About Westman Atelier
A new standard of clean luxury. Founded by world-renowned editorial makeup artist Gucci Westman, Westman Atelier is a curated edit of skin-loving, performance-first makeup that is always effortless, never overdone. A mother, makeup artist, and champion of holistic living, Gucci believes passionately that ‘luxury’, ‘efficacy’ and ‘clean’ can be synonymous with exceptional makeup.
- A skincare approach to high performance make-up formulated with clean ingredients and no-compromise integrity
- Balancing perfect shades and buttery textures that melt into the skin with plant-based actives and cutting-edge science
About Our Founder
Gucci Westman has more than 20 years of professional experience as a major editorial makeup artist, contributing to publications like Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. Gucci is known for creating dewy, supernaturally glowy looks and her highly coveted “second-skin approach” to makeup, resulting in naturally beautiful, radiantly amplified skin.
Position Summary
The Manager, Product Development will support the innovation and development of luxe, sustainable, and ethically sourced cosmetics. This role will work closely with a team of talented professionals to bring new products to life, while ensuring products are aligned with brand and founder ethos
Responsibilities:
- Support Director & VP in overseeing the product development lifecycle - tracking key deliverables and timelines to ensure on-time delivery of new product launches.
- Manage all internal trackers and documents, ensuring information is updated consistently and in a timely manner (i.e. shade names, formula numbers, product profiles, preliminary ILs etc.)
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including marketing, packaging, and operations to ensure seamless execution and communication from concept to commercialization.
- Communicate with suppliers to coordinate all necessary samples throughout the development process, ensuring seamless support to all teams in the early stages of new product launches.
- Assist in Identifying opportunities for innovation and growth within the clean beauty space by conducting competitive research & analysis.
- Work closely with Director on the formulation process from concept to launch, ensuring products meet clean beauty standards, regulatory requirements, and performance expectations.
- Create lab briefs for new projects in all makeup and skincare categories.
- Ensure all new formulas are tried and tested, providing insightful feedback and ideating on testing questionnaires with marketing and PD team.
- Manage and approve pre-production samples for open orders of products tracking and performing all batch approvals.
- Oversee all creative assets ensuring accurate product depiction in brand visuals. Be on-site for arm swatch photo shoots as needed.
Requirements:
- Proven experience (3-5 years) in product development within the beauty or cosmetics industry, with a focus on clean beauty products.
- Impeccable attention to detail
- Bring a proactive and detailed approach to projects being able to manage time and prioritize depending on project urgency.
- Deep understanding of clean beauty principles, ingredient sourcing, formulation techniques, and regulatory requirements.
- Solid project management abilities, with the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and external partners.
- Passion for the makeup/skincare industry with a keen eye for color and innovation.
- Ability to be flexible and agile on project changes, working with a sense of urgency in a fast paced environment.
- Have a can-do attitude, being able to jump in on any task needed to help the team.
- In office 3 days/week
Skills Required
- 3-5 years product development experience in the beauty or cosmetics industry, with focus on clean beauty
- Impeccable attention to detail
- Strong project management abilities; ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines
- Deep understanding of clean beauty principles, ingredient sourcing, formulation techniques, and regulatory requirements
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills for cross-functional collaboration and supplier coordination
- Passion for makeup and skincare with a keen eye for color and innovation
- Ability to be flexible, agile, and work with urgency in a fast-paced environment
- Can-do attitude; willingness to jump in on any task to support the team
- In office 3 days/week (hybrid attendance requirement)
What We Do
Founded in 2018 by professional makeup artist Gucci Westman. For Westman, there are three vital signs of modern beauty: luxury, efficacy, and clean, consciously-crafted ingredients. For her first makeup line, she combines supremely buttery, rich textures with the best plant-based active ingredients. The ultimate naturally beautiful complexion — now available to everyone. We are creating a new standard in luxury that we like to call consciously crafted beauty. Consciously crafted beauty means a transparent and thoughtful approach to innovation that recognizes modern needs, balancing ethical beauty standards with science, technology and product performance. It means we are always evolving and learning. And it means we are passionately committed to products formulated with integrity. We believe makeup should do more than enhance — it should calm, nourish and balance. Westman Atelier ingredients are thoroughly and thoughtfully curated by both artist and chemist so you can enjoy skin-benefiting, non-toxic makeup that performs at the highest possible standard. Our commitment is to constantly review, research and reassess our ingredients as fresh information comes to light — in the meantime, we’ll always be completely transparent about our formulations, which meet the European Union’s rigorous standards for clean beauty. And we promise never to use, parabens, PEGs, phthalates and many other harmful chemicals. Feel good about your skin from the inside out.
