Associate Director, Engineering

Join our Engineering team at Helen of Troy and make an immediate impact on our trusted brands: OXO, Hydro Flask, Osprey, Honeywell, PUR, Braun, Vicks, Hot Tools, Drybar, Curlsmith, and Revlon. Together, we build innovative and useful products that elevate people's lives everywhere every day.

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Position: Associate Director, Engineering

Department: Engineering – Advanced Technology, Beauty and Wellness

Work Location: Marlborough, MA, Hybrid (work 3 days onsite)

Hybrid Schedule: Helen of Troy associates enjoy the advantages and flexibility of a hybrid working model, allowing for in office 3 days minimum, and remote 2 days. Any changes to this working model would be communicated accordingly.

What you will be doing:

Proven innovator to help lead the development and evaluation of new technology and business opportunities across all our Beauty and Wellness brands. Would work closely with our business and marketing partners to understand consumer needs, then identify potential technologies or partners to bring those new features to life.

Looking for creative thinking and ability to see how technologies can be embraced and demonstrated as well as an ability to distill sophisticated technical work into easily understandable information that can be used by our business partners. Has the potential to lead Advanced technology for the Beauty and Wellness business in the 4–5-year time frame.

• Work alongside Marketing partners to help understand consumer pain points and think creatively on solutions to address

• Lead technology searches and the evaluation of potential solutions

• Help the team build compelling prototypes and test methods to validate efficiency or reason to believe in the innovated solution or approach

• Work with the Intellectual Property team to understand both Freedom to Practice as well as new potential I.P. for the given approach

• Develop budget and timing estimates as well as timely updates on program progress

• Advanced Technology leadership for Beauty and Wellness (B&W) (4–5-year time frame):

• Leading all B&W technology activities

• Helping to set roadmap for B&W

• Leading and managing a group that will include scientists, engineers and technicians

• Managing all laboratory equipment – maintenance, training, operation, and justifying new equipment

• Establishing and maintaining best practices for the group and the laboratory

Skills needed to be successful in this role:

• Confirmed innovator demonstrating outstanding ability to see connections and build new opportunities leveraging a science-based approach

• Good communicator showing the skills to distill sophisticated problems and opportunities, so they can be communicated to team leadership

• Confirmed lab skills able to generate compelling data sets by crafting new validated methods to quantify performance or demonstrate goals

• Flexible and ability to prioritize and communicate progress or where more time or money is needed to move forward.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

• Experience in consumer product development environment

• 10+ years new technology and product development experience

• Strong analytical, product innovation experience

• Authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis

Preferred Qualifications:

• PhD

• Evidence of innovation as patents or published papers

Benefits: Salary + Bonus, Healthcare, Dental, Vision, Paid Holidays, Paid Parental Leave, 401(k) with company match, Basic Life Insurance, Short Term Disability (STD), Long Term Disability (LTD), Paid Time Off (PTO), Paid Charitable (volunteer) Leave, and Educational Assistance.

Wondering if you should apply? Helen of Troy welcomes people as diverse as our brands! Have the confidence to come as who you are because your point of view, skills, and experience will make us stronger. If you're eager to share new ideas and try new things, we want to hear from you.

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