Manager, Product Development, Fragrance

The next gen beauty company, Maesa is transforming the industry by incubating and growing meaningful, innovative brands and making prestige beauty accessible. Maesa believes beauty ignites inspiration, creativity, imagination, and connection, sparking new ideas and possibilities, and meeting unmet consumer needs. Through best-in-class design, formulation, brand creation and marketing capabilities, Maesa delivers new, better and different products with an unsurpassed speed to market. Maesa works with a variety of retailers to create and launch brands across beauty and wellness categories. The current portfolio includes Kristin Ess, Hairitage by Mindy McKnight, Fine'ry, Being Frenshe, and Niches & Nooks among other brands. For more information, visit www.maesa.com.

We are looking for a passionate fragrance innovator with proven experience in beauty to join our Blue Sky & Product Development team. This role helps to build the strategy & development of new products from ideation to launch for the largest brand in our fragrance portfolio. It offers a unique opportunity for someone wanting to leave their mark in the industry by supporting product development for a key fragrance brand. The ideal candidate is a trend savvy, product guru that can help define & steer innovation pipeline. This candidate is social savvy, obsessed with beauty products and brings a mix of creativity and love for data. This role will work closely with cross-functional teams including Sales, Packaging, Design, R&D, Supply Chain, Operations and the Go-To-Market brand team. This role is for someone who thrives in an entrepreneurial environment with the ability to work both independently as well as collaboratively with key cross-functional stakeholders and leaders. 

The role is based in NYC, and you will be expected in the office 3 days a week, at minimum per Company policy.

At Maesa, we live by our values of collaboration, curiosity, game-changing, creativity, and discipline.  We believe our people and partners are a creative force that catalyzes the possibilities in beauty to break through traditional limits and discover the “new” without restriction. We prioritize creating and fostering a welcoming environment for employees, partners, ideas, approaches, and endeavors — all through a spirit of warmth and inclusivity. As set forth in Maesa’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.  

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