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Colorado's product director roles are concentrated in Denver's booming tech corridor, with employers like Palantir, Ibotta, and Gusto actively hiring senior product leaders. Boulder's startup ecosystem and Colorado Springs' defense-tech sector add further opportunities. International candidates with strong product leadership backgrounds will find genuine demand here, particularly in SaaS, fintech, and data analytics.
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The Director, Product & Package Scale-Up, R&I co-leads (with R&I category leads) the successful technical execution of innovation, renovation, productivity, and sustainability projects across Danone’s categories and manufacturing network. This leader is accountable for building and deploying strong scale-up capabilities that enable projects to launch first time right, with end-to-end technical rigor across product, packaging, processing, quality, and manufacturing readiness.
This role serves as a critical bridge between R&I category teams, Packaging, Operations, Quality, Engineering, Procurement, Regulatory, and external manufacturing partners to ensure that new and renovated products are designed for manufacturability, validated with discipline, and scaled with speed, consistency, quality, and consumer-preferred performance.
The Director brings solid understanding of the full technical system of product formulation, package design/validation, process capability, line conditions, equipment interfaces, specifications, and plant execution. Will lead a team of Scientists and Engineers who provide hands-on technical leadership for scale-up strategy, trial design, risk mitigation, validation, troubleshooting, and commercialization readiness across dairy, plant-based, beverages, yogurt, creamers, and other key platforms.
Key Responsibilities
Lead Product, Package, and Process Scale-Up Excellence
- Own the end-to-end R&I scale-up execution for innovation and renovation projects, ensuring product, packaging, and process solutions are technically robust, scalable, safe, regulatory compliant, and consumer preferred.
- Co-lead technical commercialization with R&I category leaders and cross-functional partners for medium to high complexity/impact projects across Danone categories and manufacturing sites.
- Drive first-time-right execution through early technical risk assessment, design-to-scale thinking, clear success criteria, robust trial planning, and disciplined validation.
- Ensure projects are designed for manufacturability by integrating product attributes, packaging performance, processing conditions, equipment capability, quality requirements, and plant realities before scale-up.
Bring Packaging Expertise Into End-to-End Commercialization
- Provide strong technical leadership in packaging development, validation, materials, specifications, manufacturability, sustainability, and line performance to ensure packaging solutions support business growth and operational excellence.
- Strengthen packaging scale-up practices across concept creation, design, materials science, prototyping, testing, validation, commercialization, and lifecycle optimization.
- Partner with Packaging, Product Development, Operations, Engineering, Procurement, Quality, and suppliers to identify packaging solutions that deliver superior consumer experience while meeting manufacturing, cost, sustainability, and supply chain requirements.
- Ensure package design, product performance, and processing conditions come together as an integrated system, especially for complex launches requiring new formats, new materials, new line conditions, new equipment, or new manufacturing sites.
Deliver Innovation and Renovation Across the Manufacturing Network
- Lead R&I execution for innovation, renovation, productivity, and sustainability initiatives requiring scale-up across internal and external manufacturing facilities.
- Ensure manufacturing readiness through technical assessments, plant trial plans, validation protocols, start-up support, troubleshooting, and post-launch stabilization.
- Partner with Operations, QFS, R&I, and Engineering to deliver safe, cost-effective, scalable, and consumer-preferred products and packages.
- Drive consistent ways of working across sites to improve launch success, reduce rework, improve speed to market, and protect product and package quality at scale.
Build Strong Scale-Up Governance, Tools, and Standards
- Establish practical scale-up standards, governance routines, validation expectations, and performance measures to improve predictability from concept to commercialization.
- Strengthen technical documentation, trial reports, risk assessments, specifications, traceability, and launch readiness reviews across the product and package scale-up portfolio.
- Partner with Specs, Quality, Regulatory, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing teams to ensure product, packaging, raw material, process, and label specifications are accurate, governed, and fit for commercialization.
- Use data, plant learnings, and post-launch performance to continuously improve scale-up approaches, avoid repeat issues, and build organizational capability.
Lead, Develop, and Inspire a Senior Technical Team
- Lead a high-performing team of Scientists and Engineers, building technical depth, accountability, collaboration, and enterprise influence.
- Set portfolio priorities, allocate technical resources, coach project leaders, and ensure the team is focused on the highest-impact scale-up risks and business-critical launches.
- Build capability in product-package-process integration, plant trial excellence, packaging manufacturability, validation, root cause problem solving, and technical storytelling.
- Foster a culture of technical rigor, learning, simplification, and constructive challenge so teams can anticipate risks early and solve problems with speed and discipline.
