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FOOD STARTUP SALES, MARKETING & CUSTOMER SERVICE JOB OPENININGS

1. Full-Stack Marketer at Mealmade – San Francisco, CA

Position: Mealmade is looking for a data-driven, creative, tech-savvy, experienced full-stack marketer to join our growing team. Our mission is to make exceptionally healthy eating as easy and delicious as possible. We deliver restaurant-quality, expertly crafted meals into the hands of those who value their time and health. We are a delivery-only restaurant for healthy, delicious food, and we’re growing fast. We’re looking for someone who can pour fuel on the fire and accelerate our growth. In this role, you will lead all aspects of marketing, with a focus on customer acquisition. You will work autonomously (and remotely much of the time), with oversight and guidance from the CEO.

About Mealmade: Mealmade is an on-demand delivery-only restaurant that cooks and delivers unique, delicious meals made for special diets, like gluten-free, paleo, low carb, etc. Customers order in a few clicks from a daily rotating menu and their food arrives hot and ready to eat in about 30 minutes. While 99% of restaurants and food delivery companies target the 60% of consumers who are “normal eaters”, the 40% of Americans with special diets or food restrictions are completely underserved, and this group spends over $7B every year on food in the Bay Area alone. Since launching in October 2015, Mealmade has seen consistent growth. Throughout 2016 the company has grown ~20% month-over-month.

2. Associate Manager of Brand Content at FoodKick – New York, NY

Position: The Associate Manager, Brand Content is a freelance position that will report to the Integrated Content Manager and be responsible for creating content to support FoodKick’s integrated marketing strategy. The candidate must consistently represent the brand’s tone and drive appropriate response in each marketing channel. The position requires approximately 20 hours per week and the candidate must be willing to work alongside the team at the FreshDirect corporate offices in Long Island City.

About FoodKick: FoodKick is a sister brand of FreshDirect, delivering fresh food + cold booze in as little as 1 hour. When all you have is a New York minute. When life happens (the good or bad, happy or sad!). When you want to make the most of the moment. FoodKick’s got your back. We deliver just what you need when you need it, like quick meal hacks, chilled wine, exclusive products from local partners, fresh fill-ins, and even TP. And because we’re powered by FreshDirect, you can trust our quality and convenience. We’re all about curating food + booze just for you. Our home feed changes every day, throughout the day–thoughtfully hand-picked by our team to fit with your life. (No scientific algorithm here). Did we just become best friends? YUP. FoodKick is ready when you are. And we’ll be there in as little as 1 hour.

3. Director of Sales at Little Spoon – Virtual; San Francisco, CA

Position: We are looking for an enthusiastic, high-energy go-getter to join our founding team and take on all aspects of retail and wholesale sales for Little Spoon. You are persuasive and have proven experience and success selling premium products. You are a fearless hustler who views every challenge as an opportunity – and you are undeterred by the challenge of pioneering a new category and building a brand from the ground up. You are detail-oriented but can effectively think and communicate at a high level. You are analytical and technically savvy.  You are a self-starter capable of working independently while wearing many hats. You have a passion for inspiring internal and external teams and helping people around you reach their potential. You intuitively roll up your sleeves and get sh*t done while managing to have fun in the process. You love good food and are passionate about health and wellness. You love a good challenge. And you’re ready for your next one.

About Little Spoon: At Little Spoon, we believe your baby’s food should never be older than your baby. We’re a rapidly growing startup set to revolutionize the baby food category and beyond. Our vision is to bring nutritious meals and snacks to babies and children everywhere through a convenient, direct-to-consumer subscription model and select retail stores nationally.

4. Customer Experience Associate at Little Spoon – San Francisco, CA

Position: We are looking for a savvy, people-loving problem solver to join our founding team and take on all aspects of customer experience for Little Spoon. You’ll be the voice of Little Spoon and communicate directly with our customers to solve real-time issues, answer questions and respond to feedback. You are detail-oriented, outgoing and an excellent communicator. You can multi-task and prioritize like nobody’s business. You have experience delivering outstanding customer support and inspiring others. You are constantly trying to find ways to hack life, organize the chaos and optimize the world around you. You intuitively roll up your sleeves and get sh*t done while managing to have fun in the process. You love good food and are passionate about health and wellness. You love a good challenge. And you’re ready for your next one.

About Little Spoon: At Little Spoon, we believe your baby’s food should never be older than your baby. We’re a rapidly growing startup set to revolutionize the baby food category and beyond. Our vision is to bring nutritious meals and snacks to babies and children everywhere through a convenient, direct-to-consumer subscription model and select retail stores nationally.

