R&D Manager
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We must preserve all substantive information. So include: About the role (maybe a paragraph summarizing role). Responsibilities: list bullet points. Requirements: list bullet points. Benefits: list bullet points. Pay: include salary range. Schedule: include in-person/hybrid days.
We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual content.
We must not include Job ID etc.
We must not include application instructions.
We must not include cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc.
We must output only HTML fragment.
Let's extract content.
From posting:
"Magic Spoon reimagines your childhood breakfasts favorites with more protein, less sugar, and more fun. Since launching in 2019, we've brought our unbelievably tasty cereal to over one million customers online and over 20,000 stores nationwide. With our recently launched Protein Oatmeal and Protein Granola we're continuing to find new ways to make mornings magical - all made possible by our incredible team. The Research and Development Manager will lead and manage all aspects of the technical pipeline from concept through commercialization, ensuring proper execution. This role will report into our Senior Director, Product and will oversee the work and development of a Food Scientist, and their direct report (Associate Food Scientist). This is a full time, in-person/hybrid role (Tues, Weds, Thurs in office) based in Tribeca, NYC, with additional days in office as needed."
Then bullet list of responsibilities (starting with "In this role you will:" then list). Let's extract each bullet:
- Support innovation and renovation pipeline by overseeing scientist's lab work, scale up trials, factory 1st productions, and post launch updates
- Stay abreast of competitive products to ensure we stay competitive, review gaps in market, and stay on top of customer insights and trends
- Evaluate ideas for new innovation using industry knowledge, external partners, rapid prototyping, etc.
- Manage team of food scientist's workload and professional development
- Collaborates cross functionally to ensure alignment of product development goals
- Create in-budget and in-specification products that meet consumer expectations
- Work internally and externally to develop and execute against product testing plans
- Ensure proper oversight of nutrition fact panel generation and ingredient declarations for all new and updated products
- Travel to factories to support start up of new products and equipment as needed
- Problem solve and offer solutions to technical and business issues as they arise based on knowledge of manufacturing and formulation
- Support operations team in cost savings and efficiency measures from scoping to first production
- Identify and action opportunities for process improvements and efficiencies within the product department
Then "Requirements" list:
- 6-10+ years of product development experience in food, CPG, or related industries
- Proven experience leading formulation, scale‑up, and commercialization with co‑manufacturers
- Strong knowledge of food science, ingredient functionality, processing, and regulatory requirements
- Experience managing and developing technical teams
- Deep understanding of manufacturing processes, cost drivers, and quality systems
- Experience with PLM systems, formulation tools (e.g., Genesis), and supplier documentation
- Ability to balance consumer expectations, cost targets, and operational realities
- Strong problem‑solving skills with the ability to navigate ambiguity and technical complexity
- Highly collaborative, with the ability to influence cross‑functionally
- Organized, proactive, and comfortable owning multiple work streams at once
- Hands‑on leader who can switch between strategic thinking and tactical execution
- Travel required for the role :20-50% (maybe format as "Travel required for the role: 20-50%")
Then Benefits list:
- Competitive salary & equity
- Bonus eligibility
- 100% covered Health, Vision, Dental insurance (50% covered for dependents)
- 401(k) with company match
- Generous parental leave
- Flexible vacation
- Paid company holidays
- Paid sick leave
- Catered lunch in office
- Dog friendly office
- Unlimited cereal ✨ 🥣
Then Pay: "The anticipated annual base salary range for this role is $125,000-$150,000."
Also mention equity and bonus eligibility already in benefits.
Schedule: "This is a full time, in-person/hybrid role (Tues, Weds, Thurs in office) based in Tribeca, NYC, with additional days in office as needed."
We could put schedule in its own section.
We need to avoid duplication: The description about full time etc appears earlier; we can include schedule section.
We must not include "Magic Spoon reimagines..." maybe that's part of About the role? Could be a paragraph about company and role. We'll put that in About the role section.
