Product Developer

About the role

We're looking for someone with years of experience to have a heavy hand in new product development (but never a heavy hand with durians, cumin, or—the Siete debate—cilantro). If you're excited to help our familia grow and evolve our current product lines (a list that includes salsas, sauces, chips, tortillas, cookies, beans, taco shells, seasonings, and more!), we would love to hear from you.

About you

• Detail-oriented and precise
• Natural-born multi-tasker, problem solver, and self-starter
• Collaboration and communication are your bread and butter
• You like to cook on your own time, and the idea of creating new products fires you up
• Graduated from Easy-Bake Oven to playing with product development, formulas, and testing
• Scalability of a product is always top of mind
• Embrace agility and are able to work with short lead times
• Organization comes as naturally to you as breathing
• Culinary creativity knows no bounds

What you will do

• Create innovative, heritage-inspired food that is dietarily inclusive
• Be the champion for flavor, texture, and clean labels in our products, helping scale without allowing our scaling processes to compromise these attributes
• Support the formulation process from start to finish including research and planning, development and refinement, launching the product
• Work cross-functionally with the Operational team and co-manufacturing partners to gather manufacturing processing and equipment information
• Test/Assist benchtop ingredient sourcing and develop basic initial raw material specifications throughout the formulation process
• Work with R&D team to scale products: set production process, maximize shelf life, and overcome any technical roadblocks for your project
• Develop bench-top samples to present to different functions of the company as well as outside of the company
• Support formula documentation and records across various systems (e.g. TraceGains, Trustwell Genesis) throughout development
• Assist the Innovation and Renovation initiatives of the company to help create new products and renovate existing ones, as needed
• Contribute culinary expertise and knowledge to guide and accelerate the development and reformulation of new and current products
• Travel approximately 25% of the time to support supplier and co-manufacturing relations, plant trials, and provide on-site support as needed

Your experience

• 3-5 years of experience in product development as a chef and/or food technologist
• Proficiency with Excel or Google Docs is preferred
• Previous experience with food labeling software such as Genesis is preferred