BARK is looking to create food and treat products for dogs that meet their quality, nutrition, regulatory, and palatability guidelines, and is seeking a Product Developer to lead this effort.
Requirements
- Minimum 5-7 years experience in product development or R&D in the pet food industry, injection molding experience preferred.
- Experience in managing projects throughout the whole product development R&D process from prototyping, production, QA to logistics, and fulfillment.
- Experience in a high volume manufacturing environment, preferably in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry.
- Experience working directly with contract manufacturers, material vendors, and new technologies.
- B.S. degree in Food Science, Chemistry, Food Safety, Engineering or related field.
Responsibilities
- Define, develop, plan, and manage R&D projects and product development initiatives.
- Partner with cross functional teams to identify customer insights and translate these into new product development opportunities.
- Discover & collaborate with third party manufacturers to deliver projects from concept to commercialization.
- Ensure all products meet guidelines for Bark quality, nutrition, regulatory, and palatability.
Other
- MUST LOVE DOGS.
- Ability to manage multiple cross functional stakeholders.
- Fantastic communicator.
- B.S. degree in Food Science, Chemistry, Food Safety, Engineering or related field.
- This position is a full-time, salaried position.
