Senior Product Manager

Salary Range:

$90,000.00 To $110,000.00 Annually

Job Title:

Sr. Manager of Product Development

Location:

Remote

Status:

Full Time

Reports to:

VP of Product and Education

At Ancient Nutrition, our mission is to harness history’s most powerful superfoods and deliver them in ways that seamlessly fit modern lifestyles. But our purpose goes far beyond creating supplements—we’re deeply committed to the health of our planet and the people who live on it.

As pioneers of the regenerative agriculture movement, we’re transforming how food is grown and how wellness products are made. Through partnerships with leaders like Regenerative Organic Certified®, groundbreaking collaborations with the Rodale Institute, and recognition as a certified B Corporation®, we’re building a future where environmental sustainability and nutritional integrity go hand in hand.

We believe in a world where supplements are made with purpose, powered by ingredients grown in harmony with nature. Together, we’re cultivating healthier people and a healthier planet—and ultimately, we’re working to save the world with superfoods.

What You’ll Be Doing

The Senior Manager of Product Development is a hands-on technical role responsible for formulation, sample development, ingredient feasibility, troubleshooting, product optimization, and commercialization readiness.

This person will advance product development projects across innovation, renovation, reformulation, line extensions, and product optimization. The role requires senior-level technical expertise, strong execution, accurate documentation, and cross-functional follow-through.

The Senior Manager will partner closely with Product Development and R&D leadership to translate scientific concepts, consumer needs, ingredient rationale, and brand standards into feasible formulas, samples, development plans, and commercially viable products.

Key Responsibilities

Product Development and Formulation

• Develop, refine, and troubleshoot formulas across innovation, renovation, reformulation, line extension, and optimization projects.

• Translate product concepts, scientific rationale, consumer needs, and brand standards into technically feasible products.

• Support multiple supplement formats, including powders, capsules, tablets, gummies, stick packs, gels, liquids, and functional beverages.

• Evaluate formulas for ingredient functionality, dosage, flavor, texture, stability, sensory experience, cost, manufacturing feasibility, regulatory considerations, and consumer expectations.

• Partner with suppliers, flavor houses, co-manufacturers, and internal teams to create samples, evaluate prototypes, refine formulas, and resolve technical issues.

• Support ingredient substitutions, flavor optimization, sensory troubleshooting, and production-readiness needs.

• Balance technical rigor, product quality, consumer experience, cost, manufacturability, and speed to market.

Project Execution

• Execute assigned projects through established intake, prioritization, dashboard, and project visibility processes.

• Maintain clear project status, documentation, decision points, risks, and upcoming milestones.

• Coordinate with Product Development teammates and cross-functional partners to support commercialization timelines and deliverables.

• Escalate technical risks, resource needs, timeline concerns, unresolved decisions, and cross-functional blockers.

Renovation and Product Optimization

• Identify opportunities to improve taste, texture, solubility, sensory experience, ingredient quality, cost, sourcing, manufacturability, and product performance.

• Provide formulation and technical support for renovation and reformulation projects.

• Ensure updated products maintain scientific integrity, brand standards, regulatory alignment, quality expectations, operational feasibility, and consumer value.

Commercialization

• Support projects from concept refinement through formulation, sampling, documentation, packaging, commercialization readiness, and Supply Chain handoff.

• Establish clear product requirements, technical inputs, formula documentation, sample feedback, risks, and launch-readiness criteria.

• Support alignment across formulas, labels, claims, documentation, costing, packaging, manufacturing feasibility, and production requirements.

• Participate in sample reviews, flavor panels, technical evaluations, formula revisions, and commercialization discussions.

• Resolve technical issues involving formulations, raw materials, sensory performance, manufacturing constraints, cost, suppliers, or production.

Suppliers and Manufacturing Partners

• Collaborate with suppliers, flavor houses, co-manufacturers, and other technical partners throughout development and commercialization.

• Support raw-material substitutions and alternate-sourcing evaluations related to continuity, cost, formulation, or performance.

