Soft Products Formulation Chemist

About Harry’s Harry’s is a men’s grooming brand that offers high quality shave, body, hair, and skin care products at an exceptional value. Launched in 2013, Harry’s redefined the shaving experience and helped pioneer the earliest era of direct to consumer in the process. Since then, the brand has become the #2 shave brand globally and expanded to offer products for every step in its customer’s routine.

Harry’s is also on a mission to ensure guys have access to quality mental health care. To date, the brand has helped connect over 2 million men to quality mental health resources. Harry’s is part of Mammoth Brands, the modern CPG company behind category-leading brands Harry’s, Flamingo, Lume, Mando, and Coterie.

Driven by a mission to “Create Things People Like More,” the company is creating a new model—and home—for brands, founders, and talent looking to solve unmet needs, improve peoples’ lives and ultimately change the status quo. Even as we grow, we take extra care to maintain the small, scrappy, entrepreneurial culture that helped to get us where we are today: a company that people like more, that better serves its customers, employees, and community. Mammoth Brands is committed to making a positive impact and donated over $20 million through our network of nonprofit partners to date.

We build brands that move fast and think big — and we hire people who are curious about AI, willing to experiment with it in their day-to-day work, and excited to accelerate what's possible. We prioritize giving our team the tools, training, and space to build real fluency, so you grow alongside the technology and help shape how we use it.

About The Team

The R D Soft Product Innovation Team at Harry’s is responsible for all personal care category launches from concept to market. We are a team of researchers, developers, and formulators who are on a mission to create things people like more. As our brands continue to grow, the Soft Product Laboratory will be a key driver for both new product innovation and continuous improvement, raising the bar for product excellence.

This is an on-site role located in our Soft Product Formulation Laboratory in Wayne, NJ, with a beautiful working space that includes lunch on Thursdays, and a stocked kitchen with snacks, coffee, and drinks everyday. Can’t forget the free products!

About The Role

The Soft Product Formulation Chemist will support the global development of new products and enhance our existing personal care portfolio for Mammoth Brands. In close collaboration with Product Development, Quality, Regulatory, and Sourcing teams, you’ll help bring performance-driven, consumer-loved products to market while maintaining and improving our current formulations. We seek a hands-on, detail-oriented chemist with 2+ years of experience in personal care formulation.

You’ll thrive in our fast-paced, creative environment, where innovation, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration are key.

What You’Ll Do

: Support the development and optimization of formulations across skincare, bodycare, haircare, hairstyling, and suncare categories, balancing performance, aesthetics, cost, and timeline

Requirements

Identify opportunities to enhance existing formulas, including root-cause analysis, cost-saving initiatives, and technical transfers. Demonstrate creativity and resourcefulness in proactively identifying and proposing solutions to issues that may arise during product development or in transfer to manufacturing. Work closely with cross-functional teams and external partners to execute improvement strategies efficiently.

Lead formulation testing, ensuring stability, compliance, and precise record-keeping. Manage raw material stocks, packaging inventory, and maintain traceability of formulation data. Support pilot runs and first production batches as needed.

Stay ahead of scientific advancements, ingredient innovations, and market trends to drive innovation.

Who You Are

: Product Developer at Heart – Excited b