Director of Sourcing + Product Development

Title: Director of Sourcing & Product Development Reports to: President (close, ongoing collaboration with Founder on sourcing and vision) Department: Product Development Employment Status: ☒ Full-Time ☐ Part-Time ☐ Temporary A little about us: KraveBeauty is not just a skincare brand; we are a movement built on challenging the relentless consumerism of the beauty industry. We actively reject the industry's obsession with constant newness, complexity, and ad spend, and we've proven our model works, scaling to 8 figures without external funding. We're a B Corp certified, founder-led company entering a new chapter: going upstream. We're moving past where an ingredient ends up and asking where it actually came from, who grew it, and whether it was given the time it needed. If you get genuinely excited about soil, seed varieties, fermentation science, and tracking an ingredient back to the actual hands that grew it, you belong here. About The Position: KraveBeauty is hiring a Director of Sourcing & Product Development to lead two things that make our product process real: the upstream work of building a genuinely traceable, regenerative supply chain, and the downstream work of validating what we build against real consumer insight, testing, and data. This role also owns KraveBeauty's overall sustainability strategy and its regulatory compliance. Sustainability at KraveBeauty starts at the product. This role holds clear, company-wide ownership of that strategy: what we source, how we source it, and how every step from raw material to launch reflects it. It is not a sustainability function that sits inside product development; it is a sustainability strategy that product development exists to carry out. This is an execution and expertise-driven role. The Founder originates product concepts and sets brand vision; this role is responsible for validating that vision from both ends, sourcing and vetting the ingredients and suppliers that make it real, and running the consumer research, testing, and insight work that sharpens it before and during development. The ideal candidate has genuine curiosity and passion for regenerative agriculture and ingredient traceability that matches the Founder's own, real rigor in consumer research and testing methodology, and the discipline to execute against a bold vision rather than needing to originate one. Your Role & Responsibilities at KraveBeauty:Upstream Sourcing & Supply Chain Validation Identify, evaluate, and build direct relationships with farms, seed breeders, foragers, and byproduct/waste-stream sources for novel ingredient opportunities. for new ingredient suppliers and fermentation technology partners: strain IP and documentation, metabolite and efficacy data, batch-to-batch consistency, and manufacturing compliance. Lead due diligence and structure recommendations for co-development and potential joint-IP partnerships with ingredient houses and research institutions. Build and maintain KraveBeauty's network of regenerative and traceable sourcing partners, treating these as long-term relationships, not transactional vendor accounts. Validate and document full traceability for key ingredients, farm of origin, harvest season, and growing practice, in a form usable for both internal decision-making and eventual customer-facing storytelling. Consumer Insights & Product Validation Design and lead consumer surveys, focus groups, and product testing to validate and refine product concepts before and during development. Translate consumer feedback and testing data into clear, actionable inputs that actively shape the product development process. Partner directly with the Founder to pressure-test new product ideas against real consumer response, sensory testing, and efficacy data, ensuring concepts are validated by empirical data alongside internal instinct. Own structured testing protocols, concept testing, sensory panels, in-use efficacy testing, as products move through development. Product Dev…

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