Chief Product Officer

About The Role

Grüns is seeking a Chief Product Officer to lead the team responsible for bringing new products, flavors, and formulations to market. Reporting to the CEO, this role oversees the R&D, Science & Regulatory, and Product Development functions.

Responsibilities

• Lead a best-in-class product team, ensuring each function delivers the highest-quality work and outcomes.
• Set a clear vision for what great looks like and ensure the team works seamlessly together to deliver.
• Drive innovation strategy through the right product innovation roadmap, identifying emerging categories, ingredients, and consumer opportunities.
• Champion bold, evidence-backed innovation while building the right process to bring ideas to market efficiently through our in-house R&D capabilities.
• Create industry-leading, science-backed formulations by ensuring everything we create is efficacious, compliant, and defensible.
• Set the bar for how we use clinical evidence, ingredient science, and regulatory strategy as a competitive advantage.
• Partner cross-functionally to deliver winning go-to-market strategies that translate product innovation into business results.
• Bring a commercial lens to every launch decision.
• Build for quality and scale by ensuring that quality, consistency, supply chain resilience, and process efficiency are core to how we develop and launch products.

Requirements

• 15+ years of progressive experience in product, with at least 5+ years leading a product or R&D organization in supplements, functional food, or adjacent CPG categories.
• Proven track record of launching and scaling successful consumer products from concept through commercialization.
• Deep fluency in formulation science, ingredient sourcing, and regulatory affairs in the supplement or food space.
• Experience building and leading cross-functional product teams across R&D, development, science, and quality.
• Strong commercial instincts; knows how to connect product decisions to brand, growth, and margin outcomes.

Qualifications

• Approach to the role: You thrive in a fast-moving, resource-efficient environment where speed and creativity matter as much as rigor.
• You build systems, not just solutions. When something breaks, you fix it and solve at the root by working on the thing that keeps it from breaking again.
• You measure excellence in the impact your team delivers to the business vs. in busyness or tasks completed.
• You strive to be the best at what you do and encourage your team to do the same – you're not satisfied with good or solid, and consistently strive for excellence.
• You're leveraging AI in unique ways to augment or accelerate quality of formulations and speed to market.

Skills

• Experience with AI in unique ways to augment or accelerate quality of formulations and speed to market.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package designed to support the well-being and growth of our team.

Pay

$350,000 base salary plus incentive compensation.

Schedule

Remote HQ.