Private Chef

Pocketbook Agency; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 162,000 - 198,000; Full time

Job summary

Pocketbook Agency is confidentially seeking a Traveling Private Chef to join a LA-based culinary team. The role requires frequent travel between East and West Coast residences and the kitchen operates year-round.

Responsibilities include planning and cooking two meals daily, menu planning with a global palate, and serving in plated, family style, or buffet formats. The candidate must travel extensively and maintain discretion.

Qualifications

• Prior private chef experience in an ultra-high-net-worth household required.
• Proven ability to run a kitchen on your own without supervision.
• Strong experience with dietary restrictions, etc.
• Broad culinary range with a global palate.
• Flexible mindset and open to feedback.
• Calm under pressure and steady through long days and changing plans.
• Team player who builds good relationships with chefs, nannies, and household staff.
• Able to travel heavily, including long stretches.
• Proven ability to regularly cook for parties between 10-30 ppl (with assistance from others on the culinary team when needed).

Responsibilities

• Plan and cook 2 meals per day and assist with prep for other meals, for a discerning family with various dietary restrictions
• Confident to run the kitchen on your own, with or without the Executive Chef onsite
• Plan menus with the culinary team and log them in the shared menu log
• Cook a global range cuisines and keep menus varied
• Capable to serve plated, family style, and buffet style-meals
• Comfortable to cook for daily meals and special occasions from 10-30 guests
• Travel with the family on vacations, work trips and to various residences
• Protect the family’s privacy and keep the highest levels of discretion

Skills

Private chef experience

Kitchen management

Dietary restrictions expertise

Global culinary range

Flexibility

Calm under pressure

Team player

Travel ability

Multitasking in busy environments

Job description

A confidential family is seeking a full-time, Los Angeles–based Traveling Private Chef to join its established culinary team. The kitchen operates year-round, so the ideal candidate is flexible, collaborative, and comfortable working in a dynamic environment.

This role requires frequent travel between the family’s East and West Coast residences.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Plan and cook 2 meals per day and assist with prep for other meals, for a discerning family with various dietary restrictions
• Confident to run the kitchen on your own, with or without the Executive Chef onsite
• Plan menus with the culinary team and log them in the shared menu log
• Cook a global range cuisines and keep menus varied
• Capable to serve plated, family style, and buffet style-meals
• Comfortable to cook for daily meals and special occasions from 10-30 guests
• Travel with the family on vacations, work trips and to various residences
• Protect the family’s privacy and keep the highest levels of discretion

QUALIFICATIONS

• Prior private chef experience in an ultra-high-net-worth household required
• Proven ability to run a kitchen on your own without supervision
• Strong experience with dietary restrictions, etc.
• Broad culinary range with a global palate
• Flexible mindset and open to feedback. Not rigid or ego-driven
• Calm under pressure and steady through long days and changing plans
• Team player who builds good relationships with chefs, nannies, and household staff
• Able to travel heavily, including long stretches
• Proven ability to regularly cook for parties between 10-30 ppl (with assistance from others on the culinary team when needed)

Location: Los Angeles, CA, west side, with heavy travel

Compensation: Up to $180,000 DOE range plus comprehensive benefits package, PTO, etc.

Schedule: Full-time on a rolling 5 day schedule.

Pocketbook Agency is an equal opportunity recruiting firm and does not discriminate in its recruiting, screening, or placement practices based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.