R&D Food Science Tech Lead – Alternative Meats

For people who believe eating healthier should be effortless and tasty, TheNotCompany (“NotCo”) – ranked in the Top 50 Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company – is a five-year old foodtech company that develops an AI technology and conducts cutting-edge science to enable the creation of unprecedented plant-based products, in a mission to restart the food industry. Since forming in 2015, we have launched several different plant-based products through our technology platform, Giuseppe, including NotMilk, NotMayo, and NotBurger. NotCo is a global company with offices & product sales in Chile, Brazil, and Argentina, Colombia, Mexico and the US; our latest $235m funding round will fuel our further growth in North America.

We are currently looking for a R&D Food Science Tech Lead – Alternative Meats (BU: External Services)

The R&D Food Science Tech Lead – Alternative Meats will be reporting to the Director of R&D (BU: External Services). This position is located in the San Francisco area.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate all activities of the Food Science Team inside the category stream.
• Work side by side with all the company functions in order to drive the top line, the efficiencies as well as uniquity of all products for NotCo.
• Ensure product superiority status across our competitors in the spaces where we operate
• Be accountable on working side by side with the machine learning team and the research team on all product development on improvement projects
• To design and develop new products within Business objectives.
• Bring product development expertise through his / her own experience as well as from suppliers, to ensure successful industrialization and launches that meet the requirements of the project brief.
• Design and carry out laboratory-scale and/or pilot experiments for both food prototyping and ingredient validation.
• Provide feedback of the experiments and trials to the project teams and Al.
• Propose improvements in production processes and products, based on experimental results at the laboratory and pilot scale.
• Participate in scientific communication activities and the latest technologies in the Research area.

Requirements

• 5 or more years of progressive R&D experience and at least 1-year leading teams in plant-based food products including successful execution of plant-based food products (meat analogues)
• Bachelor’s degree in food engineering, food science, Engineering in Biotechnology or a similar discipline; Master’s degree a plus.
• Experience directing and developing teams while making sure employees have a great environment to work in
• Possess experience in working in a consumer food company, product development and experimental design.
• Excel in a startup environment and excited to create new procedures and processes from scratch, and has a strong entrepreneurial mindset.
• Be a problem solver and take the initiative to get the job done, strong communicator.
• Possess strong planning and execution skills, and the ability to articulate where and how you have used them.
• Rigorous data driven/analytical capability and ability and presence to present data effectively to a leadership team.
• Work well in teams and cross functional groups in a matrixed environment both regionally and globally.
• Be agile, adaptable, and thrive in a dynamic and changing culture.
• Possess strong computer skills including a high level of proficiency in MS Office, specifically Excel.
• Ability to travel at least 30% of the time.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status

If our purpose and way of working vibrate with you, and you want to be part of this story, apply to join this squad.

WHY NOT!.