Technical Leader - Product

Technical Leader - Product

Job Description

Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional®.

 At Kimberly-Clark, it’s all here for you—innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact. 

You were made to create Better Care for a Better World: exploring uncharted questions, engineering innovative solutions, advancing scientific understanding, and constantly pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

You want to be part of a performance culture dedicated to solving real-world problems with purpose and precision.

You want to work in an environment that promotes sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

In this role, you’ll help us shape the future and improve lives for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU.

As the R&D Huggies Technical communication Leader, you will lead the external communication of the Huggies diapers and wipes product features, performance, and benefits.

As a member of the R&D Team, you will collaborate with the R&D project teams, Brand teams, and cross functionals including legal in order to develop product demonstrations with the appropriate substantiation.

About You

In one of our R&D roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center.

Job responsibilities include:


* Develop product innovation stories (key messages & scripts) for use externally with customers, including live and video product demonstrations.


* Where needed, write the brief to create any benefit visualization or sizzle videos for customer meetings.


* Partner closely with R&D and brand teams to ensure the customer storyline is complementary to overarching brand & customer strategies and stories, and not duplicative.


* Partner with Diaper & Wipes R&D project and brand innovation teams to develop the product demonstrations


* Ensure all storylines are substantiated for the intended use, i.e.

R&D has data to support, legal is aligned to the supporting data


* Present technical product design and performance demos for key customer meetings including customer summits, agencies, and Product 101s.

To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

Required Qualifications


* Bachelor’s degree


* 10 years or more of significant product development experience with consumer products


* Demonstrated ability to influence leaders

Preferred (not essential, but desired):


* Stellar presenter, engaging with the audience


* Able to understand the technical R&D innovation, while also translating that to simple and compelling stories to use in front of external customers


* Ability to adjust on the fly – this person will need to shift priorities in the heat of the moment depending on schedules, questions, etc.


* Knowledge of technical product innovation, cust...