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FOOD STARTUP JOBS IN NEW YORK

1. Content Marketing Manager at Karen Karp & Partners (Part-Time)

Position: KK&P seeks a talented, experienced Content Marketing Manager to be responsible for KK&P’s marketing strategies, lead generation and to manage its successful implementation. The role involves generating engaging marketing content on multiple platforms such as MailChimp, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, blog posts, case studies, white papers and video interviews. This new role is responsible for developing original, engaging content that helps promote the firm’s thought leadership across a wide variety of agriculture, food and health-related topics. To give you a sense: One day you might be interviewing a top chef; another day visiting with dairy farmers; another day exploring what it means to live in an urban food desert. The successful candidate is a creative marketing professional with an excellent writing background and proven ability to develop engaging content to attract and retain current and prospective c. This position reports to the President of KK&P and is based in our New York City offices.

About Karen Karp & Partners: KK& P is a growing, dynamic consulting company working in the fields of agriculture, food and health, a with two divisions. Our Good Food is Good Business division supports the healthy development, execution, and operations of food businesses and initiatives in the public and private sectors. Our services include strategic sourcing, feasibility analysis, market research, business planning, project management and evaluation. Our Good People are Good Business division builds leadership and organizational effectiveness in the food sector through talent and performance management, organizational assessment, capacity building, executive coaching, recruiting and employee engagement services.

2. Social Media Editor at Feel Good Foods

Position: Feel Good Foods is seeking a hands-on content creator with food experience to join our Brooklyn-based team and manage all social media platforms. The right candidate has a passion for and knowledge of food, deep understanding of the social media landscape and the photography/video skills necessary to bring our brand to life on social media with a consistent look and feel. The Social Media Food Editor reports to the VP Marketing.

About Feel Good Foods: Feel Good Foods, a frozen foods company based in Brooklyn, New York, is changing the marketplace with our chef-inspired, gluten-free versions of your favorite frozen appetizers, including our best-selling dumplings and egg rolls as well as our just-released taquitos and empanadas.

3. Software Engineer at FoodNiche

Position: A software engineer with expertise in Java back-end and highly scalable application developments is needed to join our team. A team player with great problem-solving skills. Java and relational database expertise, and some basic knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS3 and JavaScript is required for this job.

About FoodNiche: FoodNiche is a technology company that innovatively connect food brands and local food businesses to their target customers.

4. Senior Culinary Director at FreshDirect

Position: The position will work with the Directors of category’s to develop culinary programs that support each category. There will be guidance on internal and external development. This person will lead the culinary teams in training and product development based upon the business briefs.  Explain, train and teach the process to develop great food that meets the quality standards set forth in the briefs.

About Fresh Direct: FreshDirect is a food tech company and the Northeast’s leading online fresh food grocer, delivering directly to customers throughout seven states, including the New York City and Philadelphia metropolitan areas, and the greater D.C. metropolitan area. FreshDirect is committed to sourcing the freshest and best-tasting meat, fish, produce, and specialty items through direct relationships with suppliers, growers, and farmers.

5. Merchandising Manager, FreshDirect at the Office

Position: Recipe for Success – The Merchandising Manager, FreshDirect at the Office will be responsible for creating and managing the merchandising vision for the FreshDirect at the Office business including assortment, promotion, pricing and placement. This person will utilize research to understand the customer and their wants and then develop a vision to capture that targeted customer and provide product to meet their expectations. This will require working closely with the product experts across all product lines including Produce, Grocery, Dairy & Alcohol to match assortment, pricing and promotion to what the customers want. This team player will bring a strong category management to this segment to drive sales and profitability and will lead the annual business plan and operating budget development for the COS segment.

About FreshDirect: FreshDirect is a food tech company and the Northeast’s leading online fresh food grocer, delivering directly to customers throughout seven states, including the New York City and Philadelphia metropolitan areas, and the greater D.C. metropolitan area. FreshDirect is committed to sourcing the freshest and best-tasting meat, fish, produce, and specialty items through direct relationships with suppliers, growers, and farmers.

