Director, Product Development

<p></p> <h1>Director, Product Development</h1> <p><strong>Location:</strong>&nbsp;New York, NY (Hybrid, 4x Week In-Office)<br><strong>Reporting to:</strong> VP Product Development<br><strong>Department:</strong> Product Development&nbsp;<br><strong>Salary:</strong> $105,000 - $150,000</p> <p></p> <h3></h3> <h1>About Bubble</h1> <p>Bubble is on a mission to democratize clinical prestige skincare: dermatologist-developed, vegan formulas that are clinically serious and genuinely accessible, now stocked in roughly 18,000 doors across Target, Walmart, Ulta, and CVS. We want a Director of Product Development who turns a brief into a finished product on shelf: fast, on margin, and good enough that it earns its place in the routine and stays there.</p> <h1>The Role</h1> <p>You own new product development from first concept to retail launch across core, treatment, OTC, and the adjacent categories we're building into next. You drive formulation, packaging, testing, scale-up, and commercialization, and you keep the existing portfolio compliant, current, and selling. This is a builder's seat. You redirect a formula on paper, hold a lab to its timeline, and move a dozen projects at once without losing the detail that makes a Bubble product feel like a Bubble product. You are the connective tissue between Marketing, R&amp;D, Regulatory, Operations, Supply Chain, and every manufacturing partner we work with.</p> <h1>What You'll Do</h1> <p>New product development</p> <ul> <li> <p>Own every phase of NPD from concept to launch across core, treatment, OTC, and new adjacent categories. You write the brief, set the timeline, and make the call on what ships.</p> </li> <li> <p>Drive the labs instead of waiting on them. Set direction, run formulation reviews, and hold external partners to the schedule and the standard.</p> </li> <li> <p>Find what’s next in consumer insight, derm feedback, social listening, competitive teardowns, and emerging ingredient science.</p> </li> <li> <p>Build the technical story behind every launch: proprietary blends, substantiated actives, and defensible IP.</p> </li> <li> <p>Run the full testing slate across stability, compatibility, specifications, safety, and clinical and consumer efficacy.</p> </li> <li> <p>Solve the hard problems when stability, compatibility, or scale-up breaks. You lead the taskforce, find root cause, and ship the fix.</p> </li> <li> <p>Keep every formula compliant and on-standard by reviewing ingredient lists, holding the line on Bubble’s vegan formulation standards, and partnering tightly with Regulatory and Quality.</p> </li> &