Junior Chemist

About Maesa

The next gen beauty company, Maesa is transforming the industry by incubating and growing meaningful, innovative brands and making prestige beauty accessible. Maesa believes beauty ignites inspiration, creativity, imagination, and connection, sparking new ideas and possibilities, and meeting unmet consumer needs. Through best-in-class design, formulation, brand creation and marketing capabilities, Maesa delivers new, better and different products with an unsurpassed speed to market. Maesa works with a variety of retailers to create and launch brands across beauty and wellness categories. The current portfolio includes Kristin Ess, Hairitage by Mindy McKnight, Fine'ry, Being Frenshe, and Niches & Nooks among other brands. For more information, visit www.maesa.com. 

Role Overview

The Junior Chemist manages and maintains all our internal and external formulas testing up to date as well as managing all the pre-regulatory documentation. In this role, the coordinator will prepare a technical presentation for future launches to the I&I teams. The Junior Chemist will create stability templates and issues final reports for all the brands and create final dossiers to formally release formulas for production.  

This is a hybrid role which requires 3 days per week working in the lab located in Fairfield, New Jersey and 2 days from home.

Responsibilities 

• Batch formulas & conduct internal stability as required by the supervisor, i.e., track stability, update results charts and summarize data for review at each test period.
• Manage all stability reports from external manufacturers and share findings with corresponding chemist.
• Work together with Senior Scientists to prepare lab batches of formulas needed for submitting samples for new development and reformulate / resubmit them based on Marketing team’s feedback.
• Develop detailed lab scale processes for success in manufacturing, including critical raw materials order of addition, processing parameters, and preliminary specification and test results
• Document in MAESA Lab book every batch made with details of reason for the batch, batching notes, batch specification results and other test results as applicable
• Coordinate all extra samples shipping with different vendors (bulk for fragrance base/ bulk for packaging/ etc.)
• Manage each of the brand trackers for submissions/ formulas/ samples/ testing for the whole R&D team
• Digitally catalog raw material samples to track inventory
• Prepares R&D innovation presentations for future launches
• Manage digital formula libraries for R&D
• Generate Tentative ILs of internal lab batches for regulatory review.
• Request and manage formula documents (COA/ Raw Material documents) to provide to regulatory once formula approval for internal formulas
• Conduct efficacy testing as required by supervisor
• Conduct laboratory efficacy tests and write reports detailing experiments, analysis and summary of results
• Communicate formulation stability and efficacy issues promptly and thoroughly to supervisor
• Perform/Monitor calibration and validation of all lab instruments.
• Maintain clean, safe and well-organized lab working area.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment; must be self-motivated and self-directed
• Strong organizational and communication skills, and the ability to work with a high degree of autonomy
• Strength in timeline management, managing multiple projects simultaneously

Qualifications and Requirements 

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred – Chemistry, Engineering or related field of study
• 3-5 years of beauty industry/personal care, including formulation and scale-up, required
• Experience working as a Lab Technician at a Personal care industry.
• Strong communication skills and adept negotiating/influencing competencies

What We Offer   

$66,300/yr - $85,000/yr. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location. This position is eligible for participation in a discretionary bonus plan based on individual and company performance.   

Maesa offers a variety of benefits to eligible employees. Employees can choose to enroll in health insurance coverage, wellness programs, life and disability insurance, and retirement savings plans. Through generous paid time off, a hybrid office setup, and paid leave options, Maesa encourages wellness and balance among employees. 

Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.

Our Commitment to You  

At Maesa, we live by our values of collaboration, curiosity, game-changing, creativity, and discipline.  We believe our people and partners are a creative force that catalyzes the possibilities in beauty to break through traditional limits and discover the “new” without restriction. We prioritize creating and fostering a welcoming environment for employees, partners, ideas, approaches, and endeavors — all through a spirit of warmth and inclusivity. As set forth in Maesa’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.  

Our EVP

Maesa is the next-gen beauty company, where bold ideas become beautiful brands. We ignite the dreamer and doer in each of us. We move at the speed of culture to push boundaries and redefine possibilities unleashing #maesamagic everyday. By fostering a start-up spirit, we equip everyone to lead with accountability & execute with excellence. We champion each voice and empower every journey, creating an environment where we celebrate diversity of thinking, calculated risk taking, and cutting-edge innovation. Growth is personal, intentional, and limitless.

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