Associate Manager, Culinary R&D - Daily Harvest

Location: NYC-Based Preferred.

About Daily Harvest 

At Daily Harvest we take care of food, so food can take care of you. We're committed to helping you nourish your body while taking care of the planet. How? By making it easy to eat more real, unrefined and sustainably sourced fruits and vegetables every day.  Our team is collaborative, driven, and future-thinking.  We're constantly learning, experimenting, and iterating, and celebrate failure just as much as success. We take risks, try new things, and we get things done. We love adaptogens and cruciferous vegetables but never say no to cake. Everything we do, we do in the service of our community.

Position Overview

DUTIES: Responsible for managing the Culinary R&D team with ingredient management, new product development, and existing product optimization. Lead the company's Commercialization team and co-manufacturers to scale up food, working with the company's FSQA team to set quality parameters and specs around each recipe for production facilities to follow, and enabling all necessary testing and validation required for a successful new product launch. Oversee the company's ingredient inventory and work with the Procurement team to receive, record and evaluate the taste, quality, sensory attributes, and nutrition of new ingredients

SALARY: $75,000 per year

WORK SCHEDULE:       40 hours per week (8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.)

JOB REQUIREMENTS:  Position requires an Master’s in Food Safety and 1 year of experience as Quality Control Technician or Laboratory Assistant. Prior experience must include working with culinary, alcoholic beverage or food safety teams to determine and execute solutions, drive efficiencies and implement quality improvements in response to observed product issues and gaps.

Benefits:

• Flexible PTO Plan + working hours
• Equity participation + 401K
• Competitive medical, dental, + vision insurance
• Virtual and IRL team building events and activities (social hours, L&D opportunities, celebrations, and more)
• Ancillary benefits: Commuter, Citi Bike discounts, + Health & Wellness Perks
• Discounted subscription to Daily Harvest (30% off) + free shipping
• Unlimited Daily Harvest in the office to keep you hustling, not hangry (...always stocked)

At Daily Harvest, our mission is to take care of food, so that food can take care of you. And it wouldn't be possible without our team. We celebrate the unique POV that each person brings to the table and believe in a collaborative and inclusive environment. As an equal opportunity employer, we prohibit any unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, military or veteran status, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability or genetic information. These are our guiding principles and apply across all aspects of employment

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