Let's craft HTML:
About the role
Magic Spoon reimagines your childhood breakfast favorites with more protein, less sugar, and more fun. Since launching in 2019, we've brought our unbelievably tasty cereal to over one million customers online and over 20,000 stores nationwide. With our recently launched Protein Oatmeal and Protein Granola we're continuing to find new ways to make mornings magical - all made possible by our incredible team. The Research and Development Manager will lead and manage all aspects of the technical pipeline from concept through commercialization, ensuring proper execution. This role will report into our Senior Director, Product and will oversee the work and development of a Food Scientist, and their direct report (Associate Food Scientist). This is a full time, in-person/hybrid role (Tues, Weds, Thurs in office) based in Tribeca, NYC, with additional days in office as needed.
Then Responsibilities:
Responsibilities
- Support innovation and renovation pipeline by overseeing scientist's lab work, scale up trials, factory 1st productions, and post launch updates
- Stay abreast of competitive products to ensure we stay competitive, review gaps in market, and stay on top of customer insights and trends
- Evaluate ideas for new innovation using industry knowledge, external partners, rapid prototyping, etc.
- Manage team of food scientist's workload and professional development
- Collaborates cross functionally to ensure alignment of product development goals
- Create in-budget and in-specification products that meet consumer expectations
- Work internally and externally to develop and execute against product testing plans
- Ensure proper oversight of nutrition fact panel generation and ingredient declarations for all new and updated products
- Travel to factories to support start up of new products and equipment as needed
- Problem solve and offer solutions to technical and business issues as they arise based on knowledge of manufacturing and formulation
- Support operations team in cost savings and efficiency measures from scoping to first production
- Identify and action opportunities for process improvements and efficiencies within the product department
Requirements:
Requirements
- 6-10+ years of product development experience in food, CPG, or related industries
- Proven experience leading formulation, scale‑up, and commercialization with co‑manufacturers
- Strong knowledge of food science, ingredient functionality, processing, and regulatory requirements
- Experience managing and developing technical teams
- Deep understanding of manufacturing processes, cost drivers, and quality systems
- Experience with PLM systems, formulation tools (e.g., Genesis), and supplier documentation
- Ability to balance consumer expectations, cost targets, and operational realities
- Strong problem‑solving skills with the ability to navigate ambiguity and technical complexity
- Highly collaborative, with the ability to influence cross‑functionally
- Organized, proactive, and comfortable owning multiple work streams at once
- Hands‑on leader who can switch between strategic thinking and tactical execution
- Travel required for the role: 20-50%
Benefits:
Benefits
- Competitive salary & equity
- Bonus eligibility
- 100% covered Health, Vision, Dental insurance (50% covered for dependents)
- 401(k) with company match
- Generous parental leave
- Flexible vacation
- Paid company holidays
- Paid sick leave
- Catered lunch in office
- Dog friendly office
- Unlimited cereal ✨ 🥣
Pay:
Pay
The anticipated annual base salary range for this role is $125,000‑$150,000.
Schedule:
Schedule
Full‑time, in‑person/hybrid (Tues, Weds, Thurs in office) based in Tribeca, NYC, with additional days in office as needed.
We must ensure we didn't repeat job title. Good.
Check for any boilerplate: we removed EEO, visa, etc. Also removed "Magic Spoon intends to offer competitive base pay..." etc. We kept the salary range line. We removed "Magic Spoon is committed to building a company..." etc.
We kept the "Travel required for the role :20-50%" changed to colon.
Make sure we didn't include duplicate lines like "Competitive salary & equity" appears also in benefits; that's fine.
Check for any leftover like "Hold on to the Dream..." etc. Those are values section; we removed as boilerplate? The instruction: Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The "What we value:" section is not explicitly listed as boilerplate but could be considered fluff; however it's substantive? It's more cultural values. The instruction says to remove boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. It doesn't explicitly say to remove values. However they said "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." The values section could be considered thin. But we could keep it as a section? The instruction: "include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text". The values section has specific content (list of values). It's not filler like "commensurate with experience". It's actual content. Should we include? The instruction didn't say to remove values. It said remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. Values are not those. So we could include a "What we value" section. However they also said "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." The values section might be considered thin but it's still substantive. I'd include it maybe as a section with list.
