Product Development Director

Product Development Director

The Company:

DIME Beauty's mission is to create luxurious skincare and beauty products that are clean, effective, and affordable. It is DIME's goal that customers will feel confident in who they are and embrace their skin in all its unique and beautiful stages.

The Product Development Director supports and operationalizes the product strategy and long‑term innovation roadmap defined by the Chief Brand Officer. While the CBO owns the overall product vision, category direction, and multi‑year roadmap, the PD Director translates this vision into an executable development strategy—leading formula direction, technical feasibility, supplier partnerships, claims strategy, and the cross‑functional execution required to deliver best‑in‑class products.

• Build and maintain a 24–36 month product pipeline aligned to brand strategy, financial targets, and whitespace opportunity.
• Translate brand DNA and audience insights into product concepts and innovation opportunities.
• Partner with CBO to define hero strategy, portfolio architecture, and category expansion.
• Conduct competitive deep dives, trend analysis, and ingredient innovation scouting.

• Drive formula direction with contract manufacturers, ensuring alignment with brand standards, performance requirements, and the product vision set by executive leadership.
• Partner with Brand teams to shape claims strategy, testing roadmaps, and substantiation plans that support brand positioning and long‑term innovation goals.
• Evaluate and guide all sample rounds, including texture, finish, absorption, fragrance accords, aroma intensity, dry‑down, longevity, and overall sensorial profile. Provide technical and strategic recommendations to external development partners (ex: labs, chemists, contract manufacturers) for iteration.
• Lead cross‑functional reviews of formula progression and sensorial direction; provide expertise to inform decisions while escalating key milestones and final approvals to the Chief Brand Officer, CEO, and Founders for alignment with brand vision and commercial objectives.
• Ensure all formulas meet required benchmarks for efficacy, stability, safety, compliance, ingredient philosophy, and competitive differentiation.

• Build and maintain relationships with CMOs, fragrance houses, packaging partners, and raw material suppliers.
• Negotiate costings, lead times, MOQs, and exclusivity opportunities.
• Implement vendor score carding and performance reviews.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with contract manufacturers (CMOs), fragrance houses, packaging partners, and raw material suppliers across skincare, body care, and fragrance to support DIME’s product innovation goals.
• Lead technical and strategic discussions with vendors including formulation advancement, ingredient innovation, packaging feasibility, sustainability options, “clean” formulation requirements, and category‑specific performance needs.
• Negotiate costings, MOQs, lead times, testing requirements, and exclusivity opportunities in partnership with executive leadership team, ensuring alignment with brand objectives and target margins.
• Develop vendor score carding, performance tracking, and capability assessments to ensure partners consistently meet quality, innovation, compliance, and responsiveness standards.
• Partner closely with Supply Chain/Operations to align on forecasts, capacity planning, production schedules, and operational constraints while maintaining ownership of technical feasibility, formula direction, and supplier innovation opportunities.
• Collaborate with Operations on final contract terms, production pricing, and supply continuity while retaining PD oversight of formula integrity, fragrance briefs, raw material specification control, and packaging technical validation.
• Identify potential new vendor partners, fragrance houses, raw material innovations, and packaging technologies to support long‑term product pipeline development and elevate brand competitiveness.

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