Culinary Administrative Support Specialist

About CookUnity:

Food has lost its soul to modern convenience. And with it, it has lost the power to nourish, inspire, and connect us. So in 2018, CookUnity was founded as the first-of-its-kind platform that connects the world with the source of truly great food: chefs. Today, CookUnity delivers 50 million meals a year from the industry’s best chefs to homes all over the country. Fresh. Ready-to-eat. And crafted with the passion that nourishes body and soul.

Unwilling to stop there, CookUnity is expanding beyond delivery to become an ever-innovating marketplace focused on our singular mission: empower Chefs to nourish the world.

If that mission has you hungry in more ways than one, you’ve found the right job posting.

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!

If you’re interested in this role, please submit your application, and if we think you might be a fit, we'll get in touch with you.Thank you for your time!

CookUnity is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are dedicated to creating a community of inclusion and an environment free from discrimination or harassment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or physical or mental disability.

A quick note for all candidates

We’ve recently seen an increase in recruitment scams across the industry, and we want to make sure you (and your data)stay safe while applying to CookUnity.We also want you to know that we take this seriously — sometimes, as part of our process, we may ask for a brief“proof of humanity” to confirm that we’re connecting with a real person, not an impersonator. Here are a few tips to help you protect yourself and know what to expect from us:

• Apply only through our official channels. All open roles are listed on our official careers page:careers.cookunity.com

• Our recruiters are real people — and easy to verify. You can always find them on LinkedIn with verified profiles. If you’re unsure, feel free to reach out to us on our officialLinkedIn Company Page.

• We only communicate through official CookUnity channels. That means emails ending in@cookunity.comand interviews held through official company platforms (Google Meet or Zoom) — never WhatsApp, Telegram, or SMS.

• We’ll never ask for payment or personal financial details. If anyone does, please don’t share any information and let us know right away.

If something ever feels off or you’re unsure about a message, we’d much rather you double-check with us. You can always contact us directly through any of our social media channels. We appreciate your interest in joining CookUnity — and we care about keeping your experience (and safety) as genuine as possible.