Associate Director of Fragrance Development

The role

The Associate Director of Fragrance Development owns the multi-year fragrance strategy across all product categories. This leadership role involves managing fragrance house relationships, leading a team of developers, and overseeing fragrance costs and development calendars.

What you will do

• Define and own the multi-year fragrance strategy and scent architecture
• Lead the fragrance workstream for new brand and category launches
• Build and maintain the fragrance roadmap and pipeline
• Represent fragrance strategy to the executive leadership team
• Monitor fragrance, ingredient, and consumer trends
• Own strategic relationships with fragrance houses
• Write and deliver creative and technical briefs
• Partner with Procurement and Finance on cost negotiation and dual-sourcing
• Hire, coach, and develop a team of fragrance developers
• Ensure fragrance materials meet regulatory, safety, and ingredient-standard requirements

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Cosmetic Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 7+ years of experience in fragrance and/or product development in consumer packaged goods or personal care industry
• 2+ years of direct people leadership
• Deep technical fluency in fragrance including olfactive families, raw materials, performance in-base, stability, and cost drivers
• Proven track record owning fragrance house relationships and managing development programs
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated olfactive acuity

Nice to have

• Genuinely interested in Fragrance, health & wellness

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• 401k with Squatch match
• PTO
• healthy snacks
• frequent company events
• free products

About the company

Dr. Squatch is a high-growth company raising the bar on men's personal care with natural, high-performance products. They are a certified B Corp and have been recognized as a Great Place to Work multiple times.