We’re Public Goods, a direct-to-consumer, e-commerce company with a simple belief: That safe, healthy, and sustainable products should be accessible to all. Our mission is to become the trusted one-stop shop for all sustainable household essentials. We want to deliver wellness and peace of mind in an industry that is often exclusive and top-down.
Sustainability is a huge deal for us. Our environmental initiatives run deep and go beyond our successful tree-planting program. We donate to food banks, partner with leaders in the fight against deforestation and hunger, design products with smaller carbon footprints, and carbon offset 100% of orders.
As the Product Development Manager - Food you will be accountable for leading the food category for Public Goods. This includes developing, launching, and bringing new products to market; developing strategic growth plans for the food product categories; and maintaining sustainability brand standards across product, packaging and positioning to support overall customer engagement. This is a highly cross-functional role where you will be working closely with key functions including operations, quality assurance, marketing, creative, sales and finance to bring products from ideation to market.
What You’ll Do:
- Responsible for product development and ‘go-to-market’ management for all food product categories including new product categories and existing category line extensions.
- Oversee the end-to-end cross-functional product development process ensuring alignment across all departing including operations, finance, quality assurance, marketing, creative, sales and finance.
- Utilizing internal and external data resources determine product assortment strategy plan and identify potential new categories, products and line extensions.
- Identify and onboard qualified co-manufacturing partners for new products and alternative sources of supply for existing products. Establish and maintain vendor relationships.
- Responsible for vendor negotiations including costing, terms and timelines.
- Create new ‘go to market concept decks’ for each product - what, why, market overview, sourcing information, sustainability, pricing SRP analysis to gain senior leadership buy-in and cross-functional team alignment.
- Partner with sales, marketing and customer service to conduct market and consumer research for on-going product market fit and recommend changes to ensure brand alignment.
- Coordinate with marketing and creative partners on label development for new products and packaging updates.
Who you are:
- 3-5 years of experience in the food product
- Development and/or sourcing in the food industry
- Existing relationships with food co-manufacturers
- Knowledgeable about grocery supply chains, private label, and manufacturing
- Good pulse on the market, able to translate brand strategy and market trends into product
- Ability to manage multiple, complex projects at the same time
- Hyper organized, detail-oriented, and independent
- Collaborative and comfortable in a hectic team-oriented startup environment
- Strong communicator and negotiator
- Experience working with overseas suppliers a plus
- Experience with sustainable packaging and or ethical labor practices a plus
What we offer:
- Competitive compensation package: salary + equity.
- 100% covered Medical/Dental/Vision/telemedicine services for employees
- Public Goods lifetime membership and monthly credits to both Public Goods and a monthly stipend for books of your choice!