FreshDirect “At the Office” delivers the same high-quality food with expanded product offerings and services for corporate clients. In 2015, FreshDirect expanded its portfolio with the launch of FoodKick, a mobile-first food business that connects consumers to the freshest, tastiest finds in food, drinks, and lifestyle essentials all delivered within an hour.

6. Head of Design at Ando

Position: Ando is rethinking restaurants in a world dominated by mobile technology. We believe that great food and great delivery are not mutually exclusive, and we aim to bring them together through a suite of world-class products. We’re a team of chefs, entrepreneurs, developers and artists all passionate about using technology to push the culinary world to a new frontier. (Want to learn more? Here’s an interview with Ando co-founder David Chang)

We’re seeking an experienced product designer to join our efforts in bringing food to everyone. The ideal candidate has a passion and talent for all aspects of the design process, from research, to interaction and visual design, and branding. As a designer at Ando, you will be challenged to oscillate between these aspects of design to deliver world-class products. In addition to delivering products, this designer will work alongside the product and marketing teams to foster a strong design culture across the organization.

About Ando: Ando is Momofuku’s online, delivery-first, fast-casual restaurant.  Our vision is to unleash the power of culinary via technology to create a new American brand that disrupts the $600 billion fast food industry.  We couple exclusive cuisine designed for delivery by Michelin-star chef David Chang with a best-of-breed software stack that enables us to create a unique hospitality experience for every user.  Ando is venture-backed by Forerunner, Expa, the founders of Warby Parker and SoulCycle, as well as Aziz Ansari and Jimmy Fallon.  We’re a team of chefs, entrepreneurs, developers and artists all passionate about using technology to push the culinary world to a new frontier

7. Counsel, Supply Chain at Blue Apron 

Position: Blue Apron is seeking a bright, energetic, business-minded and self-motivated transactional attorney to join its rapidly growing Legal team. The ideal candidate has 5-8 years of proven complex supply chain contracts experience gained at a leading national law firm and a food manufacturer or consumer packaged goods (CPG) company. This position will be part of the Legal team’s commercial practice group which provides day-to-day support for the business’s contracting and commercial law needs, drafts and negotiates complex transaction agreements, and advises the business on a wide array of other commercial issues that arise from the operation of a large, fast-paced organization. The role will interface with key stakeholders of our Supply Chain business team to manage, negotiate and execute on a broad range of commercial initiatives and such team’s day-to-day operational needs and strategic priorities. This position is based in New York City at the company’s corporate headquarters in Soho

About Blue Apron: At Blue Apron, our mission is to make incredible home cooking accessible to everyone—from the novice cook just getting started to the experienced chef. Each week we send hundreds of thousands of customers all the pre-measured and perfectly proportioned ingredients they need to prepare delicious and healthy meals at home. We introduce our members to new ingredients, flavors, and cooking techniques with seasonally-inspired recipes that are always delicious, fun and easy to prepare.  We make fresher, healthier food available at better prices by rethinking the grocery supply chain from the table all the way back to the farm.

8. Digital Marketer at Urban Leaf

Position: At Urban Leaf we believe that the future of food is fresh, local and personal. It’d be great if you did too. We’re realizing this vision by showing people that growing it at home can be fun, easy and accessible. It’d be great if you knew a bit about food or growing it (the former being more important than the latter). You should be familiar with and understand the pros/cons of various marketing approaches across search, social and email. Must be familiar with designing, running and refining experiments on Adwords and FB.

About Urban Leaf: At Urban Leaf we believe that the future of food is fresh, local and personal. Our goal is to provide an experience that reconnects customers to their food, by showing them that growing it at home is fun, easy and accessible. Our first product, the World’s Smallest Garden, is launching on Kickstarter in May.

9. Sales Coordinator at Ox Verte

Position: Are you looking to join a young, ambitious food start-up on the ground floor? Do you have contacts and friends in offices across Manhattan?

