Hiring: Vice President of Research and Development Company: Nutrastrips Location: Draper, UT Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 13:00:15 Employment Type: Contract / On-site Target Skills & Keywords : R About the job Experience: •10+ years of R&D leadership experience, ideally in thin-film technologies (ODF/transdermal), oral delivery systems, or novel nutraceutical dosage forms. Required Skills: •Strategic Product Innovation: Lead the product development pipeline for oral dissolving films, leveraging proprietary polymer matrices to deliver dietary supplements, botanical extracts, and therapeutic efficiently. •Peptide Formulation & Stability: Overcome complex technical challenges specific to peptide delivery in film formats, including maintaining structural integrity, preventing enzymatic degradation, optimizing buccal bioavailability, and achieving target disintegration times. •Process Engineering & Scale-Up: Work directly with our process engineers on technology transfer from lab-scale casting to continuous roll-to-roll drying, slitting, and primary packaging operations; optimize viscosity, drying profiles, tensile strength, and mass uniformity across production runs. •Organoleptic & Matrix Optimization: Resolve taste-masking issues inherent to active and concentrated nutrients while optimizing strip mechanical properties (flexibility, dissolution rate, moisture content). •Regulatory & Quality Compliance: Oversee formulation compliance under FDA 21 CFR Part 111 (cGMP), FTC guidelines, and DSHEA regulations, ensuring all active ingredients, excipients, and label claims meet global standards. •Intellectual Property & Clinical Validation: Drive IP creation for novel film platforms, stability enhancement methods, and API loading techniques; design pilot kinetic and mucosal permeability studies. •Stability Testing Infrastructure: Establishing real-time and accelerated stability programs specific to sensitive peptides and film strip shelf-lives. •Competitive Intelligence: Benchmarking competitor patents and alternative delivery systems (liposomes, sprays, micro-encapsulation) to keep the company's film tech ahead of the curve. Qualifications: •Chemistry Knowledge: Solid understanding of API degradation pathways, peptide-polymer interactions, mucosal absorption enhancers, and analytical methods (HPLC, LC-MS) for peptide quantification. •Regulatory Mastery: Deep operational knowledge of FDA 21 CFR Part 111 (cGMP for Dietary Supplements), DSHEA compliance, and raw material qualification for novel actives. •Leadership: Proven track record of scaling novel drug or supplement delivery platforms from concept to commercial execution in a CDMO/CMO or proprietary manufacturing environment. •Direct experience with sublingual and buccal transmucosal delivery mechanisms. •Deep network of specialized peptide synthesis partners, specialty polymer vendors, and contract testing facilities. •Strong business acumen with the ability to articulate technical innovation to investors, executive leadership, and commercial partners. •Film Casting Expertise: Hands-on technical mastery of solvent-casting techniques, film-forming polymers (e.g., HPMC, pullulan, alginates), plasticizer optimization, and continuous coating equipment. Compensation: •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!