The salary range for this position is $149,000-214,000 USD. The exact salary offered will depend on several factors, including the candidate’s relevant experience, geographic location, internal equity, and market conditions. Danone North America additionally offers a performance-based bonus and has a strong benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription Drug Coverage, 401k Plan, Wellness Program, Life Insurance, Tuition Reimbursement, Flexible Time Off, and Paid Parental Bonding Leave, among other benefit plan options. To give our employees flexibility, Danone is a hybrid work environment.
This role is considered a “hybrid” position that allows for flexible work, meaning it is a role where collaboration with key stakeholders in Danone Hubs occurs. While you may have the option to work from home on a schedule as agreed to with your supervisor, you are also expected to regularly report to your assigned office location at least 3 days per week.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Packaging Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Food Science, Food Engineering, Materials Science, or related technical field. MS/PhD preferred.
- 10-15+ years of progressive experience in packaging, product development, process engineering, scale-up, commercialization, or manufacturing within food, beverage, CPG, or related process industries.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex cross-functional technical programs involving R&I, Packaging, Marketing, Operations, Engineering, Procurement, Quality, Regulatory, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and external partners.
- Strong packaging technical depth, including materials, package functionality, validation, manufacturability, sustainability, supplier engagement, specifications, and launch execution.
- Strong understanding of product and process scale-up, including pilot and plant trials, unit operations, line performance, quality systems, process capability, and technical troubleshooting.
- Ability to lead through ambiguity, make timely technical decisions, translate complexity into clear recommendations, and influence senior stakeholders across a matrixed organization.
- Experience building technical roadmaps, risk mitigation plans, validation strategies, and commercialization readiness routines that improve speed, quality, and business impact.
- Strong business acumen, with understanding of R&I value levers including growth, productivity, quality, risk mitigation, sustainability, consumer experience, speed to market, and cost position.
- Strong leadership, coaching, communication, and storytelling skills, with the ability to develop senior technical talent and align cross-functional teams behind clear execution priorities.
- Ability to travel to manufacturing sites, suppliers, external manufacturers, and other technical locations as needed to support scale-up, validation, troubleshooting, and launch readiness (approx. 20-30% travel).
LIFE AT DANONE
With approximately 5,000 employees and 13 production locations across the U.S., our vibrant culture and endless growth opportunities are just a couple of the reasons our employees call themselves “Proud Danoners.”
OUR BRANDS
When you join us, you’ll work with some of the best-known food and beverage brands in the world, including Activia®, DanActive®, Danimals®, Dannon®, evian®, Follow Your Heart®, Happy Family® Organics, International Delight®, Light + Fit®, Nutricia®, Oikos®, Silk®, So Delicious® Dairy Free, STōK® Cold Brew Coffee®, Too Good & Co™, and YoCrunch®.
OUR PURPOSE
We’re committed to making a positive impact on our world. Rooted in our mission to bring health through food to as many people as possible, we’re proud to be the world’s largest B Corp.
OUR BENEFITS
Our commitment to making the world healthier starts with our employees.
- Physical Wellbeing: We pay for the majority of your medical benefits – which include medical, dental and vision – with our competitive 80%/20% cost-sharing model.
- Mental Wellbeing: Danoners receive fitness discounts, unlimited flexible time off and hybrid work schedules. We also have a range of programs that support mental health and substance abuse.
- Financial Support: We offer a performance-based bonus, a 401(k) plan, tuition reimbursement, employee discount programs and voluntary perks.
- Family Care: We offer caretaker benefits, 18 weeks of parental bonding, fertility, surrogacy, adoption benefits and pet insurance.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
Danone North America is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. It is our policy to give equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to legally protected characteristics, or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state/provincial and/or local law. For our EEO policy statement and your EEO rights under law click here.
INTRODUCTION
The Director, Product & Package Scale-Up, R&I co-leads (with R&I category leads) the successful technical execution of innovation, renovation, productivity, and sustainability projects across Danone’s categories and manufacturing network. This leader is accountable for building and deploying strong scale-up capabilities that enable projects to launch first time right, with end-to-end technical rigor across product, packaging, processing, quality, and manufacturing readiness.
This role serves as a critical bridge between R&I category teams, Packaging, Operations, Quality, Engineering, Procurement, Regulatory, and external manufacturing partners to ensure that new and renovated products are designed for manufacturability, validated with discipline, and scaled with speed, consistency, quality, and consumer-preferred performance.
The Director brings solid understanding of the full technical system of product formulation, package design/validation, process capability, line conditions, equipment interfaces, specifications, and plant execution. Will lead a team of Scientists and Engineers who provide hands-on technical leadership for scale-up strategy, trial design, risk mitigation, validation, troubleshooting, and commercialization readiness across dairy, plant-based, beverages, yogurt, creamers, and other key platforms.
