Chef

Jersey City, NJ

Hearth Meals is a culturally-competent, medically tailored meal service providing dietitian-designed, and chef-prepared, meals as medicine to patients with diet-related conditions. The service aims to empower the 100M+ patients with these conditions to use personalized nutrition to eliminate disease and lead healthier lives, with food that tastes like home!

Hearth Meals is looking for a chef for an inaugural meal service from July - October 2023 (with potential for a long-term commitment). Qualifications & application instructions are included below.

Qualifications / Skills:

Kitchen experience:
- Cook or chef in a food service business (fast casual restaurant, full-service restaurant, meal delivery service)
- Food preparation experience across meats, seafood, vegetables, hot and cold foods, sauces, and international cuisines (particularly Hispanic or South Asian)
- Experience maintaining a sanitary kitchen and workspace
- Experience with cooking based on a variety of dietary restrictions, allergies, and diets

Interpersonal skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience working within a team-setting
- Ability to manage stress individually and across kitchen staff when operating under tight timelines
- High emotional intelligence and empathy

Innovation
- Healthy combination of research and ingenuity in developing new menus or food recipes (experiential, books, videos, other media)
- Adept critical thinking, with an understanding of risks and tradeoffs with kitchen operations
- Operate with a growth mindset, with a continuous desire to innovate the status quo and create:
- New recipes based on a matrix of conditions and dietary/cultural preferences
- New culinary techniques to cook and prepare food for delivery
- New marketing techniques to showcase meals
- Product features to improve efficiency in operations or reduce costs
- Ability to rapidly adapt to operational or strategic changes

Culture
- Intellectually curious within the business and with customers
- Mentally resilient and optimistic despite setbacks, challenges with growth, or stress
- Willingness to share feedback, criticisms, and new ideas openly with team members
- Oriented towards social impact, with a desire to drive impact at scale

Requirements:
- Availability 1-2 days per week from July - October 2023
- Based in NYC / NJ area, with ability to travel to a central kitchen on his/her own

Application instructions:
Submit a resume, cover letter, and pictures of previously cooked foods to araol@hearthmeals.com. Include your contact information, and relevant links to websites / social media.

Salary: Variable based on assignment