair across leave-on formats and rinse-off formats.
• Select optimal ingredient systems to deliver target consumer experience, sensory profile, and scalp/hair health benefits.
• Translate briefs into formulation strategies with prototypes, benchmarking, and rationale for ingredient selection.
• Troubleshoot stability, compatibility, rheology, preservation, fragrance, and sensory performance.
• Partner with contract manufacturers to scale up and preserve formulation intent across the product lifecycle.

Skills

Formulation design

Preclinical testing knowledge

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's and/or Master's in cosmetic science or related

Job description

You will partner with Product Development, Clinical, QA/RA, Supply Chain, and Marketing to ensure performance, stability, and regulatory compliance while advancing Nutrafol’s innovative portfolio and sustainability goals.