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Colorado's product lead roles are concentrated in Denver's thriving tech sector, with major employers like Palantir, Ibotta, and Arrow Electronics regularly hiring for senior product positions. Boulder's startup ecosystem adds further demand, and the state's growing healthtech and aerospace industries mean product leads with domain expertise are well-positioned to find sponsorship opportunities here.
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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 Lead Jobs in ColoradoProduct Lead Jobs in Colorado: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies in Colorado sponsor visas for product leads?
Denver-based companies including Palantir Technologies, Ibotta, and Havenly have sponsored product lead roles in recent years. Larger employers like Arrow Electronics, DaVita, and Trimble also maintain active sponsorship programs. Boulder's startup community, including companies in SaaS and edtech, sponsors product roles as well, though sponsorship frequency varies by company size and hiring cycle.
Which visa types are most common for product lead roles in Colorado?
The H-1B visa is the most common visa for product lead roles in Colorado, as product management is generally considered a specialty occupation requiring a bachelor's degree or higher in a related field. L-1B intracompany transferee visas apply when candidates transfer from a foreign affiliate into a product role. O-1 visas are an option for candidates with documented exceptional achievements in product or technology.
Which cities in Colorado have the most product lead sponsorship jobs?
Denver accounts for the largest share of product lead sponsorship jobs in Colorado, driven by its concentration of established tech companies and corporate headquarters. Boulder follows closely, supported by a dense startup ecosystem and proximity to the University of Colorado. Colorado Springs has a smaller but growing presence, particularly in defense technology and government contracting-adjacent product roles.
How to find product lead visa sponsorship jobs in Colorado?
Migrate Mate filters job listings specifically by visa sponsorship, making it straightforward to find product lead roles in Colorado without sorting through positions that don't offer sponsorship. You can search by location and role type to surface companies actively hiring sponsored product leads in Denver, Boulder, and beyond. Focusing on employers with prior H-1B filing history in product management improves your chances of a serious conversation.
Are there any Colorado-specific considerations for product leads seeking visa sponsorship?
Colorado's Equal Pay for Equal Work Act requires employers to post compensation ranges publicly, which gives sponsored candidates useful context when evaluating offers against Department of Labor prevailing wage requirements for H-1B petitions. The state's strong pipeline from CU Boulder and Colorado State University in computer science and engineering also means competition for product lead roles can be high, particularly at mid-market tech companies in the Denver-Boulder corridor.
What is the prevailing wage for sponsored product lead 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.