DAME | B Corp®

Product Development Manager – Dame Labs Lead

DAME | B Corp®
Posted 10/21/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • United StatesSenior💰 $85,000 - $95,000 per yearWebsite
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Demonstrates expertise in product development and project management, with a strong focus on human-centered design and community engagement. Proficient in utilizing AI tools for synthesizing feedback and managing complex projects.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Product DevelopmentProject ManagementUser ResearchCommunity EngagementAI Tools Utilization

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Run Dame Labs by growing the tester community and establishing engaging trial processes
  • Conduct customer interviews, in-home studies and tester panels
  • Design and run surveys and turn results into recommendations
  • Plan and host focus groups, co-design workshops and community nights, both in person and online
  • Present evidence-backed recommendations to leadership on future products
  • Project manage product development from design and prototyping through testing, doctor approval and production
  • Chase samples, keep manufacturers on schedule, and clarify timelines, owners and decisions
  • Manage and hold accountable the engineer, industrial designer and testing lead
  • Own the product roadmap and run the biweekly product meeting
  • Apply human-centered design by centering real bodies, stories and needs
  • Use AI and agents to synthesize interviews, monitor reviews and community feedback, and automate project management

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 3+ years close to how physical products get made and who they're for; experience may come from industrial design, engineering, product marketing, product development or research
  • Experience talking to customers, running surveys or tests, and changing decisions based on findings
  • Track record of keeping projects with many moving parts on track
  • Comfortable holding designers and engineers to deadlines
  • Daily use of AI tools at work and opinions about agents
  • Comfortable openly discussing bodies and pleasure
  • Desire to take on a big job early and earn it
  • Bonus: experience with physical products, especially in wellness, beauty, personal care or consumer hardware
  • Bonus: formal user research training
  • Bonus: experience building or running a community, beta panel or events program
  • Bonus: startup experience building things from scratch
  • Resume required
  • Short note explaining why you are right for Dame Labs
  • Example of one product or project shipped and what you would do differently

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • $85K–$95K base, depending on experience
  • Full-time, hybrid in New York
  • Direct work with the founder
  • Real ownership of product development
  • Opportunity to see products brought to retail shelves at Target
  • Customer research shaping company products
  • Reports to the CEO & Founder

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Hard Skills
Product DesignSurvey DesignData AnalysisPrototypingFocus Group FacilitationCustomer InterviewsHuman-Centered DesignProject SchedulingRecommendation PresentationManufacturing Coordination
Soft Skills
CommunicationAccountabilityCollaborationAdaptabilityLeadership
Tools & Technologies
AI ToolsProject Management SoftwareSurvey PlatformsDesign Software
Certifications & Qualifications
User Research Training
Industry Keywords
Consumer HardwareWellnessBeautyPersonal CareStartup Experience