Key Responsibilities
Lead Product, Package, and Process Scale-Up Excellence
- Own the end-to-end R&I scale-up execution for innovation and renovation projects, ensuring product, packaging, and process solutions are technically robust, scalable, safe, regulatory compliant, and consumer preferred.
- Co-lead technical commercialization with R&I category leaders and cross-functional partners for medium to high complexity/impact projects across Danone categories and manufacturing sites.
- Drive first-time-right execution through early technical risk assessment, design-to-scale thinking, clear success criteria, robust trial planning, and disciplined validation.
- Ensure projects are designed for manufacturability by integrating product attributes, packaging performance, processing conditions, equipment capability, quality requirements, and plant realities before scale-up.
Bring Packaging Expertise Into End-to-End Commercialization
- Provide strong technical leadership in packaging development, validation, materials, specifications, manufacturability, sustainability, and line performance to ensure packaging solutions support business growth and operational excellence.
- Strengthen packaging scale-up practices across concept creation, design, materials science, prototyping, testing, validation, commercialization, and lifecycle optimization.
- Partner with Packaging, Product Development, Operations, Engineering, Procurement, Quality, and suppliers to identify packaging solutions that deliver superior consumer experience while meeting manufacturing, cost, sustainability, and supply chain requirements.
- Ensure package design, product performance, and processing conditions come together as an integrated system, especially for complex launches requiring new formats, new materials, new line conditions, new equipment, or new manufacturing sites.
Deliver Innovation and Renovation Across the Manufacturing Network
- Lead R&I execution for innovation, renovation, productivity, and sustainability initiatives requiring scale-up across internal and external manufacturing facilities.
- Ensure manufacturing readiness through technical assessments, plant trial plans, validation protocols, start-up support, troubleshooting, and post-launch stabilization.
- Partner with Operations, QFS, R&I, and Engineering to deliver safe, cost-effective, scalable, and consumer-preferred products and packages.
- Drive consistent ways of working across sites to improve launch success, reduce rework, improve speed to market, and protect product and package quality at scale.
Build Strong Scale-Up Governance, Tools, and Standards
- Establish practical scale-up standards, governance routines, validation expectations, and performance measures to improve predictability from concept to commercialization.
- Strengthen technical documentation, trial reports, risk assessments, specifications, traceability, and launch readiness reviews across the product and package scale-up portfolio.
- Partner with Specs, Quality, Regulatory, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing teams to ensure product, packaging, raw material, process, and label specifications are accurate, governed, and fit for commercialization.
- Use data, plant learnings, and post-launch performance to continuously improve scale-up approaches, avoid repeat issues, and build organizational capability.
Lead, Develop, and Inspire a Senior Technical Team
- Lead a high-performing team of Scientists and Engineers, building technical depth, accountability, collaboration, and enterprise influence.
- Set portfolio priorities, allocate technical resources, coach project leaders, and ensure the team is focused on the highest-impact scale-up risks and business-critical launches.
- Build capability in product-package-process integration, plant trial excellence, packaging manufacturability, validation, root cause problem solving, and technical storytelling.
- Foster a culture of technical rigor, learning, simplification, and constructive challenge so teams can anticipate risks early and solve problems with speed and discipline.
The salary range for this position is $149,000-214,000 USD. The exact salary offered will depend on several factors, including the candidate’s relevant experience, geographic location, internal equity, and market conditions. Danone North America additionally offers a performance-based bonus and has a strong benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription Drug Coverage, 401k Plan, Wellness Program, Life Insurance, Tuition Reimbursement, Flexible Time Off, and Paid Parental Bonding Leave, among other benefit plan options. To give our employees flexibility, Danone is a hybrid work environment.
This role is considered a “hybrid” position that allows for flexible work, meaning it is a role where collaboration with key stakeholders in Danone Hubs occurs. While you may have the option to work from home on a schedule as agreed to with your supervisor, you are also expected to regularly report to your assigned office location at least 3 days per week.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Packaging Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Food Science, Food Engineering, Materials Science, or related technical field. MS/PhD preferred.
- 10-15+ years of progressive experience in packaging, product development, process engineering, scale-up, commercialization, or manufacturing within food, beverage, CPG, or related process industries.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex cross-functional technical programs involving R&I, Packaging, Marketing, Operations, Engineering, Procurement, Quality, Regulatory, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and external partners.
- Strong packaging technical depth, including materials, package functionality, validation, manufacturability, sustainability, supplier engagement, specifications, and launch execution.
- Strong understanding of product and process scale-up, including pilot and plant trials, unit operations, line performance, quality systems, process capability, and technical troubleshooting.
