Director of Commercialization

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

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good culture

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2014

🍽️ Food & Beverage

👥 B2C

🌍 Social Impact

Food & Beverage • B2C • Social Impact

Good Culture is an American food brand that makes organic, thick-and-creamy dairy products — primarily cottage cheese, sour cream, and cream cheese — marketed to consumers as high-protein, real-ingredient options with live & active cultures and no artificial ingredients. The company emphasizes sourcing from family farms, offers lactose-free options, engages consumers via social channels and recipes, and highlights sustainability and farmer-support efforts (partnering with 1% for the Planet and donating a percentage of organic revenue toward regenerative agriculture and pasture improvements). Good Culture's products are sold at retail and promoted directly to consumers; the brand cites strong customer reviews and social-media-driven growth since about 2015. Based in Austin, Texas.

📋 Description

• Own end-to-end commercialization of new products and innovation from R&D handoff and feasibility through line trials, scale-up, and full production launch • Lead and develop Engineering and Continuous Improvement teams • Set priorities, build capability, and hold teams accountable to standards and timelines • Specify new equipment and lead capital installation and improvement projects end-to-end • Ensure projects are delivered on time, on budget, and to standard • Lead commissioning of new production lines and facilities • Drive continuous improvement across the network in yield, waste, OEE, and cost • Partner with R&D to assess manufacturing feasibility • Vet prospective facilities and co-manufacturing partners and maintain technical standards • Collaborate with Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, and R&D • Own capital and project budgets for commercialization, engineering, and continuous improvement • Report progress to executive leadership • Help shape manufacturing and processing operations across the network as the company scales

🎯 Requirements

• Must have hands-on dairy processing experience with real time spent on the plant floor; cottage cheese and cultured dairy experience strongly preferred; broader cheese-making experience considered • 10+ years of progressive plant engineering, manufacturing, and continuous improvement experience, including people leadership • Proven track record commercializing new products from concept through line trials and into full-scale production • Experience leading Engineering and/or Continuous Improvement teams • Strong command of capital planning, equipment specification, and line or facility commissioning • Experience working with or inside co-manufacturers • Ability to drive results through influence and rapport, not just direct authority • Ability to thrive in a lean, scrappy, fast-moving environment without big-company infrastructure • Ability to build process and rigor where none exists yet • Strong people leadership, including building capable teams, giving direct feedback, handling tension productively, and building rapport quickly • Based in the Chicago area or broader Midwest • Ability to travel 40–60% of the time • Degree in engineering, food science, or dairy science is a plus, not required

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer • Diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce • Inclusive work environment