Product Development Researcher

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TYPE OF WORK

Full Time

SALARY

TBC

HOURS PER WEEK

20

DATE UPDATED

Aug 27, 2026

JOB OVERVIEW

I'm Harrison. I run CoolTowel, we sell cooling towels. Most of our sales come through TikTok Shop and we're growing fast.

The towel is the hero product but I'm building a whole range around it. Cooling headbands and sweatbands, caps and cap linings, blankets, pillowcases, pet cooling vests, apparel, bigger towel sizes.

The part I care most about is consumables. Right now someone buys a towel once and doesn't need another for years. I want dissolvable pods you drop into the water before soaking the towel, some that make it colder and some that make it smell good. Towel is the razor, pods are the blades. After that, things like cooling wipes and sprays.

What I don't want is our logo stuck on generic products off Alibaba. Everything has to feel like it belongs to the same brand.

So this job is finding and vetting manufacturers, negotiating properly, running samples, and helping develop products that don't exist yet rather than just buying ones that do.

Three things if you're interested:

A link to your portfolio, website or examples of products you've sourced.
Take the pod idea. Where would you start looking for someone who could actually make it, and what would you ask them first? A short answer is fine, I want to see how you think about it.
Your monthly rate, your hours, and whether you've developed a product from scratch with a factory rather than ordering something that already existed.

Question two is what I actually care about.

Thanks, Harrison

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