Company description
Frø is a Brooklyn-based Danish bakery dedicated to bringing authentic Scandinavian baking traditions to the United States. Best known for its traditional 100% sourdough Danish rye bread (rugbrød), Frø combines time-honored recipes with locally sourced Northeast grains to create wholesome, deeply flavorful baked goods made without preservatives or shortcuts. Alongside its signature breads, Frø offers seasonal pastries, cardamom buns, and other Scandinavian specialties, sharing a modern taste of Denmark through beautiful craftsmanship, thoughtful design, and exceptional ingredients.
Job description
This holiday season, Frø has been selected to participate in one of New York City's premier holiday markets. We're looking for an exceptional baker and production leader to help us scale for our biggest season yet.
This is a unique opportunity for someone who loves building systems, leading teams, and taking ownership of a fast-paced artisan food operation.
This role will begin with a 10-12 week run to complete the holiday market, at which point we will assess if this team member is equipped to continue on leading and scaling our bakery production into 2027.
The Role
The role consists of two phases:
Phase 1: Planning & Onboarding (4–6 Weeks)
You'll work closely with our founding team to prepare every aspect of production for the holiday season.
Responsibilities include:
- Learn Frø's recipes, methods, and quality standards (and elevate them)
- Work alongside the founders to develop new products
- Develop production schedules and workflows
- Forecast production volumes and ingredient needs
- Build and refine operational systems
- Help recruit, train, and onboard production staff
- Lead trial production days and process improvements
- Ensure the team is fully prepared for launch
Phase 2: Holiday Production (6 Weeks)
During the holiday market, you'll lead our bakery operations through our busiest and most exciting season.
Responsibilities include:
- Lead daily bakery production
- Manage and motivate the production team
- Maintain exceptional product quality and consistency
- Coordinate inventory and production planning
- Troubleshoot operational challenges in real time
- Continuously improve efficiency while maintaining craftsmanship
- Work alongside the founder to ensure successful execution throughout the season
- This is an intensive leadership role. The holiday production period will require flexibility, long days, and weekend work as needed to support the success of the operation.
Who You Are
We're looking for someone who thrives under pressure and genuinely enjoys building something.
You might be a great fit if you:
- Have significant experience in artisan bakery production
- Have managed bakery production or kitchen operations
- Are an excellent people manager and trainer
- Stay calm and solutions-oriented during busy services
- Are highly organized and detail-oriented
- Care deeply about quality and consistency
- Enjoy creating systems that help teams succeed
- Experience scaling production, opening bakeries, or leading high-volume artisan operations is highly valued
Compensation: $20,000 guaranteed project fee +$5000 Performance bonus available based on successful completion of the project assuming baseline achievement of production goals (managing costs relative to production volumes, maintaining quality, meeting production requirements, minimizing waste).
++ Opportunity to stay on with Frø in a part time or full time capacity moving forward. Our business is growing rapidly and we are looking for long term team players to come out of this short term opportunity!
Compensation
this position is: salaried, $75,000 - $100,000
Application instructions
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Deadline
August 31, 2026