OX VERTE is looking for an all-star Catering Sales Coordinator to join our founding team and help us grow! Most importantly, you will be acting as the brand’s wellness ambassador while delivering impeccable customer service and representing OX VERTE to new and existing clients

About Ox Verte: Ox Verte is a plant-forward food company working to reinvent office lunch. At Ox Verte, we want to make seasonally-fresh, locally-sourced food an everyday occurrence, and offer wholesome meals that can nourish our bodies and nurture our communities.

The Company was founded in Feb. 2015 and serves groups sizes 10 – 500 in Manhattan. Ox Verte is also a Certified B Corporation, a leader in the global movement to use business as a force for good.

10. Director of Logistics at Hungry Root

Position:  We’re looking for a detail oriented, organized and hands-on Director of Logistics to join our team and manage our logistics and warehousing operation. The ideal candidate has experience in inbound and outbound transportation and warehousing of short shelf life, refrigerated food products. This job requires the candidate to roll up his/her sleeves and hit the ground running. The ideal candidate is comfortable sourcing, negotiating and managing third-party logistics and warehousing partners. The candidate should have a customer-centric, forward-looking and cost-conscious approach. Candidates should have established a track record as a dedicated and positive team player, have a passion for health, wellness and craveable food, and be ready for their next challenge.

About Hungryroot: Our mission is to create healthy foods that people crave. We take foods that people associate with indulgence and lack of health and we reinvent them using vegetables and other wholesome ingredients. We have over 30 products spanning Coconut Curry Cauliflower Rice, Sweet Potato Fettuccine Alfredo, and Almond Chickpea Cookie Dough. We’re sold online at Hungryroot.com and also at Whole Foods. We’re passionate, fast-paced, and backed by some of the nation’s best venture capital investors.

11. Vice President of Supply Chain at Hungryroot

Position: We’re looking for a process and detail oriented, proactive and hands-on Vice President of Supply Chain to join our executive team and manage our contract food manufacturing, logistics, warehousing and fulfillment operation. The ideal candidate has experience managing the end-to-end supply chain for sourcing and distributing short shelf life food products to customers on a weekly basis. This job requires the candidate to roll up his/her sleeves and hit the ground running. The ideal candidate should be comfortable with demand and supply planning, refrigerated logistics and warehousing, negotiating and managing 3PMs and 3PLs and optimizing and managing toward cost and service level goals. Candidates should have established a track record as a dedicated and positive team player, have a passion for health, wellness and craveable food, and be ready for their next challenge.

About Hungryroot: Our mission is to create healthy foods that people crave. We take foods that people associate with indulgence and lack of health and we reinvent them using vegetables and other wholesome ingredients. We have over 30 products spanning Coconut Curry Cauliflower Rice, Sweet Potato Fettuccine Alfredo, and Almond Chickpea Cookie Dough. We’re sold online at Hungryroot.com and also at Whole Foods. We’re passionate, fast-paced, and backed by some of the nation’s best venture capital investors.

12. Sales Manager at Ark Foods

Position: We are a medium-sized specialty produce grower with hubs in Immokalee, FL, the Carolina’s and NY State, and are seeking a Sales Manager for the 2017 – 2018 season and beyond. Our team is distributed across our growing regions and this position can be flexibly located, but our preference is someone physically located in the greater NYC area.

This person will work very closely with our CEO, head of sales, and our logistics department, and will be responsible for produce sales. Our customers are nationwide as is our reach, but the focus of this position will be sales in the Mideastern USA, and Eastern USA.

The right person will bring sales and produce industry experience, matched with high energy and outstanding communication skills, to our fast-growing team. The role will have an emphasis on opening new retail accounts. We are offering a highly competitive package that can be either commission or salary based.

About Ark Foods: Ark Foods is a specialty produce grower with operations up and down the East Coast. Our goal is to bring interesting produce to everyone at accessible price points. In total we grow a limited number of acres of specialty produce, ensuring that all our produce receives the care it deserves. By staying focused, we are able to craft more interesting, ‘underdog’ vegetables. This is how we stay true to our purpose: to feed vegetable curiosity to everyone, everywhere.

