Director of Culinary Operations – Food Systems

🕒 August 22

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

⚙️ Operations

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Expert VA

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11 - 50 employees

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

🏥 Healthcare

Logistics • Marketing • Healthcare

Expert VA is a virtual assistant service provider that delivers expert-level support to help businesses operate efficiently and grow. The company employs highly experienced virtual assistants who are trained to manage a variety of tasks such as customer support, digital marketing, and real estate assistance among others. Expert VA emphasizes a structured approach to business processes and offers time-tracking software to enhance productivity, allowing business owners to focus on their core activities.

📋 Description

• Assess products, menus, recipes, and suppliers using data, reports, and remote evidence review • Diagnose and direct fixes for taste, consistency, and food-safety failures through the on-site Head Chef and location teams • Build controlled recipes and process standards with clear tolerances and version control • Lead menu engineering by fixing, repositioning, or removing underperforming products • Establish food-safety and traceability controls, including root-cause analysis on failures • Recruit, train, and develop culinary leaders across locations remotely • Own the culinary drivers of food cost, waste, and margin • Build systems, standards, and leadership practices that keep quality consistent across every location

🎯 Requirements

• Significant senior culinary leadership in a complex, multi-location environment • Proven ability to restore product quality and build repeatable systems — not just cook well • Comfortable leading and directing kitchen execution remotely, through on-site leads • Strong understanding of food cost, yield, and labor economics • Food safety and quality assurance experience • Advanced, practical use of AI and data tools for culinary management • Experience managing across multiple concepts, cuisines, or dayparts (bonus) • Experience directing culinary teams remotely or across distributed locations (bonus) • Beverage operations or dining service experience (bonus) • Track record building training and succession pipelines for culinary teams (bonus) • Ability to lead and influence kitchen teams effectively without being physically present • Ability to balance exacting culinary standards with commercial judgment

🏖️ Benefits

• HMO (health insurance) • Paid time off (PTO) • Work from anywhere • Opportunities for promotion • Pay raise