Sous Chef Tovala
- Date Posted January 11, 2017
- Location Chicago, IL
- Category Culinary
- Job type Full-Time
Tovala is an incredibly smart oven that is paired with a companion meal delivery service that makes home cooking easy. We won the Chicago Booth New Venture Challenge, have raised three rounds of funding, just finished Y Combinator, and recently completed a $255,000 Kickstarter campaign. We were featured in Wired, TechCrunch, Forbes, Food & Wine and more.
As Tovala’s Sous Chef, you will play an integral role in imagining, creating and producing our Tovala meals. You’ll work directly with, and learn from, our Chief Culinary Officer, Alexander Plotkin. We’ll rely on you to help in the test kitchen, create new recipes, test existing recipes, expand our offerings beyond dinner, etc. Unlike traditional food industry roles, we’re also a technology company, meaning that you’ll be working very closely with a diverse team of engineers, designers and business-people.
About you:
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You’re hard-working and disciplined
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You’re curious and eager to learn
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You live for good food so you understand the importance of a good home-cooked meal
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You’ve worked back of house
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You have r&d experience
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You have 1-4 years of professional experience
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You live in Chicago (or are willing to move)!
About the role:
Food is one of the pillars of our business – and our company has grown to the point where it’s time to expand our food team. You will work very closely with Chef Plotkin on the different parts of our food business.
More specifically, your responsibilities will include:
- Testing Chef Plotkin’s recipes (for flavor, texture, shelf-life, etc.)
- Coming up with your own recipes
- Preparing meals for events and meetings
- Helping source, vet and test ingredients
- Consulting with our engineering team as they build version 2 of our oven