Director of R&D, Product Innovation (Food Product Development)

Location: Cranford, New Jersey, United States

Annual salary: $190,000–$200,000 plus annual bonus

Company

hirify.global is a self-funded, profitable, rapidly growing direct-to-consumer specialty food and wellness company with more than 550 employees.

What you will do

• Build and lead the in-house recipe development capability.
• Develop commercially viable recipes for shelf-stable snacks, chocolate, and confections.
• Create formulations for products currently made by external suppliers and refine existing recipes for consistency and quality.
• Develop custom and private-label formulations for B2B customers in partnership with Sales.
• Translate innovation and value-creation briefs into scalable, production-ready formulations.
• Partner with Commercialization, Operations, Supply Chain, FSQA, and Merchandising to move recipes from bench development to full production.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Culinary Science, or a related field preferred.
• At least 8 years of experience in food product development or R&D, preferably in shelf-stable snacks, chocolate, confections, CPG, or food manufacturing.
• Demonstrated experience developing commercially viable and scalable recipe formulations for shelf-stable snacks; chocolate experience is strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge of food safety, quality, and regulatory requirements for formulation development.
• Experience scaling recipes from bench development to production with Operations and Commercialization teams.
• Strong project-management, collaboration, communication, agility, and self-motivation skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with financial modeling of cost impacts for new formulations.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced, driven, collaborative, entrepreneurial, and growing environment.
• Annual bonus opportunity.
• 401(k) matching.
• Paid maternity, adoption, and paternity leave.
• Free hirify.global snacks and a 40% employee discount.