Home Chef is building new ways to provide meal solutions that meet a wide variety of customer needs, and shipping locations both online and in store. Our team is a unique mix of creators, chefs, entrepreneurs, and trailblazers and we’re growing quickly. Our customer-first mentality, combined with a zest for supporting our peers, helped us bring home Built in Chicago’s Startup of the Year Moxie award in 2017. If you’re ready to be part of the action, we’re ready to connect with you. There are no limits to where we can go together.

As the COVID-19 situation continues to escalate in the US and around the world, we are committed to keeping our teams and their families as our greatest priority. To that end, we are making some adjustments to the way we will be doing business in the upcoming weeks.

We are taking all the necessary precautions to keep our employees and customers safe, and would love to have you on our team as we can continue to serve our communities.

Summary of Responsibilities: 

The Research and Development Chef I will conceive and create new recipes for the Home Chef menu that meet our nutritional, cost and ingredient specifications. 

Detailed Responsibilities:

• Responsibility Area:
• R&D New Meals
• Conceive accessible, creative new recipes in the test kitchen that apply to cost, ingredient, caloric/nutritional, and time constraints
• Collaborate with other chefs to improve and test each other’s dishes
• Take extensive and honest feedback every day on meal accessibility and flavors and incorporate into recipes
• Work closely with the product team to ensure constraints are met, recipe tester feedback is incorporated, and customers will be able to execute meals
• Manages a minimum average rating of 4.00 on Established Meal Lines
• Averages a minimum 3 meals weekly through the Selection Committee process




• Evaluate Customer Feedback
• Thoroughly understand how average customer cooks and strive to make meals as streamlined, quick, and easy as possibleAnalyze customer comments on meals from both menu runs and beta runs, and incorporate learnings into new recipes




• Weekly Culinary Meetings
• Attend and participate in weekly culinary team meetings, including Performance Board, Team Check-ins, and Taster Standup

Qualifications: The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability needed for this role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.

• 10+ years experience working in a kitchen or other professional cooking environment.
• Able to work in a clean and organized manner.
• 2+ years prior recipe development experience. 
• Self-starter and highly motivated to make meals that an average person can successfully cook at home. 
• ServSafe or food handling certification preferred 
• Sense of teamwork and collaboration.
• Works well in group settings to move projects forward, provide constructive feedback when needed, and support the overall team workload
• Strong verbal communication skills
• Willing and able to receive feedback and implement suggestions
• Understanding of current nutrition, food and food industry trends.
• Must be able to taste and provide thorough feedback on every meal and ingredient sample test in the kitchen, including vegetarian, pork, chicken, steak, and seafood meals. 
• Culinary degree preferred.

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Perks/Benefits:

- Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance – benefits start the 1st day of the month following your start date 

- Company paid Life Insurance, Short Term Disability and Long Term Disability

- 401k Employer match - 50% on the $1, up to 6% of the employee's earnings 

- We offer flexible spending accounts (FSA) for qualified Medical, Dependent Care, Parking, or Transit expenses

- Flexible paid time off (PTO) policy, plus sick days 

- Generous Parental Leave 

- Great Work/Life Balance – We value and support each individual team member

- Quarterly company-wide “Town Hall” meetings 

- Ongoing professional development opportunities by level and function

- Your choice of Windows or Mac laptop, plus an extra screen 

- Onsite gym 

- Weekly Fooda credit 

- Newly renovated office in the historic Old Main Post Office which is located close to multiple Metra and CTA options

- Employee discounts through Perkspot

- Discounts on Home Chef meal kits and at Kroger stores

- Casual dress in a fun, friendly and collaborative work environment

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Home Chef is an equal opportunity employer.

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