Product & Recipe Developer, Vegan Meals

3 weeks ago

Tempe, United States LeafSide Full time

**Summary**

Are you **obsessed** with making nutritious & delicious whole food vegan meals for your family, friends, community, and country?

Are you creative, and is working with healthy food every day your happy-place?

Are you **high energy, proactive, organized, curious, self-motivated**, and looking to accelerate your career within a fast-paced mission-driven organization?

What if **you could make a real difference**, every day, for people’s health, animals, and the planet — working with a passionate vegan team?

**You certainly can, at LeafSide** We are a growing company, offering innovative 100% whole-food plant-based (WFPB) vegan meals at the healthiest standard (Dr. Greger’s evidence-based Daily Dozen). Our **mission** is to make optimally healthy, whole vegan eating so easy and enjoyable, that it becomes a societal norm.

As our team’s **Product & Recipe Developer**, you’ll lead and raise our products and offerings to the next level in quality and nutrition — continually improving, revising, and creating meals. You’ll start with (freeze) dried ingredients and combine them in bold ways where no chef has gone before, while using your ever-growing digital skills to organize your work.

**We’re looking for a leader** who can drive better and new products, to **help our customers become the healthiest version of themselves, easily and enjoyably**. Someone **mission-driven**, highly-organized, **uncannily resourceful**, amazingly adaptable, crystal-clear communicating, and a **get-it-done fellow vegan** — to join us in our Tempe, AZ office.

It’ll all be happening in the fast-paced environment of a growing, mission-driven company — so we’re looking for someone who will **see this role as not just another job, but their life’s calling**.

**Responsibilities & Tasks**

**Product Development**
- Improve, revise, and create recipes for nutritious, delicious, shelf stable, portable WFPB vegan meals
- Ensure all recipes meet company parameters for convenience, nutrition, and costs
- Train & manage the Product Development team, including performance reviews
- Oversee product testing process
- Prepare product samples for taste testers
- Design product photo layouts and manage sessions with professional photographer
- Communicate & coordinate with Marketing
- Review customer feedback and coordinate with Customer Success as needed
- Contribute positively to company culture by exemplifying a WFPB lifestyle

**Research**
- Source suppliers of high quality ingredients
- Complete special projects as required
- Stay up-to-date with nutrition science (whole food plant based, lifestyle medicine), food industry trends, and emerging technologies in food science.

**Documentation**
- Be proficient with spreadsheets, project management, and other IT tools
- Create and update Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
- Communicate and coordinate regularly via internal communication systems
- **Culinary Skills**: Ideally your cooking has wowed and convinced others to go vegan And you’ve taken courses, won competitions, cooked often for others, and have other chef accolades on your wall. Bonus if you’re well traveled and at least familiar with many international cuisines & flavor combinations.
- **You have working WFPB/vegan nutrition knowledge**. Ideally you’ve read science-heavy nutrition books like “How Not To Die” and “Becoming Vegan” on your own, and you can readily communicate about the major ideas there. Additional nutrition/culinary education and experience are very helpful.
- **Bonus, Natural and organic products industry experience**: You’ve worked in the natural/organic products (e.g. CPG, retail) industry at a professional or executive level.
- **Bonus, Food Science** / Chemistry background, skills, and/or keen interest.
- **Communication Skills**: You have excellent verbal and written communication skills, and strong listening and organizational skills with proven attention to detail. Ideally, you can quickly understand high-level goals, plan your work, and get great results - with very little oversight, and then present your findings concisely and convincingly to the team.
- **Research Skills**: You know how to start with a (big) question or goal, and quickly dive into a topic to get relevant and convincing results. You’re highly proficient with using search engines, papers, books, etc. for research, and able to solve many or most technology questions and issues independently. You’re also able to find and reach out to credible experts to get key information.
- **Information Organization and Presentation Skills**: You’re able to effectively organize large amounts of data and information into clearly understandable formats, such as spreadsheets & documents.
- **Project Management Skills**: You’re an independent worker with demonstrated flexibility to adapt to changes, and handle multiple competing demands. As mentioned, once you understand the goals you should manage

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