Culinary Innovation Architect — Product Development

Tyson Foods; Springdale (AR); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Tyson Foods is seeking a seasoned culinary professional to join the Culinary team in the U.S. for concept development, recipe creation, and menu applications. You will collaborate with Sales, Marketing, R&D, Operations, and customers to translate insights into scalable culinary solutions.

The role focuses on brand activations, consumer-driven opportunities, and reliable execution across retail or foodservice segments while balancing cost, safety, and feasibility.

Qualifications

• Culinary degree or equivalent professional experience required.
• Experience developing recipes, menu applications, and product positioning.
• Knowledge of product development and commercialization processes.

Responsibilities

• Develop culinary concepts, recipes, prototypes, menu applications, and product positioning solutions.
• Partner with R&D through product development, application testing, and commercialization.
• Translate consumer trends, customer insights, and operator needs into practical growth opportunities.
• Participate in customer ideations, demonstrations, trainings, trade shows, and brand activations.
• Create scalable recipes, preparation methods, and application guidance for internal and external use.
• Present culinary solutions to both internally and externally to customers, sales teams, and cross-functional partners in live, virtual, and on-camera formats.
• Build strong relationships with customers, suppliers, and internal partners.
• Balance culinary creativity with food safety, feasibility, operator execution, cost, and business objectives.
• Support test kitchen food safety, organization, inventory, and equipment care.

Skills

Culinary fundamentals

Recipe development

Flavor innovation

Food safety

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Culinary degree/certificate

Food Science/Culinology preferred

ACF/RCA certification a plus

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Tyson Foods is seeking a seasoned culinary professional to join the Culinary team in the U.S. for concept development, recipe creation, and menu applications. You will collaborate with Sales, Marketing, R&D, Operations, and customers to translate insights into scalable culinary solutions.

The role focuses on brand activations, consumer-driven opportunities, and reliable execution across retail or foodservice segments while balancing cost, safety, and feasibility.