Sr. Manager, Research & Development

At Kinder’s, we’re passionate about creating food that brings people together.

will be responsible for leading the development and execution of new and improved products across retail, club, and foodservice channels.

This role will drive product formulation, process development, and innovation from concept through commercialization, ensuring every product meets Kinder’s high standards for taste, quality, and scalability.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a hands-on leadership role in a growing, values-driven food brand — partnering cross-functionally to deliver consumer-loved innovation that fuels Kinder’s continued success.

10+ years of experience in food product development, with at least 3+ years in a people or project leadership role.

Proven success in CPG innovation; sauces, seasonings, or condiments experience preferred.

Lead Product Development

Manage the end-to-end product development process — from concept ideation to launch — ensuring alignment with brand priorities, timelines, and cost objectives.

Drive Innovation & Continuous Improvement

Identify and execute opportunities for innovation, renovation, and cost optimization across Kinder’s portfolio, leveraging emerging ingredients, technologies, and process improvements.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Partner closely with Operations, Marketing, Culinary, and Supply Chain to translate consumer insights into technically feasible, scalable, and commercially viable products.

No two days here are the same.

We try to be good team members and good communicators, but we don’t live by hierarchy and structure – everyone is a difference maker here.

We make a lot of decisions in the face of incomplete information – our team embrace ambiguity and tries to make good decisions fast rather than great decisions slow.

We believe our job is to take smart risk, not to eliminate risk.

We believe in growing our skills and becoming a better company with more managerial expertise, but we are an entrepreneurial company at heart.

We aren’t trying to be average – we want to do exceptional things and we are willing to work hard to achieve them.