13. “OXen” Team Member (Food Delivery and Brand Ambassador) at Ox Verte

Position: Are you looking for experience at a young, ambitious food start-up on the ground floor? Are you interested in executing on client orders and representing a mission-driven brand? OX VERTE is looking for a energetic individuals to join our team and help us grow! As part of the ‘OXen’ team, you are a foundational member of Ox’s staff. We want to bring back the Ox as a steady, humble beast that can get food from local farms into the offices of hard working city dwellers. OXen team members act as the bridge between our company and our clients.

About Ox Verte: Ox Verte is a plant-forward food company working to reinvent office lunch. At Ox Verte, we want to make seasonally-fresh, locally-sourced food an everyday occurrence, and offer wholesome meals that can nourish our bodies and nurture our communities. The Company was founded in Feb. 2015 and serves groups sizes 10 – 500 in Manhattan. Ox Verte is also a Certified B Corporation, a leader in the global movement to use business as a force for good. Read about us in Food+Tech Connect or  Edible Manhattan.

14. General Manager at Fields Good Chicken

Position:  At Fields Good Chicken, we believe in cross-training our team members. Teaching our employees every station helps them develop professionally and makes the greatest impact at our restaurant.

The General Manager will lead the operation of our restaurants. The General Manager has the overall responsibility for directing the daily operations of a restaurant, ensuring compliance with company standards in all areas of operation, including product preparation and delivery, customer relations, restaurant maintenance and repair, inventory management, team management, financial accountability, ensuring that the highest quality products and services are delivered to each customer and other duties as required or assigned.

About Fields Good Chicken: Fields Good Chicken is a fast casual concept that specializes in the craft of grilled and roasted chicken. Using all natural ingredients, original recipes, and sauces made from scratch, we create sandwiches, salads, and bowls that are both healthy and delicious.

Fields Good Chicken brings a new take on one of the most common foods around, making the familiar amazing. We believe the best ingredients combined with the best culinary practices by skilled chefs leads to truly good chicken.

At Fields Good Chicken, our goal is to develop and retain the best employees in the business. We encourage our employees to have fun and grow both personally and professionally. At Fields Good Chicken, each employee works side by side to help deliver high quality and delicious food. We are looking for individuals who love food, love the brand, and want to help us expand.

15. Community Manager at The Little Beet and The  Little Beet Table

Position: The Community Manager plays an incredibly important role in the success of Little Beet and Little Beet Table. One part influential advocate, one part project manager and one part communication genius, the CM is the heartbeat and handshake between Little Beet and Little Beet Table and our community. The CM’s number one priority is to engage and inform our community in an authentic and relevant way while staying true to Little Beet and Little Beet Table’s values, marketing strategy and priorities. The CM is empowered to develop, execute, and measure our physical and digital presence.

About The Little Beet: The Little Beet and The Little Beet Table are veggie friendly sister restaurants committed to living well. The Little Beet Table is a full-service version of the Fast Casual Little Beet. Both brands are built using fresh, whole ingredients to make delicious and healthy dishes. Our living well philosophy extends beyond the taste buds to focus on body and mind too. We’re building a brand dedicated to the simpatico between these three core life components. If this sounds like you, the team would love to hear from you.

16. Community Manager at Fields Good Chicken

Position: The Community Manager plays an incredibly important role in the success of Fields Good Chicken. One part influential advocate, one part project manager and one part communication genius, the CM is the heartbeat and handshake between Fields Good Chicken and our community. The CM’s number one priority is to engage and inform our community in an authentic and relevant way while staying true to XYZ’s values, marketing strategy and priorities. The CM is empowered to develop, execute, and measure our physical and digital presence.

About Fields Good Chicken: Fields Good Chicken is a NYC born, chicken focused restaurant. We’re on a mission to fuel New Yorker’s active lifestyles while preserving the planet where we live. Our delicious, good for you, food is at the core of growing the brand across the country but active and adventurous initiatives are equally important to achieve our goals. If you love the outdoors, healthful food, adventure and all things chicken you’re a perfect fit for the FGC team.

