Vice President, Product, ESG, Regulatory

Our Story

Launched in 2015, Sol de Janeiro is a globally recognized, award-winning beauty brand, drawing inspiration from Brazil’s beauty rituals, warmth, and spirit. Sol de Janeiro delivers a sensory experience beloved by multi-generational consumers worldwide, with clinically proven results, transformative textures, and transportive fragrances.  

Headquartered in New York and launched as a digitally native brand, we have expanded globally with teams in Paris, London, and Germany. Our commitment to excellence has earned high-profile honors, including being named one of TIME100’s 2024 Most Influential Companies, Fast Company’s 2024 World's Most Innovative Companies, and WWD Beauty Inc’s Power Brands of 2024, underscoring its leadership in the beauty industry and outstanding workplace. These accolades highlight our dedication to being a leading brand in the beauty industry and an exceptional workplace. 

What You’ll Do

As the Vice President, Product, ESG & Regulatory, you will lead the strategy, development, and execution of Sol de Janeiro’s global product innovation roadmap, ensuring every formula reflects our performance standards, sensorial excellence, and sustainability values. You will oversee end-to-end product creation with external labs and manufacturing partners, embed ESG principles and impact transparency across the product lifecycle, and guide our global regulatory approach to support compliant, scalable growth. You’ll partner cross-functionally to accelerate innovation, enhance technical capabilities, and shape the future of our product portfolio with a balance of creativity, scientific rigor, and responsible beauty leadership.

What You’ll Be Working On

R&D Responsibilities: 

• Lead end-to-end product development through external labs and manufacturing partners, from concept to commercialization bringing formulations that meet our Brand performance, client experience, and ethical, “clean” and sustainable goals 

• Develop superior & competitive products with strong pipeline and innovating on-trend formats and ingredients. 

• Drive organizational knowledge of ingredient and performance innovation that reflect our business vision to have highly effective products with the best and most sensorial client experience in the market.  

• Maintain awareness of new technologies and developments both independently and with L’Occitane Groupe R&D 

• Build and establish relationships with appropriate contacts within existing and new contract manufacturers’ labs, raw material suppliers, and 3rd party testing facilities to drive formulation and company goals. 

• Directly oversee all technical aspects of formulation integrity including stability, fragrance compatibility, safety, efficacy, claims support, and documentation. 

• Build robust R&D processes and partnerships that support long-term capacity, quality, and speed-to-market goals. 

• Manage formulation COGS and proactively drive cost optimization through process & ingredient optimization without compromising product quality or consumer experience 

• Develop and manage annual R&D budgets: development, testing, regulatory, and claims activity.  

• Travel or delegate travel when it serves organizational or formulation goals 

• Recruit, develop, train, mentor, and retain a growing technical team while fostering a high-performance, collaborative culture. 

• Set standards with Product Innovation and Customer Experience and advise on technical inquiries ensuring legally compliant responses  

• Own risk assessment regarding possible legal actions, manage actions if they arise 

 

• Sustainability Responsibilities: