Director, Innovation – Commercialization Operations

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $145k - $180k / year

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⚙️ Operations

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Athletic Greens

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2010

🏥 Healthcare

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🧘 Wellness

Healthcare • Food & Beverage • Wellness

Athletic Greens is a nutritional supplement company that produces AG1, a daily supplement aimed to support physical and mental health. AG1 combines over 70 ingredients into a convenient drink with the promise of delivering daily nutrition and replacing multiple individual supplements. It is formulated with multivitamins, multiminerals, gut-friendly bacteria, antioxidants, and whole-food-sourced nutrients, designed to aid digestion, enhance energy, support immune defense, and improve mood and mental focus. With a commitment to quality and research, the company ensures their product is safe, effective, and held to high standards, being certified by the Cologne List®. Founded in 2010, they continue to improve their formula based on scientific research and customer feedback. AG1 boasts numerous positive reviews for its taste and convenience in integrating foundational nutrition into daily routines.

📋 Description

• Design, operate, and evolve the Stage Gate governance framework, including gate criteria, required evidence, decision rights, and escalation pathways • Lead gate reviews focused on decisions and readiness; document approvals, conditions, owners, and formal closure • Maintain gate decision records and follow conditional approvals through closure • Develop standards for decisions locked at each gate and controls for material changes after approval • Apply proportionate gate requirements based on risk and complexity • Identify decisions requiring executive intervention, frame options and trade-offs, and recommend paths forward • Integrate NPD plans across Product Development, Packaging, Procurement, Supply Chain, Quality, Regulatory, Finance, Marketing, Retail, DTC, and International • Establish critical-path plans, functional lead times, dependencies, handoffs, launch baselines, and forecasts • Provide visibility into project status, timing, risks, resource demands, and launch-readiness decisions • Coordinate commercialization requirements across formulas, claims, packaging, artwork, labels, sourcing, master data, production, and channel launches • Define readiness expectations for manufacturing, inventory, retailer execution, and DTC launch • Surface timing, cost, and execution impacts of late changes • Operationalize Stage Gate redesign changes across active launches • Simplify or eliminate duplicative and legacy requirements while protecting critical controls • Create a reliable system of record for decisions, approved versions, deliverables, owners, milestones, and changes • Establish a framework for retailer-specific requests and exceptions • Define process-effectiveness measures, train teams, and drive adoption

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years in CPG new product development, innovation operations, commercialization, or related cross-functional leadership, ideally including food, beverages, or nutritional products • Demonstrated experience owning or materially redesigning a formal Stage Gate or comparable NPD governance framework • Experience launching physical consumer products and understanding formulation, regulatory/quality, packaging, supply chain, manufacturing, and commercial interdependencies • Strong judgment in setting governance standards while avoiding unnecessary bureaucracy • Experience leading decision forums and navigating cross-functional trade-offs • Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders without direct authority, implement change, and turn complex workflows into practical operating routines • Excellent integrated planning, risk management, facilitation, and executive communication skills • Experience facilitating executive gate decisions, setting and tracking conditions of approval, and leading pragmatic change control • Experience spanning mature CPG processes and high-growth, entrepreneurial environments • Experience with beverage or supplement categories and retail, DTC, Amazon, or international launches • PMP certification or equivalent formal training in project or program management methodologies • Familiarity with PLM, NPD portfolio tools, and process excellence methodologies

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation and performance-based incentive plans • A 100% remote working environment (excluding Laboratory positions) • Paid holidays • Company-wide reset and reflect days • Unlimited PTO (based on your country of residence) • In-person team meetups for optimal collaboration, team building and accelerating productivity • Access to AG1 products and branded swag • Monthly telecom stipend to offset some of the costs of home internet/wifi for eligible team members • All other benefits and insurances as required by law, based on your specific country of residence • Stock option allocation for eligible roles

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