Senior R&D Chef: Scale-Up Culinary Innovator

Coursekingdom; Germany (OH); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning & Development

Factor Meals

Compensation & Time Off

Health & Wellbeing

Future & Flexibility

Job summary

Factor is seeking a Senior R&D Chef to lead end-to-end culinary recipe development for our healthy, ready-to-heat meal platform. You will drive new recipes across all diet types while meeting cost and nutrition targets, and collaborate with Operations, Nutrition, Procurement, and Menu Planning to deliver top-quality products.

Reporting to the Culinary Lead, you will ideate, editorialize, bench-test, and document iterations, ensuring scalable recipes for large-scale production and ongoing

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience creating recipes or running a large kitchen operation.
• Strong understanding of scaling recipes for production and cost control.
• Proactive communication and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop weekly recipes meeting product priorities, nutrition targets, cost targets and production constraints.
• Improve existing recipes using customer feedback and performance data.
• Analyze market trends and competitor activity to inform future development.
• Bench-test new recipes and run panel tastings to refine products.
• Input and track recipes in development tools with clear documentation and history.
• Collaborate with Sourcing to approve new ingredients balancing quality and cost.
• Work with Commercialization Chefs to ensure recipes are scalable and well tested.
• Coordinate with kitchen production to adapt recipes for substitutions while maintaining quality.

Skills

Recipe development

Large-scale production

Communication

Project management

Entrepreneurial mindset

Education

Culinary Science degree

Job description

Factor is seeking a Senior R&D Chef to lead end-to-end culinary recipe development for our healthy, ready-to-heat meal platform. You will drive new recipes across all diet types while meeting cost and nutrition targets, and collaborate with Operations, Nutrition, Procurement, and Menu Planning to deliver top-quality products.

Reporting to the Culinary Lead, you will ideate, editorialize, bench-test, and document iterations, ensuring scalable recipes for large-scale production and ongoing