Director, Fragrance Evaluation

The role

The Director of Fragrance Evaluation will lead the evaluation function and define how scent is selected, communicated, and brought to market. This person will manage the evaluation team and partner with perfumers, trend intelligence, and commercial teams.

What you will do

• Lead and manage the evaluation team
• Serve as the final decision-maker and internal voice of the consumer
• Own client-facing evaluation moments and shape the narrative around fragrance direction
• Partner with perfumers through iterative smelling, feedback, and refinement sessions
• Oversee fragrance selection across fine fragrance and personal/home care
• Give evaluators strategic guidance mid-project
• Join Paladin materials-related meetings and advocate for the fragrance department
• Collaborate with commercial teams to align fragrance direction with client needs
• Support development across both oil and turnkey projects
• Participate in and help lead internal development panels

Required qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in fragrance evaluation
• Strong expertise in fine fragrance
• Meaningful experience in personal/home care and candles
• US-based
• Able to work on-site in Elizabeth, NJ
• Proven, demonstrated coaching and team-building
• Track record building trust with perfumers
• Strong olfactive acuity
• Comfort working cross-functionally with perfumers, commercial teams, and marketing
• Comfortable with ambiguity
• Clear communicator

Nice to have

• Direct experience leading client-facing evaluation and closing
• Experience building trust and coaching relationships with both perfumers and evaluators in the same seat

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Meaningful equity
• Comprehensive medical coverage
• $0 employee premium plan option
• 100% employer paid dental and vision coverage for employees and their families
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer matching contributions
• Flexible PTO
• Paid winter closure
• 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• Mental health and wellness support
• Catered Lunch - Mon/Wed/Fri
• Employee Shuttles from Newark, NJ and Brooklyn, NY and commuter benefits

Before you apply

• US-based, able to work on-site in Elizabeth, NJ — non-negotiable, no exceptions for international candidates
• Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States

About the company

Osmo is the Olfactory Intelligence company, on a mission to give AI a sense of smell to improve the health and wellbeing of human life.