R&D Product Design Manager

Impossible Foods is addressing the most catastrophic threats facing humanity: climate change and biodiversity collapse. A global transition to a plant-based food system will turn back the clock on atmospheric CO2 levels, restore natural ecosystems and reverse meltdown in wildlife biomass.
The easiest -- if not only -- way to make our civilization sustainable is to eliminate livestock, the most dangerous technology on Earth. But humans won’t give up meat. So we need to make meat better -- more delicious and more nutritious, without animals as the underlying production technology. That means that making meat sustainably is the most important and urgent problem for the global scientific community.
Impossible Foods' mission is to completely replace the use of animals as a food-production technology by offering consumers everything they currently value about animal products -- and making products that are vastly superior to their animal analogues.
To do this, we are taking a revolutionary scientific and market-based approach. We are inventing efficient, sustainable ways to transform ingredients from plants into meat, fish and dairy foods that deliver all the pleasures and nutritional benefits consumers demand, without the destructive environmental or public health impact.
Our world-class R&D team has been building the know-how and technology platform to produce meat, fish and dairy foods from plants. Impossible Foods is experiencing rapid growth and is resolutely committed to leading all aspects of the plant-based food revolution—from discovery to commercial production. The only thing that will separate Impossible Foods from success and failure is our ability to recruit more world-class experts.
Want to join? Check out the job opening and requirements below:
We are looking for an experienced, motivated and mission-aligned R&D Product Design Manager to join the Product Innovation Department - an interdisciplinary team of designers, scientists, engineers, and chefs. An ideal candidate has a strong track record in consumer research, product design, and innovation. You will understand our consumer's and customer's needs and voice their expectations during the product innovation and development process. We are looking for an individual that is consumer focused who can inspire, generate ideas, and work side by side with scientists and developers to deliver outstanding customer centric products.

You Will:

• Bring consumer-focused thinking to design, innovation, and the development of new food products.
• Design food products aligning customer, consumer, and company needs.
• Determine packaging features, and ensure packaging affordances.
• Collaboratively build product blueprint and key sensory attributes.
• Determine gold standard, benchmarks and success criteria.
• Conduct research to understand our consumer’s needs, drivers of liking, desired product and packaging attributes, and white space studies.
• Drive the creation of novel product concept prototypes to test the importance of attributes to consumers.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with the new product teams to develop and validate the best products, particularly with consumer insights, sensory science, packaging team and product management.

You Have:

• M.S. in Food Science, Sensory Science, Biochemistry, Material Science, Engineering, Product Design or similar field.
• 7+ years of experience in consumer research, product design and/or product innovation.
• 3+ years of sensory /perceptual research experience.
• Consistent track record for designing innovative products.
• Extensive experience translating human values and consumer research into product design.
• An experimentalist with extensive use of scientific methods such as design of experiments.
• Ability to thrive in a diverse, dynamic team.
• Experience designing, and conducting diverse qualitative and quantitative consumer research.
• Self-starter that is naturally curious and enjoys working in a fast-past environment.
• Ability to continuously challenge assumptions to seek innovative solutions.

Impossible Foods Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to  race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.