But we need to decide. The example in the instruction: they gave list of possible headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. They didn't list Values. So maybe they expect only those sections. The values could be considered part of About the
for prose. Do not include boilerplate like EEO, visa, etc. Remove duplicated lines. We must preserve all substantive information. So include: About the role (maybe a paragraph summarizing role). Responsibilities: list bullet points. Requirements: list bullet points. Benefits: list bullet points. Pay: include salary range. Schedule: include in-person/hybrid days. We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual content. We must not include Job ID etc. We must not include application instructions. We must not include cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. We must output only HTML fragment. Let's extract content. From posting: "Magic Spoon reimagines your childhood breakfasts favorites with more protein, less sugar, and more fun. Since launching in 2019, we've brought our unbelievably tasty cereal to over one million customers online and over 20,000 stores nationwide. With our recently launched Protein Oatmeal and Protein Granola we're continuing to find new ways to make mornings magical - all made possible by our incredible team. The Research and Development Manager will lead and manage all aspects of the technical pipeline from concept through commercialization, ensuring proper execution. This role will report into our Senior Director, Product and will oversee the work and development of a Food Scientist, and their direct report (Associate Food Scientist). This is a full time, in-person/hybrid role (Tues, Weds, Thurs in office) based in Tribeca, NYC, with additional days in office as needed." Then bullet list of responsibilities (starting with "In this role you will:" then list). Let's extract each bullet: - Support innovation and renovation pipeline by overseeing scientist's lab work, scale up trials, factory 1st productions, and post launch updates - Stay abreast of competitive products to ensure we stay competitive, review gaps in market, and stay on top of customer insights and trends - Evaluate ideas for new innovation using industry knowledge, external partners, rapid prototyping, etc. - Manage team of food scientist's workload and professional development - Collaborates cross functionally to ensure alignment of product development goals - Create in-budget and in-specification products that meet consumer expectations - Work internally and externally to develop and execute against product testing plans - Ensure proper oversight of nutrition fact panel generation and ingredient declarations for all new and updated products - Travel to factories to support start up of new products and equipment as needed - Problem solve and offer solutions to technical and business issues as they arise based on knowledge of manufacturing and formulation - Support operations team in cost savings and efficiency measures from scoping to first production - Identify and action opportunities for process improvements and efficiencies within the product department Then "Requirements" list: - 6-10+ years of product development experience in food, CPG, or related industries - Proven experience leading formulation, scale‑up, and commercialization with co‑manufacturers - Strong knowledge of food science, ingredient functionality, processing, and regulatory requirements - Experience managing and developing technical teams - Deep understanding of manufacturing processes, cost drivers, and quality systems - Experience with PLM systems, formulation tools (e.g., Genesis), and supplier documentation - Ability to balance consumer expectations, cost targets, and operational realities - Strong problem‑solving skills with the ability to navigate ambiguity and technical complexity - Highly collaborative, with the ability to influence cross‑functionally - Organized, proactive, and comfortable owning multiple work streams at once - Hands‑on leader who can switch between strategic thinking and tactical execution - Travel required for the role :20-50% (maybe format as "Travel required for the role: 20-50%") Then Benefits list: - Competitive salary & equity - Bonus eligibility - 100% covered Health, Vision, Dental insurance (50% covered for dependents) - 401(k) with company match - Generous parental leave - Flexible vacation - Paid company holidays - Paid sick leave - Catered lunch in office - Dog friendly office - Unlimited cereal ✨ 🥣 Then Pay: "The anticipated annual base salary range for this role is $125,000-$150,000." Also mention equity and bonus eligibility already in benefits. Schedule: "This is a full time, in-person/hybrid role (Tues, Weds, Thurs in office) based in Tribeca, NYC, with additional days in office as needed." We could put schedule in its own section. We need to avoid duplication: The description about full time etc appears earlier; we can include schedule section. We must not include "Magic Spoon reimagines..." maybe that's part of About the role? Could be a paragraph about company and role. We'll put that in About the role section. Let's craft HTML:
About the role
Magic Spoon reimagines your childhood breakfast favorites with more protein, less sugar, and more fun. Since launching in 2019, we've brought our unbelievably tasty cereal to over one million customers online and over 20,000 stores nationwide. With our recently launched Protein Oatmeal and Protein Granola we're continuing to find new ways to make mornings magical - all made possible by our incredible team. The Research and Development Manager will lead and manage all aspects of the technical pipeline from concept through commercialization, ensuring proper execution. This role will report into our Senior Director, Product and will oversee the work and development of a Food Scientist, and their direct report (Associate Food Scientist). This is a full time, in-person/hybrid role (Tues, Weds, Thurs in office) based in Tribeca, NYC, with additional days in office as needed.
