Senior Product Developer

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Senior Product Developer for our Technical Center in Neenah, WI.

This is a position within the Tissue, Towel and Napkin product development team supporting both Retail and Away from Home businesses.

This opportunity will allow you to combine your technical expertise, leadership skills, creativity, and entrepreneurship to have a direct impact on business performance.

If you have a passion for connecting technical solutions with business and consumer needs, this could be the right opportunity for you!

Our Team

Our facility is Georgia-Pacific Innovation Institute® in Neenah, WI.

Neenah is located in the heart of Northeast Wisconsin (also known as the Fox Valley) and is within driving distance to popular metro locations including Milwaukee, WI, Chicago, IL, Madison, WI and Green Bay, WI.

The Fox Valley offers year-round recreation and attractions including 19 ski resorts with 100 miles, excellent shopping, and diversity in restaurants, music, and nightlife.

For families and nature lovers, the Fox Valley boasts a wealth of parks & wildlife refuges, excellent school districts, and other family-based activities.

The area also has attractions such as the Fox Valley Performing Arts Center in Appleton, EAA in Oshkosh, along with great fishing and boating on local lakes, rivers and within driving distance to Lake Michigan.

If you are sports fan, Lambeau field and Miller Park are within a short driving distance.

Living in the Fox Valley provides the diversity and amenities of a larger city with a strong sense of community.

We welcome you to explore what the Fox Valley could offer you!

What You Will Do


* Collaborate with Product Development Strategist and other capabilities to develop product specifications that meet feasibility, desirability and viability objectives through designed experimentation


* Translate market and consumer needs into product design, performance criteria, and technical specifications.


* Mitigate technical risk by designing and analyzing experiments, coordinating, and conducting mill trials, and collecting consumer/market feedback on product designs.


* Develop Intellectual Property through the creation of invention disclosures, patent applications and trade secrets by partnering with the Legal team.


* Solve complex problems, by exercising critical thought and approaching data analysis and potential recommended paths forward with a creative and open-minded approach


* Provide technical advice on claims, data substantiation, and overall product points of view to our business leaders, operations, manufacturing, sales, and marketing teams

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* Bachelor's Degree or higher in Paper Science, Material Science or Engineering


* Five (5) or more years' product development experience in paper products


* Experience working in an R&D environment with experience leading projects or experiments, product development activities, and ...