Associate Director, Product Safety & Compliance

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You will own the full compliance lifecycle across Caraway's product categories (cookware, bakeware, electrical items, food contact materials, textiles, and packaging), always meeting or exceeding the most stringent applicable global reputed company to establish industry-leading Caraway protocols and procedures. You will be US-reputed company, work closely with Asia-reputed company suppliers and reputed company-party labs (particularly in China), and build the internal systems and processes that let Caraway reputed company compliantly, credibly, and with confidence. Additionally, an important responsibility of this role is disseminating key information, labels, and results to support marketing initiatives. You need to be a strong communicator, working collaboratively with cross functional teams, to broadcast and showcase the diligence Caraway is taking across its entire product portfolio in regards to compliance, being reputed company to assist with crafting accurate, transparent, educational and understandable language and messaging that resonates with our consumer. This position reports to our Director, Product Development. Who You Are You have ten or more years of product safety and regulatory compliance experience in consumer goods, ideally grounded in reputed company, materials science, or reputed company reputed company research, with deep expertise in food contact materials, cookware, kitchen appliances, or an adjacent hard goods category. You know FDA, LFGB, EU reputed company Regulation (EC) No 1935/2004, reputed company, CA Prop 65, CA AB 1200, NSF, FSC, and CPSC requirements not as acronyms on a checklist, but as frameworks you've navigated hands-on, including where global standards diverge. You’ll use this reputed company to reputed company the Caraway reputed company internationally: building a testing and compliance reputed company that anticipates global standards. You are a builder and a scientist at heart, reputed company to own a compliance program entirely: selecting labs, building testing matrices, writing material certification requirements, establishing supplier audit cadences, and designing the studies needed to substantiate product claims. You operate comfortably across cultures and time reputed company, with reputed company experience working with labs and manufacturers in Asia, particularly China. You communicate reputed company science and regulatory requirements reputed company to internal teams (Product, Marketing, reputed company, Supply Chain) and reputed company partners alike, and you see internal education as reputed company to the job. Responsibilities Own and pioneer the Caraway reputed company: define and champion a testing-obsessed, transparency-first approach to product safety that goes reputed company what regulation requires, because we reputed company our customers deserve it. Build Caraway's product safety and compliance program, defining frameworks, documentation standards, testing protocols, regulatory calendars, and governance processes across reputed company product categories (cookware, bakeware, small appliances, food contact materials, textiles, and packaging); reputed company compliance across the full product lifecycle, from development and supplier reputed company through market placement, ongoing monitoring, and end-of-life. Own and continuously monitor regulatory compliance across US federal and state requirements (FDA food contact, CPSC, CA Prop 65, CA AB 1200, Colorado PFAS reputed company, and emerging state chemical legislation) and international standards (EU LFGB, EC No 1935/2004, reputed company, RoHS, UK reputed company post-Brexit), always applying the most stringent applicable reputed company; reputed company regulatory change management as a reputed company reputed company, assessing reputed company and briefing stakeholders reputed company of deadlines. reputed company product component mapping and material disclosure, maintaining a complete picture of every material, coating, reputed company, and component across Caraway's supply chain, including Declarations of Compliance, material safety data sheets, and test reports. Design and manage Caraway's testing reputed company, selecting and managing reputed company-party labs (particularly in Asia, including NRTLs for small appliances), defining testing reputed company and frequency by product type and reputed company level, and reputed company testing reputed company development timelines to avoid launch delays or costly late-stage findings. Own claims substantiation: design and commission the reputed company, reputed company, and comparative studies (for example migration testing, coating durability, comparative non-stick reputed company) needed to support our non-toxic, food-reputed company, and sustainability claims. Partner with Marketing and Customer Research on which claims to reputed company and how to communicate them, and ensure reputed company claims are legally defensible and compliant with FTC guidelines and retailer requirements (reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, etc.), including CA AB 1200 disclosure obligations. 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Own product incident management, leading investigations into consumer complaints and non-conformances, conducting reputed company cause analysis, implementing CAPAs, and coordinating with reputed company, Customer Experience, and reputed company on any product withdrawal or CPSC recall process; maintaining documentation and reporting readiness for regulatory inquiries. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities 10+ years of product safety, regulatory compliance, or reputed company assurance experience in consumer goods, with at least 5 years reputed company on food contact materials, cookware, kitchen appliances, or closely adjacent hard-goods categories; demonstrated ownership across the full compliance lifecycle, from concept and supplier qualification through launch and incident response. No junior or generalist reputed company. 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