Senior Manager, Strategy & Insights – Product

Our Story Launched in 2015, S ol de J aneiro is a globally recognized, award-winning beauty brand, drawing inspiration from Brazil’s beauty rituals, warmth, and spirit. S ol de J aneiro delivers a sensory experience beloved by multi-generational consumers worldwide, with clinically proven results, transformative textures, and transportive fragrances. Headquartered in New York and launched as a digitally native brand, we have expanded globally with teams in Paris, London, and Germany. Our commitment to excellence has earned high-profile honors, including being named one of TIME1 00’s 2024 Most Influential Companies, Fast Company’s 2024 World's Most Innovative Companies, and WWD Beauty Inc’s Power Brands of 2024, underscoring its leadership in the beauty industry and outstanding workplace . These accolades highlight our dedication to being a leading brand in the beauty industry and an exceptional workplace. What You’ll Do You'll be the key strategist sitting inside the Strategy & Insights team, with a remit focused on Product — spanning both Global Product Marketing (GPM). Your job is to own the market, competitor and consumer insight that shapes our product portfolio and long-term product strategy, and to convert that data into actions the GPM teams can build on. You'll spot what trends are happening in the market, what consumers are looking for, and size the opportunities. You'll partner with Global Product Marketing to build annual and 3-year product strategy, keep a pulse on what's trending, and stay close throughout the product development process — from ideation and concept testing through to launch. This is a role for someone who can look at the data, see where the market is going, and help the team conceptualize and actualize the products that get us there. What You’ll Be Working On Help shape product strategy Own the insight that helps inform annual and 3-year product strategy for the SVP GPM, partnering with the Product Marketing team that leads it. Size the opportunity: quantify the prize for new categories, formats, price points, claims and markets. Translate trends, consumer needs and competitive white space into concrete product recommendations and portfolio bets. Help conceptualize and actualize products — convert data into actions the GPM and Product/Regulatory teams can execute against. Know the competition and the market Publish a quarterly competitor benchmark: launches, pricing, claims, assortment, media and retail presence. Turn around a teardown of any major competitor launch within two weeks. Map white space by category, price point, format and region. Spot what's next Track adoption curves for our launches and key category trends, from early fans to the mainstream. Run a monthly trend radar across ingredients, scents, formats, rituals, claims and channels, with the Product / Regulatory team as key stakeholders. Turn consumer research and reviews into short notes on what we're seeing and what to do about it. Support product development end-to-end Partner through the product development stages: ideation, concept testing, product testing and pre-launch validation. Bring the consumer and market lens to product tests and help the team read results and decide what to do next.