5. Area Sales Manager at Health-Ade Kombucha – San Francisco, CA

Position: The Health-Ade Area Sales Manager is responsible for managing and maintaining relationships with accounts in Northern California. This role is accountable for driving sales while translating Health-Ade’s philosophy and objectives.

About Health-Ade Kombucha: Health-Ade was founded by a husband, a wife, and a best friend—all looking to bring the best kombucha to the Southern California marketplace.Founded in their small apartment in Los Angeles—with a tiny credit card and a big dream—Health-Ade is made the “old-fashioned” way, as nature intended. They are fully dedicated to offering the highest quality and best tasting kombucha you can buy. They do this by committing to things like:pulling out all the stops to ensure the culture is healthy and strong, using only the best ingredients available (like organic and seasonal farmers’market cold-pressed fruit for flavoring), and keeping harmful plastic and UVs away from the entire fermentation and bottling process (yes, they make it all in glass!). Hand-crafted in small batches right here in Los Angeles, Health-Ade also works hard to support the local community, as demonstrated by their efforts in growing Farmers’ Markets and partnering with farms, their collaboration with regional non-profits, and their drive to increase understanding and importance of natural health and wellness(check out their blog).

6. Digital Marketing Manager at FreshRealm – Ventura, CA

Position: Our Marketing Team is ready to add an ambitious Digital Marketing & Growth Manager to lead growth marketing and conversation rate optimization for our fast growing startup.

About FreshRealm: FreshRealm is an early stage company founded 3 years ago.  We have substantial funding and strategic partnership agreements with two well respected publicly traded companies:  Calavo Growers, Inc. and Orora. Our mission is to bring healthy, fresh food to the masses in innovative ways that saves time and reduces waste.  We do this by offering the largest online marketplace with national delivery of fresh foods (lunches, snacks, salads, fruit, juices) and curated ready-to-cook DIY meal kits that are designed by celebrity chefs and prominent tastemakers. Because of our strategic partners, we are the only player that can operate a business like this at scale with a large variety of recipes and a large number of tastemakers, and no one in the U.S. can match our technology and food systems-infrastructure.

7. Business Development Representative at Toast – Boston, MA

Position: Toast is seeking a Business Development Representative to join our incredibly successful sales team.  Are you competitive, self-motivated and an overachiever? Do you have previous sales experience or are you looking to break into sales?

About Toast: Toast is more than just a restaurant POS system: it’s an all-in-one restaurant management solution. Thousands of restaurants have streamlined their front-of-house and kitchen processes, analyzed their customer base with our CRM, and saved millions of dollars with Toast’s restaurant POS system by their side.

8. Food Head (Head of Merchandizing) at Petrichor – New York, NY

Position: We’re looking for someone to help determine and manage the mix of 3,000 SKUs covering beverages, bakery, dairy, frozen, grocery, meat, produce, and personal care products that we’ll sell.

About Petrichor: A revolutionary new grocery store (think Amazon Go) targeted at Millennials and to be located in lower Manhattan.

9. Chief Marketing Officer at Seal The Seasons – Chapel Hill, NC

Position: Seal the Seasons’ Chief Marketing Officer will lead innovative marketing strategies and brand development, oversee revenue generation and data collection, and drive growth by overseeing customer acquisition and management. He or she will empower marketing staff on the ground, collaborate across departments to ensure consistent branding, and spread our food system nationwide.

About Seal the Seasons: We believe in a food economy that cares about farmers, employees and consumers. Seal the Seasons is a local food brand. Our first product line is locally grown frozen fruit and vegetables. We build transformative relationships with local farm partners, farmer-owned manufacturing, and retail partners, to sell local food year-round through retail and foodservice channels.

10. VP of Marketing & Sales – Farmer’s Fridge, Chicago, IL

Position:The Head of Sales & Marketing will be responsible for creating, strategizing, and implementing cutting edge growth plans and account management execution for the US market. This individual will work directly with the CEO, COO, and key stakeholders of Farmer’s Fridge to expand market share from the local Chicago marketplace to the east coast, and eventually expand on a national level.  S(he) will continue to build out both the sales & marketing teams that will optimize Farmer’s Fridge unique product offering to established & future clients.

About Farmer’s Fridge: Our little company’s big idea? To make always-fresh, handcrafted salads & snacks available daily via automated fridges in office buildings, hospitals, schools and more.  Our passion is to make access to healthy, delicious food the rule, not the exception. With 60+ locations and counting, it is an exciting time to join our fast-growing team!
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