Executive Director of Commercialization

Launched in 2015, Sol de Janeiro is a globally recognized, award-winning beauty brand, drawing inspiration from Brazil’s beauty rituals, warmth, and spirit. Sol de Janeiro delivers a sensory experience beloved by multi‑generational consumers worldwide, with clinically proven results, transformative textures, and transportive fragrances.

Headquartered in New York and launched as a digitally native brand, we have expanded globally with teams in Paris, London, and Germany. Our commitment to excellence has earned high‑profile honors, including being named one of TIME 00’s 2024 Most Influential Companies, Fast Company’s 2024 World’s Most Innovative Companies, and WWD Beauty Inc’s Power Brands of 2024, underscoring our leadership in the beauty industry and outstanding workplace.

The Executive Director, Commercialization is responsible for leading Sol de Janeiro’s global commercialization governance, launch portfolio management, and artwork execution capabilities. This role oversees the New Product Launch Project Management organization as well as the Artwork Project Management function, ensuring innovation is translated into commercially executable, compliant, and market‑ready products through a scalable and disciplined commercialization process.

This leader owns the commercialization operating model, launch governance framework, stage gate process, portfolio visibility, resource prioritization, and artwork execution strategy supporting Sol de Janeiro’s global innovation agenda. The role serves as a critical bridge between Product & Innovation, Creative, Packaging Engineering, Regulatory, Supply Chain, Procurement, Quality, and Commercial teams to ensure successful execution across an increasingly complex global launch portfolio.

The Executive Director partners closely with Supply Planning leadership to ensure effective transition from commercialization governance into operational commercialization execution while maintaining enterprise alignment across launch priorities, risks, capacity requirements, and business objectives.

This position reports into the Product & Innovation organization and plays a key leadership role in shaping Sol de Janeiro's commercialization capabilities as the business continues to scale globally.

• Own and continuously evolve Sol de Janeiro’s commercialization operating model, governance framework, and launch management methodologies.
• Establish scalable processes, decision‑making structures, and accountability mechanisms that support a growing global innovation portfolio.
• Define and maintain commercialization standards, stage gate requirements, launch readiness criteria, and portfolio governance processes.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives focused on launch effectiveness, execution speed, organizational alignment, and visibility.
• Drive organizational capability development across launch management, commercialization governance, and artwork execution disciplines.

• Own enterprise visibility and governance across the global innovation and launch portfolio.
• Lead portfolio review processes to ensure priorities, risks, resource requirements, and execution plans remain aligned with business objectives.
• Establish executive reporting and portfolio management processes that provide transparency regarding launch readiness, timing, risks, dependencies, and key decisions.
• Facilitate executive governance forums and decision‑making processes supporting innovation and commercialization activities.
• Partner with senior leadership to support prioritization decisions, resource allocation, and portfolio trade‑off discussions.

• Lead and develop a team of New Product Launch Project Managers responsible for commercialization governance and launch execution planning.
• Ensure consistent execution of launch governance processes, integrated timelines, stage gate management, and stakeholder alignment activities.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and strategic direction to the NPL organization while fostering accountability,…