Food Stylist

Job Summary

As a Stylist on our team, you embody our core values: embracing the entrepreneurial spirit, displaying a passion for excellence, and always doing the right thing. You will collaborate with other team members to inspire each other’s creativity while serving the purchasing needs of foodservice professionals. The styling team contributes to creating meaningful images and videos that adhere to our brand standards through thoughtful set and food styling.

We only accept W-2 candidates, H-1B sponsorship is not available.

Responsibilities

As a Food Stylist you will be responsible for both content creation and food styling for the media teams. Your role is key in our mission of developing engaging, accurate, content for foodservice professionals while crafting food that is both appetizing and visually appealing. Reporting to the Styling Manager, you will collaborate with a wide variety of team members including, but not limited to other Stylists, Photo & Video team members and Writers. By drawing inspiration from diverse sources and peers, your creative input will contribute to a supportive, optimistic team environment focused on collaboration, and constant improvement. A portfolio submission is required. 

• Collaborate, communicate and coordinate with food suppliers/grocers, other stylists, producers, videographers, photographers, writers, and assistants on and off set. 
• Follow a weekly production schedule. 
• Stay informed of culinary trends to inspire, pitch and contribute ideas for engaging content and help shape early-stage concepts with culinary insight. 
• Conduct culinary research and review written content for accuracy; apply hands-on skills to prep, plate and style food and drinks. 
• Appear on-camera as needed as talent for tutorials, product features, and brand storytelling.
• Embraces change, shows agility, and is comfortable with ambiguity and working at a fast pace.
• Maintains cleanliness, organizes and has a strong awareness of the studio kitchen inventory. 

Physical Requirements

• Work is performed while sitting/standing and interfacing with a personal computer.
• Requires the ability to communicate effectively using speech, vision, and hearing.
• Requires the regular use of hands for simple grasping and fine manipulations.
• Requires occasional bending, squatting, crawling, climbing, and reaching.
• Requires the ability to occasionally lift, carry, push, or pull medium weights, up to 50lbs.

Working Environment

• Work full-time hours for this in-studio position.
• Stand, squat, reach and lift to 50lbs.
• Culinary skills and repetitive movements including but not limited to stirring, whisking, chopping and other knife skills, broiling, roasting, grilling, baking, searing, sautéing, pan-frying, stir frying and deep-fat frying.
• Commercial kitchen setting that includes a ventilation system, commercial dishwasher and professional equipment.
• Commercial photo/video studio setting with low lighting and flashing strobe lights.
• Low light photo and video studio environments.
• Encounter exposure to: flashing lights from strobes, standard commercial kitchen cleaners, and Loud noises (ex: vacuum, commercial kitchen hood).

Qualifications

Experience

• Can provide a diverse portfolio of work demonstrating expertise in food styling with a variety of foods.
• Have 5+ years' experience as a food stylist, chef, or similar role working in a culinary environment. 
• Associates, BS or BA culinary degree or equivalent experience in a professional capacity in lieu of degree.

Education

This role does not require a degree. We value relevant skills and experience and alignment with our core values above all else.

Desired Traits & Skills

• Culinary skills including but not limited to knife skills, broiling, roasting, grilling, baking, searing, sautéing, pan-frying, stir frying and deep-fat frying.
• Experience developing recipes, menu items or culinary programs. 
• Familiar with ecommerce product photography, digital and social content formats (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, etc.)
• Experience as on-camera talent for food related content is a plus.
• ServSafe certification is preferred but not required.