Company Description

Skin Gym is an innovative beauty brand that creates beauty tools and skincare for the face and body. Inspired by ancient and modern beauty techniques, Skin Gym fits right into your active lifestyle. Our award-winning products have been featured in Vogue, Allure, ELLE, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmo, Nylon, Byrdie, and many more. Skin Gym is a female-founded, family-owned company based in Los Angeles and our products are available worldwide, including ULTA, Nordstrom, Macy's, and Amazon.

Role Description

This is a full-time, on-site role for a Product Development Coordinator. The Product Development Coordinator will be responsible for day-to-day tasks related to product development, including communication with suppliers, analyzing market trends, managing projects, creating marketing sell-sheets, product briefs and assisting with sales. The ideal candidate is excited and passionate about developing beauty products and will be a key contributor to a growing indie beauty brand

• Proficiency in project management methodologies and tools, with a track record of meeting project milestones and deadlines.

• Experience in supplier and vendor management, including sourcing raw materials, negotiating contracts, pricing and maintaining supplier relationships.

• Support cross-functional departments with robust Launch Presentations on, ingredients, usage, benefits, claims, etc.

• Distill founder’s ideas to achievable and innovative product concepts.

• Creation of Product Concept Decks to align internal team on

• Hard and Soft Product Claims on Secondary Packaging

• Assist with clinical substantiation process (hard claims)

• Advise high level on language (soft claims).

• Responsible for monitoring the total COG vs. budget through the product life cycle.

• Manage and negotiate product costs in line with competitive SRPs

• Follow up as needed to ensure all orders are being properly shipped and arriving on schedule

Qualifications

• 2 years of product development experience in the beauty industry, ideally in skincare, haircare or color cosmetics

• Knowledge of the beauty market and a passion for products, ingredients and how they work

• Familiarity with regulatory affairs, compliance, and required testing within the beauty industry

• Strong organization and filing skills

• Sense of urgency

• Proven track record of attention to detail

• Ability to manage multiple responsibilities and tasks with precision and detail

• Ability to work strategically and collaboratively across departments

• Solid problem-solving skills, analytical skills, and business acumen

• Flexible personality to take on new challenges as they come and to switch gears immediately when necessary

• Strong knowledge of MS Suite products (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook) and project management platforms (strong knowledge of Monday.com platform a plus, but not required)

• Excellent written, presentation and verbal communication skills

• Must be based in Los Angeles, CA
• The role is located in our DTLA office.

We offer a competitive benefits package including vacation time, health benefits, 401k , paid holidays, and more.