Product Development Pastry Chef

Role Description

Some culinary careers are defined by a restaurant, a menu, or a signature dish. This role offers the opportunity to create products that will be made hundreds of millions of times and become part of how people eat for generations.

We are seeking an exceptional culinary professional with an extraordinary passion for food to develop the next generation of iconic American foods. Our goal is to preserve everything people love about these products—the flavor, texture, pleasure, and familiarity—while using better ingredients, less sugar, and a more advanced understanding of food and food science.

This is highly detailed and creative hands-on work. A product may require hundreds or thousands of iterations before it is perfected and ready. The person in this role must care deeply about every variable, understand why each result occurred, and continue refining until the product is truly exceptional.

You will take ideas from benchtop development through commercial production at the scale of millions of pounds and hundreds of millions of pieces. This is a rare opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the future of food.

Responsibilities

• Create, test, refine, and perfect new and existing food products, recipes, formulations, processes, and techniques
• Apply culinary expertise, a scientific approach, and structured experimentation to develop and perfect flavor, texture, stability, nutrition, and manufacturability
• Take product formulations from early benchtop development through pilot trials, commercialization, and large-scale production
• Develop products across categories including chocolate, confections, gummies, nougats, baked products, frozen desserts, and related foods
• Conduct ingredient research, competitive benchmarking, advanced tastings, and sensory evaluations
• Design and manage shelf-life, stability, and quality testing
• Prepare samples, tasting panels, presentations, and client demonstrations
• Maintain complete and accurate digital records of formulations, processes, material usage, testing conditions, observations, and results
• Create training documents, process guides, and instructional videos
• Train, onboard, manage, and develop team members
• Work closely with clients, suppliers, manufacturers, and technical partners
• Manage ingredients, materials, inventory, product information, equipment, and development priorities in our digital recipe and inventory systems
• Operate, maintain, and clean culinary, laboratory, and production equipment
• Maintain an exceptionally clean, organized, and professional development environment
• Continue developing expertise through research, experimentation, and specialized education

Qualifications

• Five or more years of relevant experience in an exceptional restaurant, recognized food company, culinary organization, or product-development environment
• An unusually high level of passion for food and commitment to product quality
• Strong culinary judgment and a highly developed palate
• Demonstrated experience leading, developing, and motivating high-performing teams
• Expertise in chocolate and tempering, confections, gummies, nougats, baking, and/or related categories; including the ingredient science behind them.
• Experience with structured tasting, sensory evaluation, and iterative product development
• Ability to combine creative thinking with scientific and analytical problem-solving
• Experience scaling recipes or formulations from benchtop development to commercial production
• A science background or a strong grounding in food science fundamentals, and the curiosity to dive deeply into a product, ingredient, process, or technical challenge
• Exceptional attention to detail, organization, cleanliness, and documentation
• Methodical and organized, with a perfectionist’s standards and love of learning
• Coachable and eager to learn the founder’s approach
• Experience managing complex projects and priorities
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong computer skills, including Google Drive, Excel, Microsoft Word, and digital systems for recipe documentation and inventory management

Preferred Qualifications

• Degree in food science, culinary arts, pastry, or a related field
• Specialized training in confections, chocolate, sensory science, ice cream and gelato, and/or baking
• Experience in elite culinary environments and/or commercial food manufacturing

This role is for someone who wants their work to extend far beyond a single kitchen.

It is an opportunity to apply the standards of exceptional food innovators and restaurants to products made at extraordinary scale—and to create food that may still matter decades from now.

You will work closely with our founder. In the first months, about half of your time will go to learning his methods and standards firsthand.

About Playfull

Playfull is a food innovation and product development company that works with brands including UNREAL. Playfull’s founder has created products for UNREAL and played a leading role in its recipe development. This role is employed by Playfull and is not a position with UNREAL.

Pay: $80,000.00 - $120,000.00 per year

Ability to Commute:

• Miami Beach, FL 33139 (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

Plata: $80,000 - $120,000 a year

Izvor: https://indeed.com/viewjob?jk=e86e05c04c7eece1

Nivo: mid level