Senior Manager, Product Development - Hair

At Revlon, we create beauty innovations for everyone that inspire confidence and ignite joy every day.

Breaking beauty boundaries is in our company’s DNA. Since its game-changing launch of the first opaque nail enamel in 1932 (and later, the first long-wear foundation), Revlon has provided consumers with high-quality product innovation, performance, and sophisticated glamour. Elizabeth Arden made waves as a woman-led beauty company in the 1920s. In 1931, Almay became the original hypoallergenic, fragrance-free beauty brand.

Today, Revlon resiliently continues its legacy as a leading global beauty company. Our diverse portfolio—which consists of some of the world’s most iconic brands and product offerings in color cosmetics, skincare, hair color & care, personal care, and fragrances—is sold around the world through prestige, professional, mass, and direct-to-consumer retail channels. These brands include Revlon, Revlon Professional, Elizabeth Arden, Almay, American Crew, CND, Cutex, Mitchum, Sinful Colors, Creme of Nature, Christina Aguilera, John Varvatos, Juicy Couture, Ed Hardy and more.

We honor our heritage, embrace change, and applaud diversity. We champion our employees and celebrate our consumers.

We are Revlon, together, transforming beauty.

This role is a Hybrid Role: Employees are expected to work from our New York or New Jersey office 3 days per week and may work remotely the remaining days.

At Revlon, Hair is a core part of our innovation, heritage and future growth. Our portfolio serves highly diverse consumers, hair types, needs and channels, from mass-market hair color and textured hair care to professional beauty and men's grooming. Iconic brands including Revlon ColorSilk, Creme of Nature, Revlon Professional and American Crew give us a distinctive platform to translate consumer insight, science and technology into meaningful innovation.

Position Summary

The Senior Manager, Product Development – Hair  will play a key part in identifying emerging trends, unmet consumer needs and breakthrough innovation opportunities across Hair, bringing strong R&D insights and technical perspectives to help inform and shape the long-term innovation pipeline in close partnership with the R&D Category Leader and Marketing.

The role combines upstream innovation thinking with strong product-development judgment, ensuring that concepts are consumer-relevant, technically credible, commercially meaningful and executable from early opportunity definition through launch.

Major Responsibilities

Strategic Trend and Innovation Leadership

• Identify and interpret emerging consumer, cultural, scientific, technology, format and competitive trends relevant to the future of Hair.
• Translate macro shifts, digital and social signals, market intelligence and consumer tensions into actionable opportunity spaces for Revlon Hair brands.
• Identify potential breakthrough innovation and provide recommendations.
• Bring an external perspective through active engagement with suppliers, start-ups, and TPMs.

Long-Term Pipeline and Portfolio Contribution

• Bring R&D insights, and emerging technological trends to help inform and shape the long-term Hair innovation pipeline.
• Contribute to the development of a balanced portfolio across near-term business opportunities, renovation, new product developments, and longer-term strategic platforms.

Concept and Product Development Leadership

• Co-create differentiated, insight-led product concepts with Marketing and R&D partners.
• Translate consumer and brand opportunities into clear product design briefs, target product profiles, technical KPIs and success criteria.
• Lead product development activities for assigned projects from ideation through commercialization, coordinating cross-functional input on formula, package, sensorial experience, claims and cost, and escalating significant trade-offs to the R&D Category Leader.

Product Experience, Superiority and Claims Strategy

• Guide to competitive benchmarking, key performance attributes, sensory expectations, and consumer validation strategies.
• Partner with Claims and Consumer Insights teams to develop differentiated, compelling and compliant claims of territories.
• Use consumer and sensory learning to guide product optimization, portfolio choices and communication, while maintaining clear decision criteria and accountability.

Cross-Functional and External Leadership

• Lead cross-functional discussions for assigned initiatives and translate technical and consumer findings into clear project recommendations, risks and decisions needed from the R&D Category Leader and relevant stakeholders.
• Build productive relationships with external development partners and suppliers, setting clear briefs, deliverables, governance and expectations.

Technical Leadership and Capability Development

• Provide technical guidance and share expertise with project contributors to strengthen technical skills, product development practices and execution across assigned Hair initiatives.
• Create an environment that encourages curiosity, constructive challenge, speed, accountability and learning.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Deep experience in Hair product development, ideally spanning more than one of the following: Hair Color, Hair Care, Styling, Textured Hair or Men's Grooming.
• Demonstrated ability to translate consumer needs, category trends and technical possibilities into actionable product concepts and development recommendations aligned with the Hair innovation strategy.
• Strong product development judgment, including experience defining briefs, technical KPIs, benchmarks, product experience and launch requirements.
• Experience contributing to multi-year innovation pipelines and prioritizing across short-, mid- and long-term opportunities.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, make recommendations with incomplete information, manage risk and keep teams focused on the consumer and business objectives.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to translate complex technical and consumer insights into clear project recommendations and support informed decision-making by cross-functional partners and senior leaders.
• Strong technical leadership and coaching skills, with the ability to guide project contributors, share expertise and strengthen product development capabilities across assigned initiatives.
• Self-starter with high levels of ownership, collaboration, curiosity, and organizational discipline.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in a relevant scientific, engineering, product development or related field.
• 8+ years of relevant experience in Product Development, R&D, innovation or a closely related role within beauty, hair care, personal care or another consumer-products industry.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex product development projects and coordinating cross-functional stakeholders to deliver agreed milestones and product requirements.
• Current authorization to work in the United States without current or future employment-visa sponsorship.

Measures of Success

• High-quality R&D insights and innovation opportunities that meaningfully inform the long-term Hair pipeline.
• Stronger conversion of consumer and market opportunities into actionable product and technology platforms.
• Improved clarity and quality of product briefs, decision criteria, and cross-functional alignment.
• A strong balance between near-term delivery and future-focused breakthrough opportunities.
• Stronger Product Development partnership with Marketing and greater connectivity across the global Hair organization.
• Development of stronger technical skills, knowledge sharing and product development practices across initiatives

Revlon is unable to sponsor or transfer employment visas for this role; candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future visa support.

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NJ: The base pay range for this position is $115,000.00 - $145,000.00 / year; however base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge, and geographic location. Certain positions may also be eligible for short-term incentives as part of total compensation.

NYC: The base pay range for this position is $128,000.00 - $155,000.00 / year; however base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge, and geographic location. Certain positions may also be eligible for short-term incentives as part of total compensation.

Employees (and their families) are eligible for medical, dental, and vision benefits. Employees are covered by the company-paid basic life insurance policy and company-paid short-term disability insurance (the benefit commences upon hire and allows for a portion of base salary for up to 26 weeks if you are disabled). Other benefits offered to employees include but are not limited to the following: long-term disability, supplemental life insurances, flexible spending accounts, critical illness insurance, group legal, identity theft protection, etc. Employees are also able to enroll in our 401k Retirement Savings Plan.

Employees will also receive 3 weeks of vacation, pro-rated based on date of hire for the 1st year of employment and twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Vacation will depend on role.

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