Director, Product Development – Commercialization

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👔 Director

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Shameless Foods

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2022

🍽️ Food & Beverage

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

Food & Beverage • B2C • eCommerce

Shameless Foods is a consumer food brand that makes gummy candies and snacks formulated to have less carbs, sugar, and calories than regular candy while preserving the taste and nostalgic experience of traditional sweets. The company emphasizes taste parity through iterative testing and sells directly to consumers with a 30-day satisfaction guarantee on orders. It positions itself as a lower‑calorie, lower‑sugar alternative in the candy/snack market.

📋 Description

• Own the commercialization timeline for every product from approved brief to first production run, including go/no-go decisions at each step • Evaluate feasibility and cost for every brief before approval • Own formulation across confectionery platforms and maintain Shameless-owned formulas in writing • Make benchtop samples hands-on and deliver them to Brand 3–4 weeks before flavor lock • Own regulatory and label data, including nutrition panels, sugar grams, allergens, and claims substantiation • Define technical specifications and acceptance criteria for sensory, texture, shelf life, and stability • Develop structural packaging specifications with Brand • Qualify suppliers and co-manufacturers through technical-fit reviews, trials, and site audits; recommend manufacturing assignments • Lead pilot runs, stability, scale-up, and first commercial runs, delivering released specs, BOMs, and test plans to Quality and Procurement • Drive post-launch sensory consistency, cost-down, and reformulation based on market feedback and quality signals • Provide Brand, Quality, Procurement, Operations, FP&A, Retail, and executives with product specifications, cost inputs, lead times, and manufacturing recommendations • Ensure the co-manufacturer transition is completed, every active SKU has a written formula and spec, acceptance criteria are documented, launches ship on time, landed COGS improves, and projects are tracked in the pipeline system

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years in confectionery or adjacent food product development, still hands-on at the bench, with formulation depth in gummies (pectin and starch), and depth in at least two of: aerated, panned/crunchy, licorice, sugar-reduced systems (allulose, erythritol, fiber) • Has taken products from bench through pilot to first commercial run, and has transferred a formula between plants • Has qualified and managed co-manufacturers without owning the plant, including site audits and holding a CM to spec • Has written acceptance criteria and run a technical sensory gate; fluent in CoAs, moisture activity, stability and shelf-life • Builds a BOM cost and knows yield and MOQ math • Ownership — you hold the timeline and the go/no-go; when a launch slips for product readiness, that is yours • Resourcefulness — there is no in-house lab or pilot plant; trials run at supplier and co-manufacturer facilities, and you make that work • Documentation discipline — formulas, specs and supplier history live in the system, not in your head • Speed with rigor — comfortable being the whole function in a company that moves weekly, without lowering the technical bar • Clear communication — you translate between Brand’s consumer language and a co-manufacturer’s process language, in both directions

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid Time Off • Work From Home • Training & Development

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