If you love moving fast, building products people actually want, and seeing your work hit shelves and screens within weeks instead of months, keep reading. This skincare brand is looking for a New Product Developer who'll sit at the center of the machine: spotting opportunities, validating them with real customer signal, and turning them into products that scale through performance marketing.

This is a hands-on, high-impact role for someone who lives at the intersection of trend-spotting, briefing, and speed. You'll be the one deciding what gets built next and making sure it actually ships.

WHO THEY ARE

A fast-scaling beauty brand best known for its collagen face masks, expanding into a wider skincare range. They move at speed: spotting a trend, validating it, and getting product into customers' hands before the moment passes. Small team, big ambitions, zero patience for slow-moving product development.

This is a fully remote, full-time contractor role.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU

• Real ownership from day one: Lead new product development end to end, not just a slice of it.
• Direct founder access: Work shoulder to shoulder with someone who is still in the weeds of the business daily.
• Speed as a feature: Short, fast development cycles instead of bloated 12-month roadmaps.
• Room to shape the function: Build the NPD process as you go rather than inherit someone else's broken one.

WHAT YOU’RE GETTING INTO

• Build and maintain a pipeline of validated product opportunities based on customer insight, performance data, and category trends
• Validate product market fit early using structured, insight-led testing before committing real budget
• Work closely with formulation labs, manufacturers, and sourcing partners to gather quotes, timelines, and samples
• Collaborate with internal creative and design teams to shape packaging, visuals, and launch assets
• Own the Product Definition Doc, including use cases, cost targets, margin goals, sourcing details, timeline, and launch strategy
• Run fast, structured development sprints so nothing sits idle waiting on approvals
• Find and vet new suppliers and manufacturing partners to support speed and product diversification
• Align closely with growth, creative, and marketing so every launch is built with performance in mind from day one

WHO YOU ARE

• You have 2 to 4 years of experience in product development or operations, ideally in DTC or beauty/skincare
• You know how to brief a sourcing team properly: clear specs, realistic costs, no back-and-forth
• You understand formulation basics well enough to have a real conversation with sourcing and manufacturers (cosmetics/skincare experience is a strong plus)
• You're commercially sharp: you know what sells in beauty right now and how to get it to market fast
• You're organised and resourceful, and you keep projects moving with minimal oversight
• You communicate clearly and thrive in a lean, fast-moving team
• You're comfortable with ambiguity and speed over long approval chains

Bonus if you've:

• Worked in skincare, beauty, or a performance marketing-driven DTC brand