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Prose is seeking a Scientific Communication Manager to lead the company's scientific storytelling and claims strategy. This is a hands-on, high-visibility role sitting at the intersection of R&D, Brand, Innovation, and Digital Product. The role reports to the Director of Scientific Affairs & Sustainability.
Key responsibilities include:
**Scientific Communication Strategy**: Shape Prose's global scientific communication strategy aligned with brand positioning. Establish narrative structure and tone of voice defining scientific authority across key communication territories and ingredients. Translate ingredient information and product testing data into clear, engaging narratives and claims. Act as a creative catalyst on new ingredients, technology, and testing communication opportunities.
**Technical & Claims Dossiers**: Review and approve final test results, providing technical interpretation in collaboration with partner teams. Build and maintain robust technical and scientific dossiers for new product launches and renovations, including literature reviews, scientific territories, active ingredients, and performance test results. Support preparation of oral presentations, posters, and peer-reviewed articles when relevant.
**Scientific & Competitive Intelligence**: Maintain active scientific and competitive watch to identify new technology, ingredients, and communication territories (longevity, exposome, microbiome). Prospect new raw materials, biological targets, and technologies through supplier relationships and competitive intelligence. Stay at the forefront of cosmetic trends to provide marketing teams with strategic input.
**Scientific Culture & Cross-Functional Collaboration**: Infuse strong scientific culture across the organization, building dialogue between science and non-scientific teams. Partner closely with R&D, Marketing, CX, and Digital Product to ensure product claims and launch concepts are scientifically accurate. Work with the Evaluation team to coordinate clinical, instrumental, and consumer testing. Partner with regulatory affairs to ensure substantiation needs are met. Articulate complex scientific concepts to audiences with varying levels of scientific literacy.
About Prose: Founded in 2017, Prose is a custom hair and skin care company with hubs in Paris, New York, and Los Angeles. The company has completed 10M+ consultations, serves 2M customers with 350K active subscribers, and has made 21M custom products with 1M+ unique formulas. Prose is a certified B Corporation, Public Benefit Corporation, and Climate Neutral company. The company is profitable since 2024 with $165M+ revenue in 2024.
**Requirements**:
- Strong scientific/technical background in cosmetic science, dermatology, biology, or related field, with ability to move fluidly between deep science and brand storytelling
- 5 to 10 years of experience in scientific communication, claims substantiation, or R&D-marketing liaison roles, ideally in beauty/cosmetics or a related regulated industry
- Strong appetite for AI tools and agentic AI, with genuine curiosity for experimenting with AI-amplified projects
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English (French a plus)
- Creative thinker who challenges the status quo and looks for differentiating angles
- Solution- and business-oriented mindset; resourceful in finding answers when data isn't readily available
- Comfortable as both a strategic thinker and hands-on doer; flexible and able to adapt to shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Natural team player and cross-functional leader, able to build trust with scientific and non-scientific stakeholders
- Rigorous, tenacious, results-oriented, with strong project management skills
