Senior / Principal Scientist, Ingredient Development at Kingdom · LumiJobs

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Kingdom’s next stage of growth depends on bringing more Superculture® ingredients into customers’ products. That requires rigorous evidence of how our ingredients work, perform in formulations, and withstand manufacturing and storage. We’re building a dedicated scientific function to lead that work and help customers evaluate and adopt our ingredients.
As Senior or Principal Scientist, Ingredient Development, you will lead our in vitro validation function, combining scientific direction with hands-on execution. You’ll determine which questions matter most, choose the experiments that answer them, and use the results to guide development. Your work will connect scientific judgment with practical decisions about how ingredients are developed and used.
You’ll work closely with bioprocess, clinical development, regulatory, and commercial colleagues to connect laboratory findings with customer needs. This means helping colleagues and customers understand what the evidence establishes, where uncertainty remains, and what further work would support adoption. Scientific leadership and collaboration will be central to your impact.
This is an opportunity to shape how Kingdom develops ingredients across a growing portfolio. Success means rigorous, timely validation and clear evidence that supports customer evaluation. You’ll expand your leadership through scientific direction and mentoring, while remaining involved in the experimental work that moves ingredients forward.
If you join, you will:
Lead in vitro validation across projects
Own the in vitro validation strategy across ingredient programs, identify evidence gaps, and design and execute studies of efficacy, safety, mechanisms of action, stability, shelf-life, and analytical characterization, including comparisons with other ingredients.
Plan and coordinate external testing with contract research organizations (CROs), defining study designs, deliverables, and timelines. Assess data quality and interpret findings to guide ingredient development.
Lead formulation development, working with the bioprocess team to account for manufacturing processes and requirements as production scales.
Connect technical development to customer needs
Maintain a shared database of ingredient evidence, contributions across teams, and remaining gaps. Translate findings into technical materials, formulation guidance, and safety and stability documentation, coordinating scientific, safety, and regulatory review.
Help the commercial team explain ingredient efficacy, safety, and mechanisms of action to customers, engaging independently as experience allows. Together, turn customer feedback into development priorities, distinguishing immediate adoption barriers from longer-term needs.

Senior / Principal Scientist, Ingredient Development

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