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About the Role
Cellmetics Beauty is a direct-to-consumer pro-age cosmetics brand seeking a Senior Eye Make-Up Product Developer in an advisory capacity. This role will shape the eye category, influence product decisions, and guide development from concept to launch for the 50+ consumer.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical advisory across the eye make-up category, including mascara, eyeliner, brow products, and adjacent innovations.
- Guide formulation strategy, ingredient selection, performance targets, and commercial trade-offs.
- Advise on product assortment, claims, shades, and category expansion based on deep industry expertise.
- Design and oversee product validation programmes, including wear testing, ophthalmologist testing, consumer panels, stability studies, and PET.
- Evaluate manufacturers' technical proposals and challenge recommendations when needed.
- Support sourcing and selection of contract manufacturers and raw material suppliers.
- Stay ahead of EU cosmetic regulations, ingredient developments, claim substantiation requirements, and emerging clean beauty trends.
- Share practical expertise gained from developing and launching successful colour cosmetic products.
- Collaborate confidently with cross-functional teams in English within a fast-moving, entrepreneurial environment.
- Contribute as a trusted strategic advisor while remaining hands-on during critical product development milestones.
Requirements
- Expertise to help shape our eye category, influence key product decisions, and guide development from concept to launch.
- Technical expertise to bring to supplier and manufacturer conversations, ensuring the highest product standards.
- Ability to help build a product portfolio that genuinely serves an overlooked consumer segment.
- Deep industry expertise.
- Practical expertise gained from developing and launching successful colour cosmetic products.
- Ability to collaborate confidently with cross-functional teams in English within a fast-moving, entrepreneurial environment.
- Ability to contribute as a trusted strategic advisor while remaining hands-on during critical product development milestones.
Skills
- Eye make-up product development
- Formulation strategy
- Ingredient selection
- Product validation
- Wear testing
- Ophthalmologist testing
- Consumer panels
- Stability studies
- PET
- Manufacturer evaluation
- Supplier sourcing
- EU cosmetic regulations
- Claim substantiation
- Clean beauty trends
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Part-time
- Advisory
Experience Level
- Senior
- Advisory
Salary/Compensations
- Monthly retainer plus hourly-based upside and bonus on successfully launched products
Benefits
- Equity in outcomes
About the Company
- Cellmetics Beauty is a direct-to-consumer pro-age cosmetics brand within the Kilo venture-builder ecosystem.
- We're creating the brand mature consumers actually want—sophisticated formulations, honest claims, and products designed around how skin, lashes, and lips change with age.
- We're building for the 50+ consumer: an underserved, ingredient-literate audience that expects products to genuinely perform.
- As an early-stage, well-funded venture moving quickly, we're looking for a Senior Eye Make-Up Product Developer to join us in an advisory capacity.