Kitchen Operations Associate
Eclipse Foods
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You’re going to be an integral part of the team bringing the next massive plant-based food brand to market. You’ll help new products come to life and will ensure our product development kitchen at our HQ runs smoothly. Our product development team is constantly experimenting with and scaling new recipes, and you will ensure our team can innovate and create new formulas as quickly as possible. You will scale recipes, order ingredients, coordinate shipments of sales samples, organize the kitchen, and much more. This hands-on role perfectly matches your scrappiness, strong work ethic, attention to detail, experience in kitchens, and interest in improving your product development skills. Our team is growing rapidly, and you’re ready to be a part of it!
Who are you?
You have internship or full-time experience working on a product development team for a food company and you excel in startup-like settings
You have worked in kitchens and thrive in back-of-house operations. You take downtime as an opportunity to learn new skills or tidy up the kitchen
You are organized and always pay attention to details
You thrive in ambiguous situations. You take ownership and create solutions to problems, before being asked
You’re a great person, in and out of work. You are smart, proactive, trustworthy, kind, humble, organized, and hard-working
You’re incredibly passionate about your work. You care deeply about changing our food system and want to help make it happen
Who are we?
We’re the next massive plant-based food company, revolutionizing the $100B dairy sector. Our investors include the founder of Reddit, the creator of Gmail, Forerunner, Y Combinator, and the former chairman of the board of Daiya Foods
We’re behind some of the best selling plant-based products in the world (JUST Mayo, for example)
We’re on a mission to save our planet, our health, and animals by creating a solution to fix the food system
We’re people of integrity. We do what we say we will do, we treat others right, we care deeply about those around us, and we put our hearts into our work
What will you do?
Scale recipes to expedite the process of testing new Eclipse formulas and flavors
Maintain ingredient and kitchen equipment inventory lists
Jump in to keep the kitchen / dish pit clean and organized
Learn from and work with some of the best food product developers in the world
Set up and break down our pilot production facility
And, of course, spin up the best plant-based ice cream out there and assist in sensory evaluations / shelf life studies (aka taste ice cream...for science!)
This is a full-time job based out of our office in Oakland, CA. We are diligently following local, state, and federal guidelines in order to provide a safe and healthy environment for our essential in-person team members.
Interested? Please send your resume to careers@eclipsefoods.com with the subject: The K.O.O.L. Role
Eclipse Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, and our customers. We are deeply committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.