Job Description
Good Eggs delivers absurdly fresh groceries, easy weeknight meal kits, pantry staples, and alcohol straight to your door. We are pioneering a better way for people to feed their family, without settling. We believe good food is the most powerful force for change: For our families, our farmers, our employees, and our environment.
About the Role
The Recipe Editor will manage the process in the Good Eggs Test Kitchen to make simple, fresh, home-cooked dinners as hassle-free as humanly possible. This position will manage the translation process from concept to recipe card, with particular focus on making sure that recipes meet Good Eggs’ culinary tenets and that our welcoming, optimistic, warm and encouraging brand voice is maintained.
Responsibilities
- Strong recipe writing and copy editing skills; specifically, writing recipes in a concise and digestible manner for novice cooks
- Maintain recipe brand voice and style guide
- Edit meal kit recipes for clarity, fit, voice, and style
- Ensure accuracy and clarity of recipe and eliminate recipe errors if/when product changes are made
- Interact easily and confidently with multiple stakeholders to ensure recipe deadlines are met
- Manage recipe development process with multiple contributors
- Support creation of production side recipes to ensure that Good Eggs Kitchen components are aligned with customer expectations
- Maintain a safe and well-organized working environment
- Operate and sanitize all equipment in a safe and proper manner
- Follow and comply with established procedures, including Weights and Measures, health and sanitation
- Perform other duties and assignments as directed
Qualifications
- Minimum 3+ years professional working experience in recipe editing
- Degree in Culinary School, Nutrition, Food Science or Journalism preferred
- Outstanding writing skills across recipe and prose
- Detail-oriented and highly organized
- Proactive, ambitious, and assertive: you take ownership of your work and think beyond the scope of a given assignment
- Committed to providing quality goods, championing local purveyors, and advocating for environmental stewardship.
- Strong Google Suite skills and an aptitude for learning proprietary software
- Excellent command of grammar and the English language
- Food safety certification and nutritional analysis knowledge preferred
Why work for Good Eggs?
• Work for a purpose-driven company
• An incredible work environment with passionate, diverse, and accomplished team members
• Benefits include employer-assisted health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, 401k, flexible spending accounts (FSA), 20% off groceries, Flex vacation + 10 holidays, generous parental leave, & the opportunity for an unpaid sabbatical after 2 years.
• Meaningful equity is provided to all employees
• The opportunity to work for a pioneering company in a trillion dollar market that is quickly shifting online
• Guidance from an all-star board including Bill Gurley (Benchmark Capital, #2 on the Midas List), Danny Rimer (Index Ventures), Chuck Templeton (Managing Director of S2G Ventures and founder of Open Table), and Vishal Vasishth (Obvious Ventures).
Good Eggs provides equal employment opportunities for team members and candidates regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, military status or disability in accordance with local, state and federal guidelines. We hire and promote individuals based on their qualifications for the position to be filled. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce.
