Private Chef

Skywalker Holdings, LLC; San Anselmo (CA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision

401(k) with Company Match

Generous PTO

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Skywalker Holdings, LLC seeks an experienced Private Chef to deliver restaurant-quality cuisine in a highly personalized California household. The role requires flexibility, discretion, and the ability to tailor menus to principals’ preferences.

The candidate should manage sourcing, kitchen standards, and event-style service, working closely with the Estate Manager and the broader household team.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8–10 years of professional culinary experience.
• Experience in luxury hospitality, private households or similar high-demand environments.
• Ability to plan menus, source ingredients, manage kitchen operations and maintain standards.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on cooking, prep, and service for principals, family members, and guests.
• Develop menus and execute elaborate or family-style meals.
• Collaborate with the Estate Manager and broader household team.
• Manage procurement, inventory, food costs, and waste.
• Support private events and larger-scale entertaining.

Skills

Culinary excellence

Private service mindset

Judgment & discretion

Organization & reliability

Adaptability

Collaboration

Dietary accommodation

Menu development

Event catering

Education

Culinary degree or formal training

Tools

MS Office Suite

Serv Safe Manager

Job description

Description

The Culinary team is responsible for delivering an exceptional, highly personalized culinary experience for the principals, family members, and their guests.

Description

The Culinary team is responsible for delivering an exceptional, highly personalized culinary experience for the principals, family members, and their guests.
The Private Chefs operate as peer culinary partners, sharing responsibility for the household's day-to-day culinary program, special events, entertaining, purchasing, kitchen standards, menu development, and culinary execution. Each Chef is expected to be fully capable of independently managing the kitchen and providing complete culinary service when the other Chef is unavailable.
The successful candidate will combine exceptional culinary ability with the discretion, flexibility, emotional intelligence, and service orientation required to work within a highly personalized private household. The Chef must be equally comfortable preparing refined restaurant-quality cuisine, sophisticated multi-course dinners, and familiar family-style meals tailored precisely to the principals' preferences.
This is a hands-on culinary position. The Private Chef team are expected to actively cook, prep, organize, source ingredients, maintain kitchen standards, develop menus and execute service rather than functioning solely as culinary managers.
The Private Chef team reports to the Estate Manager and work collaboratively with the broader household team.

Requirements

Education / Experience:

• Minimum 8–10 years of professional culinary experience, preferably including luxury hospitality, fine dining, private households, private clubs, yachts, luxury hotels, or similarly demanding environments.

Required Skills

• Demonstrated experience preparing high-quality cuisine for discerning clients, principals, executives, VIPs, or high-profile guests.
• Strong culinary foundation with proficiency across multiple cuisines and culinary styles.
• Demonstrated ability to execute both sophisticated cuisine and approachable family-style meals.
• Experience accommodating complex dietary restrictions and allergies.
• Experience with private events and larger-scale entertaining.
• Experience with premium food procurement and culinary vendor relationships.
• Demonstrated knowledge of purchasing, inventory, food costing, and waste management.
• Experience working effectively as part of a culinary team.
• Culinary degree or formal culinary training preferred.
• UHNW private household experience strongly preferred.
• Experience working within a two-chef or similar collaborative culinary model is a plus.

Required Competencies

• Culinary Excellence
• Collaboration
• Private Service Mindset
• Judgment & Discretion
• Organization & Reliability
• Adaptability

Technical Skills

• Scheduling/Calendaring
• MS Office Suite
• Serv Safe Manager a plus or will train

Compensation And Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision with Generous Cost Sharing
• Employer-Paid Life Insurance and Long-Term Disability Policy
• Flexible Spending Account
• Aflac short-term disability options
• 401 (k) with Company Match
• Family Care with Urbansitter membership
• Generous PTO Policy
• Education/Tuition Reimbursement
• Yearly Performance Review
• Coaching programs
• The expected pay range for this role is $95,000-$105,000 with a year end discretionary bonus