# Research & Development Director (Culinary)

Position Overview The Director of Research & Development is a culinary innovator, strategic operator, and people leader who runs Orbital Kitchens' R&D function. The Director owns product development from concept through commercialization, delivering products that taste great, hit margin targets, and run consistently at volume across our 20+ brands and production kitchens. Key Responsibilities R&D Strategy: Set the culinary R&D strategy based on company growth objectives, brand priorities, market opportunities, and operational needs. Build and prioritize an innovation pipeline that maximizes return on R&D resources. Product Development: Lead the development and improvement of menu items, recipes, ingredients, concepts, processes, and technologies. Set gold standards for taste, quality, consistency, scalability, and profitability. R&D Process & Commercialization: Own the full product lifecycle, including concept development, recipe testing, food costing, yield and shelf-life testing, stabilization, large-batch validation, tastings and approvals, launch, and post-launch review. Run concurrent projects with clear priorities, timelines, and success criteria. Team Leadership: Build, ment

- **Id**: 3837090
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/orbital-kitchens-research-development-director-culinary>
- **Role**: Hospitality
- **Role family**: Hospitality
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T17:27:01Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T13:55:24Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 6
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3161
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Delivery, Catering & Food Services

## Company

- **Id**: 695233
- **Name**: Orbital Kitchens
- **Domain**: orbitalkitchens.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/orbitalkitchens>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Breezy

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 6

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T21:23:21Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 5
- **Expected fill days**: 38
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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