Senior Product Manager, Product Development

🕒 August 21

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $90k - $110k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

✅ Product Manager

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Ancient Nutrition

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51 - 200 employees

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

🧘 Wellness

💰 $103M Private Equity Round - Ancient Nutrition on 2018-03

B2C • eCommerce • Wellness

Ancient Nutrition is a direct-to-consumer nutritional supplement brand that offers a wide range of consumer products — including collagen peptides, multi-collagen proteins, sports nutrition, active peptides, organic supergreens, probiotics, vitamins, and herbal blends. The company emphasizes superfood ingredients, fermentation and ancient preparation techniques combined with clinically backed ingredients, a subscription e-commerce model, regenerative organic farming practices, and social/environmental commitments (including B-Corp certification and regenerative farming programs).

📋 Description

• Execute or support assigned product development and formulation projects across innovation, renovation, reformulation, line extension, and product optimization • Develop, refine, and troubleshoot formulas across powders, capsules, tablets, gummies, stick packs, gels/liquids, functional beverages, and emerging formats • Evaluate ingredient functionality, dosage strategy, taste, texture, stability, sensory experience, manufacturing feasibility, regulatory considerations, cost, and consumer expectations • Partner with suppliers, flavor houses, co-manufacturers, and internal teams to develop samples, evaluate prototypes, refine formulas, and resolve technical issues • Execute assigned work through intake, prioritization, dashboard, and project visibility processes • Provide timely updates on work, risks, decisions, resource needs, blockers, and milestones • Support renovation, reformulation, ingredient substitution, alternate sourcing, flavor optimization, sensory troubleshooting, and product performance improvements • Support projects from concept refinement through formulation, sampling, documentation, packaging, commercialization readiness, and handoff to Supply Chain • Align formula, label, claims, documentation, costing, packaging, manufacturing feasibility, and production-readiness requirements • Participate in sample reviews, flavor panels, technical evaluations, formula revisions, and commercialization discussions • Maintain accurate technical documentation, formula revisions, sample feedback, technical decisions, and project rationale • Provide technical inputs for ingredient rationale, raw material decisions, supplier inputs, claims support, label review, change control, SFPs, CVC claims, bills of materials, and finished-good specifications • Provide technical formulation support for innovation and R&D initiatives • Translate scientific concepts, novel ingredients, and technical hypotheses into feasible formulas, samples, development plans, and commercialization pathways • Support Education, Brand, Sales, Marketing, and Product teams with formulation and technical product development inputs • Translate technical information into internal explanations for product understanding, launch education, sales training, and product storytelling • Serve as a subject-matter expert in presentations explaining ingredient selection, formula design, product format, flavor strategy, differentiation, and technical rationale • Report to the VP of Product and Education and partner closely with Product Development and R&D teammates

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in product development, formulation, R&D, food science, dietary supplements, nutrition, wellness, CPG, or a related field • Hands-on formulation experience strongly preferred in dietary supplements, functional foods, powders, capsules, tablets, gummies, stick packs, gels/liquids, beverages, or other regulated consumer product formats • Demonstrated ability to move products from concept through formulation, sampling, refinement, troubleshooting, and commercialization support • Strong understanding of ingredient functionality, dosage strategy, flavor, texture, sensory evaluation, cost, manufacturing constraints, regulatory considerations, and launch readiness • Experience working with suppliers, flavor houses, co-manufacturers, Quality, Regulatory, Supply Chain, Product Documentation, Marketing, Sales, and Education teams • Strong ability to execute active Product Development work and support early-stage innovation • Strong technical problem-solving skills involving formulation, raw material, sensory, supplier, and commercialization issues • Ability to manage multiple assigned projects, communicate status clearly, and follow through on deliverables • Strong documentation habits and ability to provide accurate technical inputs for formula records, ingredient rationale, sample feedback, claims support, label review, and commercialization handoffs • Ability to translate technical and scientific information into clear, commercially useful language • Strong communication and a team-first mindset, with flexibility to support cross-functional requests, shifting priorities, and broader Product Development team needs • Experience with SpecRight, TraceGains, Unifize, Asana, Smartsheet, or similar platforms preferred • Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Nutrition, Biology, Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, or related field required • Approximately 10–15% travel availability

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive health, dental, vision, and life insurance • Disability and supplemental insurance options • Unlimited PTO for salaried employees • Paid maternity and paternity leave • Complimentary Ancient Nutrition products • Wellness-oriented, values-based work culture • Fully remote work arrangement • Approximately 10–15% travel, including visits to contract manufacturers, suppliers, industry events, and company meetings