In 2010, we started making sun care products to protect ourselves, our families and our friends from the damaging rays of the sun. Since then, we’ve grown and expanded into hair care and lip care products, and even launched Baby Bum, our rad new plant-based baby skin care line. Along the way, we’ve been building an amazing like-minded global community of friends that encourage us and help us be better. Today, we are looking for a few more talented and passionate people to join our crew – not for the money or the amazing location to live and work, but for the opportunity to change the world a little with us.

This position at Sun Bum will focus on developing and managing new products as well as reformulations.  The ideal candidate would have 2-5 years relevant experience in the personal care/OTC industry.  A BS in chemistry, biology, engineering or related field and experience in regulatory, quality and formulations is a plus.

• Manage portfolio of products from product formula standpoint: development, revisions, maintenance.
• Facilitate development of new product formulas with manufacturing partners
• Support product development feedback loop through cross-functional teams (marketing, sales), research, data collection, partners, consultants
• Manage testing and reporting of new and existing formulas
• Project timeline management
  • Formalize the process, concentrating on the ability to communicate action Items and deadlines in advance and real time to stake holders across multiple projects simultaneously
• Thoroughness of product briefs
• Develop comprehensive product briefs that encompass all aspects of a new product launch including SRP, gross margin expectations, marketing position, claims, testing requirements, budgeted development and testing cost, specific requirements based on channel of distribution
  • Documented sign off from leadership team
  • Management of test demographics
  • Establish power user test demographic for each product category
• Organization and control of lab samples
  • Receive, document, organize and control all samples
  • Distribute and document distribution samples with instructions for review including review return required date
  • Collate and summarize reviews for team decision process
  • Recall obsolete samples and repeat process as necessary until approved
• Timely escalation of potential major deviations from product briefs
  • Escalate and document coarse changes or deviations from the original product briefs
• Master project list
  • Maintain a rolling project list with proposed launch calendar
• Help create and manage product dossiers on secured shared drive
  • Formulas, QQ, Testing, Certificate of Analysis
• Other duties as reasonably assigned.

Got what it takes to join the Sun Bum Fam? We want to hear from you. In order to be considered for this position, please complete the following questions and submit them with your resume. Submissions without responses to the below will not be reviewed by our team.

1. Why do you want to join the Sun Bum Fam?
2. What excites you about this position?
3. Where are you located and are you will to relocate, if offered the position?

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This role is full time and includes medical benefits, vacation, sick time, paid holiday, 401k, FSA and the like.

Compensation will depend on experience.