Director of Innovation and Product Marketing

About Bobbie

Bobbie is creating a parenting culture of confidence, not comparison. And it starts with how we choose to feed our babies. We crafted our European style infant formula with purposefully sourced, organic ingredients to give parents a product they are proud to feed their babies, direct to their doorstep. Bobbie is proud to be the only US formula that is designed to meet both FDA and EU standards. 

Although 83% of parents turn to formula in the first year of their baby’s life, this is the silent majority that is often shamed for not being able to exclusively breastfeed. Co-founded by two moms and created by a team of mom scientists, nutritionists, pediatricians, and lactation consultants, the Bobbie team knows first hand that there is no one size fits all for feeding. With Bobbie, we hope you can Bottle Boldly.

The Role

As the Director of Innovation and Product Marketing, you will be responsible for driving revenue growth by shaping the product vision, defining product positioning, for new and existing products. This role identifies market opportunities that align with Bobbie’s brand, partners cross functionally to drive to successful  product launches, and ensures alignment between product development (R&D), Brand, Commercial, and Operations teams to maximize adoption and ROI. 

What you will accomplish: 

Lead Innovation & Renovation Strategy

• Innovation Roadmap: Drive the ideation and design of new products, features, or business models by analyzing market trends and customer insights to guide the product roadmap
• Product Evolution: Analyze market trends, consumer insights, and competitive data to identify opportunities to renovate, refresh, or reposition existing product lines
• Portfolio Management: Manage the product life cycle from concept to launch, ensuring that product enhancements are strategic and profitable and fit well within the existing portfolio of Bobbie’s products
• Bobbie Labs: Help establish, and build equity for Bobbie Labs as a center of excellence and validation for nutrition. Owning strategic marketing and co-leading positioning, output and partnerships alongside R&D 
• Business Cases: Develop product briefs, including financial models, ROI analyses, and business cases for new innovations and renovation projects within the Stage Gate process
• Concept Validation: Lead product research, including "voice of the customer" studies and prototyping, to validate new concepts

Product Messaging & Marketing

• Strategic Positioning: Formulate comprehensive product points of difference, claims, and positioning strategies to differentiate products in the market
• Narrative Ownership: Own the brief guiding the creation and integration of compelling product messaging, naming, and positioning to maximize market appeal in collaboration with Brand and Commercial teams.
• Value Proposition: Define the core value drivers and differentiators for the product portfolio.
• Sales Enablement: Support the development of sales materials, case studies, and presentations to enable the Commercial teams to effectively communicate the product's value. 

Team Leadership, Collaboration & Performance

• Cross-Functional Leadership: Lead cross-functional teams, including R&D, Brand, Commercial, Operations, and Customer Experience teams to ensure seamless execution of product strategy
• Mentorship: Build, manage, mentor, and lead high-performing project teams
• Executive Liaison: Act as the primary liaison between Product and executive leadership, presenting innovation/renovation strategies and performance metrics
• Champion Product Partnerships: Cultivate & own relationships with external product partners to ensure efficient and effective progress towards shared KPIs
• Performance Metrics: Define KPIs for product innovation/renovation, performance, adoption rates, and revenue impact.

What we would like you to have: 

• 8-10+ years of experience in product mark