17. Marketing and Operations Associate at One Culture Foods

Position: We are a young natural foods brand based in New York City looking for an energetic self-starter to work directly with the founder to assist with day-to-day operations as well as contribute to larger strategic initiatives. You will be involved in every aspect of what it takes to run and grow a food start-up including sales & distribution, branding & marketing, social media/digital marketing, supply chain management, order processing & fulfillment, market analysis, growth strategy, etc. If you consider yourself a jack-of-all-trades type who wants to be challenged in a scrappy, entrepreneurial environment then this might be for you. You’ll gain exposure to every aspect of running a food business with unlimited room for growth and advancement in the areas you excel.

About One Culture Foods:  One Culture Foods encourages discovery by delivering ambitious global flavors, simply. We explore unique ‘dialects’ of flavors and foods to provide everyday adventure, added convenience to the busy home cook, and natural/better-for-you products that never compromise on flavor. We believe in embracing our commonalities and celebrating our beautiful differences through the universal language of food. We hope that by bridging cuisines and cultures we can be a small reminder that we are all more similar than we are different. We are inclusive, ambitious, adventurous, candid.

18. Tea Blending and Production at Ito En

Position: Ito En is looking for someone to create tea blends to customer specifications, adhere to health and safety regulations, and oversee all quality control measures. This person will work with our Marketing and Sales teams to develop new ways to expand our tea knowledge and expertise to more customers.

 About Ito En: ITO EN (North America) INC. was founded in May 2001 with the mission of introducing ITO EN’s line of green tea products and establishing a green tea culture and interest in the United States and beyond.

In 2002, the Teas’ Tea line of natural, unsweetened bottled tea was launched. The product line functions as the centerpiece of ITO EN (North America) Inc. for it upholds ITO EN’s principles of Natural, Safe, Healthy, Well-Designed, and Delicious. Today, we have three tea brands that we market across multiple North American retail channels: Teas’ Tea Organic, MatchaLove, and Oi Ocha.

19. Copywriter at Dig Inn

Position: You are responsible for bringing Dig Inn’s personality to life through words, narrating all things culinary, people, and beyond. Our mission is to bring people together through food – be it working with farmers to identify the best growing methods, concocting new dishes each season, or highlighting our cooks who are developing their culinary voice in our restaurants. We need you to help tell our story and give our guests a seat at the table.  You will report to the Senior Director of Marketing and integrate with the team through digital outlets, partnerships, events, and press. The marketing team is the voice of our organization and is continuously evolving with our fa(r)m.

About Dig Inn: Dig Inn is a vegetable-forward fine-fast casual restaurant group whose mission is to build community through food. With 15 locations in NYC and Boston and more sprouting soon, we are looking to grow our team and nurture the next crop of bright and driven people who are looking to impact the future of food. Our community is built through learning and development and as we grow, opportunities harvest from within. The work we do is challenging and fast paced, serving over 15,000 lbs of vegetables per week in each of our scratch based kitchens. As cooks develop into chefs, we are building a diverse and inspiring brand along the way.

20. Business Development Associate at Dig Inn

Position: You are responsible for expanding Dig Inn’s journey with our off-premise sales channels. Developing strong partnerships and building an innovative sales & guest relationship platform will be your launchpad to growing your team. We are seeking a highly motivated and entrepreneurial person who aligns with our mission of bringing people together through food. Our team wants you to give our guests a seat at Dig Inn’s table outside of its restaurants.  You will report to our Off-Premise Director and collaborate with your team to impact the future of food.

About Dig Inn: Dig Inn is a vegetable-forward fine-fast casual restaurant group whose mission is to build community through food. With 15 locations in NYC and Boston and more sprouting soon, we are looking to grow our team and nurture the next crop of bright and driven people who are looking to impact the future of food. Our community is built through learning and development and as we grow, opportunities harvest from within. The work we do is challenging and fast paced, serving over 15,000 lbs of vegetables per week in each of our scratch based kitchens. As cooks develop into chefs, we are building a diverse and inspiring brand along the way.