Then Responsibilities:Responsibilities
- Support innovation and renovation pipeline by overseeing scientist's lab work, scale up trials, factory 1st productions, and post launch updates
- Stay abreast of competitive products to ensure we stay competitive, review gaps in market, and stay on top of customer insights and trends
- Evaluate ideas for new innovation using industry knowledge, external partners, rapid prototyping, etc.
- Manage team of food scientist's workload and professional development
- Collaborates cross functionally to ensure alignment of product development goals
- Create in-budget and in-specification products that meet consumer expectations
- Work internally and externally to develop and execute against product testing plans
- Ensure proper oversight of nutrition fact panel generation and ingredient declarations for all new and updated products
- Travel to factories to support start up of new products and equipment as needed
- Problem solve and offer solutions to technical and business issues as they arise based on knowledge of manufacturing and formulation
- Support operations team in cost savings and efficiency measures from scoping to first production
- Identify and action opportunities for process improvements and efficiencies within the product department
Requirements
- 6-10+ years of product development experience in food, CPG, or related industries
- Proven experience leading formulation, scale‑up, and commercialization with co‑manufacturers
- Strong knowledge of food science, ingredient functionality, processing, and regulatory requirements
- Experience managing and developing technical teams
- Deep understanding of manufacturing processes, cost drivers, and quality systems
- Experience with PLM systems, formulation tools (e.g., Genesis), and supplier documentation
- Ability to balance consumer expectations, cost targets, and operational realities
- Strong problem‑solving skills with the ability to navigate ambiguity and technical complexity
- Highly collaborative, with the ability to influence cross‑functionally
- Organized, proactive, and comfortable owning multiple work streams at once
- Hands‑on leader who can switch between strategic thinking and tactical execution
- Travel required for the role: 20-50%
Benefits
- Competitive salary & equity
- Bonus eligibility
- 100% covered Health, Vision, Dental insurance (50% covered for dependents)
- 401(k) with company match
- Generous parental leave
- Flexible vacation
- Paid company holidays
- Paid sick leave
- Catered lunch in office
- Dog friendly office
- Unlimited cereal ✨ 🥣
Pay
The anticipated annual base salary range for this role is $125,000‑$150,000.
Schedule:Schedule
Full‑time, in‑person/hybrid (Tues, Weds, Thurs in office) based in Tribeca, NYC, with additional days in office as needed.
We must ensure we didn't repeat job title. Good. Check for any boilerplate: we removed EEO, visa, etc. Also removed "Magic Spoon intends to offer competitive base pay..." etc. We kept the salary range line. We removed "Magic Spoon is committed to building a company..." etc. We kept the "Travel required for the role :20-50%" changed to colon. Make sure we didn't include duplicate lines like "Competitive salary & equity" appears also in benefits; that's fine. Check for any leftover like "Hold on to the Dream..." etc. Those are values section; we removed as boilerplate? The instruction: Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The "What we value:" section is not explicitly listed as boilerplate but could be considered fluff; however it's substantive? It's more cultural values. The instruction says to remove boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. It doesn't explicitly say to remove values. However they said "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." The values section could be considered thin. But we could keep it as a section? The instruction: "include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text". The values section has specific content (list of values). It's not filler like "commensurate with experience". It's actual content. Should we include? The instruction didn't say to remove values. It said remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. Values are not those. So we could include a "What we value" section. However they also said "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." The values section might be considered thin but it's still substantive. I'd include it maybe as a section with- list.
But we need to decide. The example in the instruction: they gave list of possible headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. They didn't list Values. So maybe they expect only those sections. The values could be considered part of About the