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As the culinary voice of CHEF iQ, you blend culinary expertise, culinary science, and project management to define how our smart kitchen products should perform, and you prove it through rigorous, repeatable testing. Your work shapes the food people cook at home and how safely they cook it. Quality is the heart of this job.\nWhat you’ll do\nBe the culinary voice\nDefine and communicate culinary performance and experience standards for all CHEF iQ products\nGive culinary feedback on hardware, firmware, software, and UI/UX\nChallenge product decisions that compromise cooking performance or food safety, backed by testing data\nMaintain quality control for all CHEF iQ products and content\nTest and validate\nWrite, standardize, and maintain testing procedures so results are repeatable across testers, units, and SKUs\nAssess products at each development stage, with clear, concise feedback and recommendations\nTest and validate every firmware and app release, documenting bugs, features, and enhancements for the right team\nOversee presets for all products, tested with real food\nKnow the market\nDevelop product function charts and run market research, including competitive testing, to set quality benchmarks\nTrack competitor launches and culinary features, and turn them into product and positioning recommendations\nManage and collaborate\nManage culinary workstreams on new products, including timelines, deliverables, and milestones\nBe the main contact for product-related culinary questions across teams\nPartner with UI/UX, Software, Firmware, and Product Development on features and new products\nPresent testing results to Product Development with clear recommendations\nKeep spreadsheets current and show where each product stands\nContent, marketing, and sales\nOrganize all Guided Cooking recipe content for development and release\nSupport Marketing, Copywriting, photo, and video teams on content, functionality explanations, and packaging review\nSupport Sales with product demonstrations, cooking demos, and product inquiries\nWhat you bring\nRequired\nBachelor’s degree in Culinary Science, Culinary Arts, or a related field, or a culinary degree plus equivalent hands-on experience\n3+ years of culinary experience in product development or test kitchen work\n2+ years of project management or coordination experience, ideally on cross-functional product teams\nHands-on experience writing and running product or food testing procedures\nExperience with competitive testing, benchmarking, or market research for consumer products\nSkills\nExtensive culinary expertise, including technique and validating standards, with a deep understanding of smart kitchen technologies. 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