Senior Product Designer - Fresh Sous Vide

Deli Star Corp.; St. Louis (MO); Sur place; USD 110 000 - 150 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Senior Product Designer at Deli Star is responsible for shaping the Fresh Sous Vide experience from concept through scale-up, translating culinary and scientific goals into repeatable formulations for REVEL and customer innovation programs.

You will partner with the CEO and Chief Science & Innovation Officer and cross-functional teams to design, prototype, test, and refine protein products and fresh prepared foods that meet quality, nutrition, and consumer needs while advancing Deli Star’s

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Meat Science, Food Engineering, or related discipline.
• Passion for designing food products with strong examples.
• Strong first-principles thinking and ability to explain product behavior.
• Understanding of protein functionality, thermal processing, and refrigerated food quality.
• Ability to plan and conduct bench experiments and refine formulations.
• Strong sensory judgment, analytical skills and disciplined technical documentation.
• Ability to communicate design clearly and collaborate across functions.

Responsabilités

• Own the product experience for sous vide protein products and fresh prepared foods.
• Translate customer needs into clear goals for flavor, texture, appearance, nutrition, convenience, and value.
• Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, and Product Management on customer discovery and feasibility.
• Provide formulations, product specifications, and quality targets to guide scale-up and manufacturing.

Connaissances

First-principles thinking

Sensory judgment

Product design

Analytical skills

Technical documentation

Clear design communication

Bench experiments

Formation

Bachelor’s degree in Food Science or related

Description du poste

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Senior Product Designer - Fresh Sous Vide

Full Time Professional FDC, Saint Louis, MO, US

2 days ago Requisition ID: 1114

Location: St. Louis, MO

Department: DESIGN, Platform & Process R&D

Reports to: CEO/Chief Science & Innovation Officer, Justin Siegel

About Deli Star: Who We Are

Deli Star is a next-generation food manufacturing company with a clear purpose: to nourish life through protein with integrity. We specialize in fresh, sous vide cooked proteins and patented food-safety technologies, serving some of the most trusted brands, and culinary teams across the United States. Our mission is ambitious: to build a world-class fresh sous vide system. We are working towards a future in which safe, nutritious, high-quality protein is fresh and accessible to more people.

Deli Star is not a typical food manufacturer. We combine the scientific rigor, quality standards and operational discipline required in food manufacturing with the energy, creativity and entrepreneurial mindset of a growth company. With a team of 150 employees and growing, we are large enough to make a meaningful impact while remaining small enough for talented people to influence how the company evolves.

We are proud of our strong customer partnerships, our rapid growth and our long-term commitment to building an innovative, technology-enabled manufacturing platform.

Our people-first culture is grounded in three core values: Trust, Resilience, and Creativity.

We believe the future belongs to companies that can combine quality, innovation and operational excellence at scale.

The Opportunity

Help shape the future of fresh food. Deli Star is building a world-class Fresh Sous Vide system to make safe, nutritious, high-quality protein fresh and accessible. Our patent-pending Fresh Sous Vide process opens new possibilities for proteins and a broad range of fresh prepared foods, and we’re looking for a designer who can bring them to life.

You will combine culinary imagination, scientific rigor, and first-principles thinking to create exceptional protein products and fresh prepared foods people want to eat again. Working directly with our CEO and Chief Science & Innovation Officer and the DESIGN team, you will formulate, make, taste, measure, and refine products for REVEL and customer innovation programs.

This is a hands-on role with meaningful influence. The products you create and the possibilities you uncover will help shape Deli Star’s product and business strategy for many years to come, expanding what Fresh Sous Vide can offer and making eating more nutritious, convenient, and enjoyable.

Our DESIGN Team

DESIGN connects food science and product design with technical expertise, Supply Chain—including Commercialization, Purchasing, and Logistics—and Technology systems.

The Senior Product Designer focuses on the food itself, collaborating across these disciplines to understand how ingredients, processing, and manufacturing capabilities can improve the product experience. You will partner closely with the Sr. Development Scientist, who leads commercialization trials, scale-up readiness, and technical transfer to Manufacturing.

Key Responsibilities

1. Own the Product Experience

• Design sous vide protein products and fresh prepared foods for REVEL and customer innovation programs.
• Translate customer and consumer needs into clear goals for flavor, texture, appearance, nutrition, convenience, and value.
• Create formulations and bench prototypes, refining the details that matter when someone prepares and eats the food.
• Explore new applications and product formats enabled by Fresh Sous Vide, establishing measurable quality targets and clear technical intent.

2. Discover Through Making

• Work from first principles: question assumptions, identify the underlying problem, and test what improves the product.
• Conduct focused experiments, combining sensory judgment with scientific measurement.
• Understand how ingredients, cooking, chilling, packaging, and reheating affect product quality and the eating experience.
• Simplify formulations and methods where possible, maintaining accurate records of findings and design decisions.

3. Partner Through Scale-Up

• Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Product Management on customer discovery, samples, and technical feasibility.
• Provide formulations, product specifications, quality targets, and technical intent to the Sr. Development Scientist, who leads commercialization trials and scale-up.
• Participate in pilot and plant trials, assess results against the intended product experience, and refine formulations with the development team.
• Collaborate with Purchasing, Logistics, Technical Services, Technology, Manufacturing, and Food Safety & Quality to preserve product intent through production and support required evaluations and approvals.

Ownership and Collaboration

This role owns product science, formulation, bench design, and technical intent, with direction from the CEO and Chief Science & Innovation Officer. You remain engaged through scale-up to assess product performance and guide formulation refinements.

You will work closely with:

• Sales, Marketing, and Product Management , which lead customer relationships, market opportunities, and customer requirements.
• The Sr. Development Scientist within Supply Chain’s Commercialization function , who leads development trials, scale-up coordination, manufacturing-readiness evidence, and technical transfer to Manufacturing.
• Purchasing and Logistics , which support material sourcing and supply readiness.
• Technical Services and Technology , which contribute technical expertise, systems, and data capabilities.
• Manufacturing and Engineering , which participate in development and lead production validation and ongoing execution.
• Food Safety & Quality , which provide required safety and quality review, validation, and approval.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Meat Science, Food Engineering, or a related discipline.
• A clear passion for designing food products, supported by examples from professional, academic, or independent projects.
• First-principles thinking and the ability to explain why a product behaves as it does.
• Understanding of protein and ingredient functionality, thermal processing, and refrigerated food quality.
• Ability to plan and conduct bench experiments, assess results, and refine formulations.
• Strong sensory judgment, analytical skills, and disciplined technical documentation.
• The ability to communicate a design clearly, welcome critique, and solve problems collaboratively across functions.

Preferred Experience

• Three or more years of experience with sous vide, cooked proteins, vacuum packaging, or refrigerated prepared foods.
• Supporting pilot or plant trials and translating culinary concepts into repeatable formulations and manufacturing specifications.
• Designing for reheating performance, component compatibility, texture, moisture retention, and shelf-life quality.

What Success Looks Like

You create food people want to eat again. You can explain why it works, document how to make it, and partner with Commercialization and Manufacturing to reproduce the intended product experience consistently. Your work expands what Deli Star’s Fresh Sous Vide system can offer.

We value curiosity, thoughtful challenge, careful execution, and the willingness to keep improving.