Culinary Administrative Support Specialist

About the Team

We're a team of food-obsessed professionals from diverse culinary and food related background, united by a simple belief: great food changes people's days. We partner deeply with world class chefs, onboarding them, developing alongside them, and co-creating menu items that reflects the full breadth of global cuisine. The result is an ever-growing variety of dishes that delight every kind of eater, bridging culinary creativity, operational excellence and food quality.

About the Role

As a Culinary Support Specialist, you will perform administrative and development tasks in support of our Chefs and internal teams, focusing mainly on our new recipe and chef onboarding process and system. Formal culinary training or professional experience in the food and beverage industry with an emphasis on menu forecasting management is highly preferred.

Strong knowledge of global cuisines and ingredients, and large-scale food production - CookUnity operates multiple locations across the United States with different menus and chef concepts in each, around 800 menu items per week - will be highly advantageous. A successful candidate will have excellent attention to precise detail, impeccable organization skills, and have the ability to communicate clearly and seamlessly follow process steps.

Based remotely, with the ability to be online for to match EST Time Zone

Responsibilities

Recipes & Menu Processing:

• End-to-end responsibility of process steps for new meals, recipe edits, nutritional, editorial, and instructional information, including maintenance of tracking toolS
• Assisting internal teams and Chefs with the meal life-cycle from conception to market launch; working with independent chefs to improve internal visibility, consistency, and optimization of the process.
• Ability to calculate and enter scalable portion and recipe yields
• Conduct recipe input evaluations based on a defined set of targets and metrics as well as culinary best practices, recipe accuracy, etc.
• Submit and track new recipes, recipe edits, and new ingredient SKUs
• Categorize recipes with CU tagging and designation system based on cuisine type, dietary preference, etc.
• Weekly collaboration with internal teams, Chefs, and other internal departments on the meal updates.
• Action new recipe prioritization based on business and Chef needs

Chefs:

• Respond to inbound inquiries, and organize critical information that chefs (independent contractors) need access to as applicable to recipe development, edits, and updates.
• Onboard and train chef into CU platform and recipe development systems.

Qualifications

• English fluency required
• Strong data collection, communication, and problem-solving skills required
• Culinary background required - 2+ years experience working in the food industry, ingredient and sourcing knowledge, particularly in regards to recipe development, testing, batch scaling, edible portion yields, auditing, etc. for a large volume foodservice business
• Have the ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment - skilled at planning, organizing, prioritizing, and executing multiple projects and activities simultaneously.
• Experience and a high level of expertise in data entry, a food production enterprise resource or recipe management software, food labeling and compliance programs, GSuite, and Slack.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with Chefs and other CU stakeholders on important nutritional label compliance, ordering and scheduling information
• Ability to leverage generative AI to increase output quality and speed.
• Optimistic, resourceful, curious about diverse cuisine types and ready to take on any challenge.

Benefits

Get paid in USD

Work remotely: design the life that you want

Enjoy 15 days of vacation each year from the start date

Healthcare Benefit: Monthly stipend to use in your preferred healthcare provider

5- year Sabbatical: After 5 years with CookUnity, you get a 4-week paid sabbatical

16 fully paid Argentinean holidays

Family leave of 12 weeks for primary caregiver and 6 weeks for secondary caregiver, fully paid

Compassionate Leave: 3-5 days each time the need arises

Flexible benefits, your way: a prepaid card you can use on wellness, learning, food, and more.

AI-forward workplace: enterprise access to ChatGPT and Claude to help you work smarter and grow faster.

Personalized English coach

Awesome opportunity to join a company that is looking to change how we eat and how chefs work!