- Ability to lead through ambiguity, make timely technical decisions, translate complexity into clear recommendations, and influence senior stakeholders across a matrixed organization.
- Experience building technical roadmaps, risk mitigation plans, validation strategies, and commercialization readiness routines that improve speed, quality, and business impact.
- Strong business acumen, with understanding of R&I value levers including growth, productivity, quality, risk mitigation, sustainability, consumer experience, speed to market, and cost position.
- Strong leadership, coaching, communication, and storytelling skills, with the ability to develop senior technical talent and align cross-functional teams behind clear execution priorities.
- Ability to travel to manufacturing sites, suppliers, external manufacturers, and other technical locations as needed to support scale-up, validation, troubleshooting, and launch readiness (approx. 20-30% travel).
LIFE AT DANONE
With approximately 5,000 employees and 13 production locations across the U.S., our vibrant culture and endless growth opportunities are just a couple of the reasons our employees call themselves “Proud Danoners.”
OUR BRANDS
When you join us, you’ll work with some of the best-known food and beverage brands in the world, including Activia®, DanActive®, Danimals®, Dannon®, evian®, Follow Your Heart®, Happy Family® Organics, International Delight®, Light + Fit®, Nutricia®, Oikos®, Silk®, So Delicious® Dairy Free, STōK® Cold Brew Coffee®, Too Good & Co™, and YoCrunch®.
OUR PURPOSE
We’re committed to making a positive impact on our world. Rooted in our mission to bring health through food to as many people as possible, we’re proud to be the world’s largest B Corp.
OUR BENEFITS
Our commitment to making the world healthier starts with our employees.
- Physical Wellbeing: We pay for the majority of your medical benefits – which include medical, dental and vision – with our competitive 80%/20% cost-sharing model.
- Mental Wellbeing: Danoners receive fitness discounts, unlimited flexible time off and hybrid work schedules. We also have a range of programs that support mental health and substance abuse.
- Financial Support: We offer a performance-based bonus, a 401(k) plan, tuition reimbursement, employee discount programs and voluntary perks.
- Family Care: We offer caretaker benefits, 18 weeks of parental bonding, fertility, surrogacy, adoption benefits and pet insurance.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
Danone North America is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. It is our policy to give equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to legally protected characteristics, or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state/provincial and/or local law. For our EEO policy statement and your EEO rights under law click here.
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Search Product Director Jobs in ColoradoProduct Director Jobs in Colorado: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies in Colorado sponsor visas for product directors?
Established tech employers in Colorado with a track record of visa sponsorship for senior product roles include Palantir Technologies (Denver), Ibotta, Gusto, and Zayo Group. Larger national employers with significant Colorado offices, such as Google's Boulder campus and Amazon Web Services, also sponsor product directors. Defense and aerospace firms in Colorado Springs, including Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, hire product directors and have sponsored work visas for technical leadership roles.
Which visa types are most common for product director roles in Colorado?
The H-1B visa is the most common visa category for product directors in Colorado, as the role typically qualifies as a specialty occupation requiring a bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field such as computer science, engineering, or business. Candidates with extraordinary ability in product leadership may qualify for the O-1A. Multinational product leaders transferring within a company to a Colorado office may be eligible for the L-1A, which covers managers and executives.
Which cities in Colorado have the most product director sponsorship jobs?
Denver is by far the most active market for product director sponsorship jobs in Colorado, driven by its concentration of SaaS companies, fintech startups, and large tech campuses. Boulder is a strong secondary market, particularly for venture-backed product roles. Colorado Springs has a smaller but growing presence, primarily in defense technology and cybersecurity product management. Remote-eligible roles posted by Colorado-based employers are also increasingly common across all three cities.
How to find product director visa sponsorship jobs in Colorado?
Migrate Mate is the most direct way to find product director roles in Colorado where employers are open to visa sponsorship. The platform filters specifically for sponsoring employers, so you're not sifting through listings that won't support an H-1B or other work visa. Colorado's tech sector moves quickly, so filtering by Denver and Boulder and setting up alerts for product director openings on Migrate Mate helps you respond to new postings early.
Are there any Colorado-specific considerations for product directors seeking visa sponsorship?
Colorado's Equal Pay for Equal Work Act requires employers to disclose compensation ranges in job postings, which gives international candidates more transparency when evaluating whether an offer meets prevailing wage requirements for H-1B purposes. Colorado also has a strong university pipeline through CU Boulder and Colorado State, which means employers are accustomed to hiring candidates who need OPT or visa sponsorship. Product directors in regulated industries like defense contracting should confirm security clearance implications before applying.
What is the prevailing wage for sponsored product director jobs in Colorado?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.