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Product Innovation Manager

Shinkei Systems· Sales
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El Segundo, California$110k - $135kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Leads end-to-end identification, development, and commercialization of new products for Seremoni Grade™ seafood; builds and manages the innovation funnel from concept through launch, balancing near-term wins with long-term platform bets to drive growth and margin.

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve Seremoni’s product innovation portfolio: develop the innovation strategy and product roadmap to ensure that Seremoni meets the financial targets.
  • Balance near-term and long-term innovation: deliver core-business launches that hit this year’s targets while building the 3–5 year platform bets — new species, product and packaging formats, or new channels — that set up Seremoni’s next phase of growth.
  • Apply a Jobs-to-Be-Done lens to ideation: identify the underlying need a consumer, diner, chef or customer is hiring a product to satisfy, and use that lens to separate genuinely differentiated ideas from me-too concepts.
  • Set the innovation guardrails: define what whitespace is genuinely worth chasing, so the pipeline stays focused on the right bets.
  • Manage new product launches end-to-end: lead the NPD process from ideation through consumer insights, concept testing, formulation, plant trials, and packaging development, staying on as the owner of product intent all the way through commercialization and into market.
  • Build a disciplined innovation process and tools covering both stage gate and portfolio management.
  • Shape positioning for new product lines: define how each new launch sits alongside Seremoni Grade™ and the existing lineup, so the portfolio tells one coherent story.
  • Serve as the central innovation hub and subject matter expert for value-added seafood: track category trends, competitive launches, and retail/foodservice whitespace across seafood and adjacent proteins, translating raw data into recommendations leadership can act on.
  • Build and validate the business case for every innovation project: size the opportunity, model margin and COGS, and run the testing and consumer work needed to de-risk each launch before it scales.

Qualifications

  • 3–5 years in product development, innovation, or category management in CPG food/beverage
  • A track record of taking products from concept to shelf, fluent in running a stage-gated NPD process end-to-end
  • Ability to translate market insight into sharp product briefs and sales narratives, and to assess risk/reward with imperfect information
  • Experience partnering cross-functionally with R&D, supply chain, and sales
  • Strong quantitative fluency: market sizing, COGS optimization, margin modeling, and data analytics
  • Excellent communication across audiences, from R&D technicians to executive leadership
  • Resilience and resourcefulness — this is a startup, and the org chart is still being built

Skills

Required:Product development and NPDMarket insight translationCross-functional collaborationData analysis and modelingCommunication
Last updated Sep 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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