Lead Product Scientist

Overview

Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly‑Clark Professional. At Kimberly‑Clark, it’s all here for you—innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact. You were made to create Better Care for a Better World: exploring uncharted questions, engineering innovative solutions, advancing scientific understanding, and constantly pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

You want to be part of a performance culture dedicated to solving real‑world problems with purpose and precision. You want to work in an environment that promotes sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development. In this role, you’ll help us shape the future and improve lives for billions of people around the world.

In one of our R&D roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center. Job responsibilities include:

• Lead product development experiments to improve and define the future diaper specification in order to develop winning product propositions and substantiate claims.
• Support the development and lead portions of the consumer learning plan in conjunction with Marketing Research and Innovation Testing teams.
• Facilitate discussions with marketing and legal and complete experiments and documentation to support claims substantiation.
• Incumbent’s primary audience will include R&D team members from product, process and material disciplines at their same level or the level above and below as well as study and design managers.
• Incumbent will regularly influence the decisions and direction provided by the Product lead, the Product Technical leader and the R&D Manager.
• Incumbent may influence the brand innovation plans and claims substantiation plans through R&E leads listed above, the R&D director, Brand Team members and Legal team members through core team meetings and at key milestones in the learning plan.

To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college/university.
• 3 years or more of experience in product development, technology development, executing consumer, and/or technical / scientific studies.
• Strong communication skills.
• Demonstrated strengths in scientific experimentation methods, analysis and planning/organizing, reading and comprehension of technical literature (and summarizing).
• 15 – 30% travel is required.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Science.
• Prefer 5 years or more of relevant experience.
• Significant work experience in a Research & Development organization.
• Experience in executing both consumer studies and product performance evaluation.
• Experiences and skills in influencing peers and leaders.
• Experience in the development and commercialization stages of product or technology development.
• Experience in various market research methodologies and test methods.
• Understanding of Baby and Child Care products, brands, business and technologies.

We believe that our employees are our greatest asset, and we're committed to providing them with the resources they need to be successful. If you're looking for a rewarding career with a company that cares about its employees, then Kimberly‑Clark is the place for you. The following is a brief overview of some benefits you’d enjoy working in this role. For a complete overview, see

Flex That Works at Kimberly‑Clark:
We believe great work happens when people come together with purpose. That’s why we offer a flexible work model that blends remote work with intentional in‑person collaboration—helping you connect, grow, and innovate while maintaining the balance you value.

Salary Range: 87,260 – 107,780 USD. The position offers eligibility for a target bonus and a comprehensive benefits suite, including our 401(k) and Profit Sharing plan. The anticipated base pay range is provided above for a fully qualified hire. Actual pay will depend on several factors, such as location, role, skills, performance, and experience. Please note that the stated pay range applies to US locations…