• Partner with Quality, Regulatory, Supply Chain, Product Documentation, and Product Development to align ingredient and supplier decisions with product and business needs.

Technical Documentation

• Maintain clear and accurate documentation for formulas, revisions, sample feedback, technical decisions, and project rationale.

• Provide timely inputs for ingredient rationale, raw-material decisions, claims support, label review, commercialization handoffs, and change control.

• Support Supplement Facts Panel creation, raw-material approval workflows, CVC claims, bills of materials, finished-good specifications, and related documentation.

• Ensure technical decisions and documentation are traceable, consistent, and accessible.

Innovation and R&D

• Support selected innovation and R&D initiatives based on team priorities.

• Translate scientific concepts, novel ingredients, and technical hypotheses into feasible formulas, samples, development plans, and commercialization pathways.

• Evaluate ingredient compatibility, dosing, sensory implications, manufacturing constraints, and commercialization risks.

• Provide hands-on support for complex formulations, ingredient substitutions, sensory concerns, and raw-material challenges.

Education and Technical Storytelling

• Provide formulation, ingredient, and technical inputs to Education, Brand, Sales, Marketing, and Product teams.

• Translate complex technical information into clear explanations that support product understanding, launch education, sales training, and product storytelling.

• Serve as a subject-matter expert during presentations by explaining ingredient selection, formula design, format, flavor strategy, differentiation, and the technical reasoning behind product decisions.

• Ensure technical information aligns with approved product positioning and claims.

What We’re Looking For

• Seven or more years of experience in product development, formulation, R&D, food science, dietary supplements, nutrition, wellness, CPG, or a related field.

• Hands-on formulation experience in dietary supplements, functional foods, powders, capsules, tablets, gummies, stick packs, gels, liquids, beverages, or similar regulated products.

• Demonstrated success moving products from concept through formulation, sampling, refinement, troubleshooting, and commercialization.

• Strong knowledge of ingredient functionality, dosage strategy, flavor, texture, sensory evaluation, cost, manufacturing constraints, regulatory considerations, and launch readiness.

• Experience working with suppliers, flavor houses, co-manufacturers, Quality, Regulatory, Supply Chain, Product Documentation, Marketing, Sales, and Education.

• Strong technical problem-solving skills related to formulations, raw materials, sensory performance, suppliers, manufacturing, and commercialization.

• Ability to manage multiple projects, communicate status clearly, and deliver work with ownership and urgency.

• Strong technical documentation skills, including formula records, ingredient rationale, sample feedback, label review, claims support, and commercialization handoffs.

• Ability to translate scientific and technical information into clear, commercially useful language.

• Strong communication, collaboration, and adaptability in a fast-moving environment.

• Experience with SpecRight, TraceGains, Unifize, Asana, Smartsheet, or similar platforms preferred.

• Ability to travel approximately 10–15% for supplier visits, contract-manufacturer visits, industry events, and company meetings.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Nutrition, Biology, Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, or a related field required.

• Master’s degree in Nutrition, Food Science, Clinical Nutrition, or a related field preferred.

Core Values

• Run to win the race:

  Pursue excellence in everything we do.

• Committed to constant growth:

  Strive to refine and improve daily.

• Take ownership:

  Be proactive and accountable.

• Be purpose-driven:

  Be dependable and mission-aligned.

• Play as a team:

  Support one another and work toward a shared mission.

Benefits and Culture

Ancient Nutrition is a fully remote, fast-paced, highly collaborative, and purpose-driven company. Many team members are based near Nashville, Tennessee. Work is about what you accomplish, not where you work.

• Competitive health, dental, vision, and life insurance

• Disability and supplemental insurance options

• Unlimited PTO for salaried employees

• Paid maternity and paternity leave

• Complimentary Ancient Nutrition products

• A wellness-oriented, values-based culture

Ready to Join Us?

Please submit a thoughtful cover letter explaining why your experience and interests make you a strong addition to the Ancient Nutrition team. We look forward to hearing from you.