Food MSAT Senior Manager

About us:

Based in Berkeley, CA, UPSIDE Foods grows meat, poultry, and seafood directly from real animal cells. These products are not vegan or vegetarian—they are delicious meat, made without the need to raise and slaughter billions of animals. In doing so, the company aims to address some of the most pressing environmental, animal welfare, and public health challenges, while still giving people the meat they love.

Founded as the world’s first cultivated meat company in 2015, UPSIDE Foods (formerly Memphis Meats) has achieved numerous industry-defining milestones, including being the first company to produce multiple species of meat (beef, chicken, and duck) and to sell a cultivated meat product in the United States. The company believes that people shouldn’t have to choose between the foods they love and a thriving planet, and is working to build a better food system with access to delicious, humane, and sustainable meat, poultry, and seafood.

UPSIDE Foods has won various industry awards, including New York Times’ Good Tech Awards, FastCo’s Next Big Thing in Tech and World Changing Ideas Awards, and the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in the Nation by the National Association for Business Resources. UPSIDE Foods has raised a total of $608 million, including from the Abu Dhabi Growth Fund (ADG), Baillie Gifford, Bill Gates, Cargill, John Doerr, John Mackey, Kimbal and Christiana Musk, Norwest, Richard Branson, Softbank, Temasek, Threshold, Tyson Foods, and others.

About this job:

The Food MSAT Senior Manager will report to the VP of Process Development. The Food MSAT Senior Manager will be accountable for translating and integrating benchtop and pilot scale product development innovations into “For Sale” commercialized products at industrial scale. This role will support a variety of commercial functions to ensure products are successfully launched and represent the quality and innovation through delivery to the final consumer. Acting as the SME for meat processing operations at an industrial scale, Food MSAT will be a source of expertise & guidance to ensure enterprise success.

Responsibilities include:

• Lead design & development of food manufacturing processes for commercial launches.
• Manage manufacturing launch activities on for sale, commercial-ready products In partnership with Food R&D, FSQA, Regulatory, SC, and Manufacturing Ops.
• Ensure seamless translation to commercial scale manufacturing of “For Sale” products by successfully supporting workstreams with co-dependent groups including Regulatory, FSQA, Food R&D, Product Management, and Manufacturing.
• Lead the architectural, process, and mechanical architectural, process, and mechanical design of any USDA food manufacturing spaces for existing and future CapEx projects.
• Support the identification, evaluation, selection, and installation of commercial scale equipment for food manufacturing technologies and development of operating procedures.
• Work with a portfolio of equipment vendors to obtain designs, process flows, and layouts to support manufacturing line designs.
• Lead packaging material selection & implementation. material selection & implementation.
• Support regulatory filings and facility compliance for USDA establishment establishment and label approvals.
• Serve as in-house SME for industrial scale food food commercialization and meat processing technologies.
• Draft raw meat material & finished product specifications through commercialization.
• Collaborate with the scalable tissue team to develop innovations that bridge meat processing manufacturing sciences and novel tissue processing technologies.
• Mentor team members to accomplish key objectives.

About you:

• B.S. in food process engineering, meat or food science, industrial engineering/operations, biology, or other related fields.
• 4+ years experience as a food process engineer, product developer, or food manufacturing plant manager.
• Advanced knowledge of common meat or alternative protein processing equipment required, specifically within fresh meat processing and further processing technologies.
• Advanced knowledge of sanitary plant design principles.
• High self-accountability; being able to execute on individual commitments independently while also working collaboratively within a team.
• Understanding of USDA FSIS inspection process and product standard of identification.
• Able to dissect complex manufacturing operations, and direct a team to achieve specific end results on tight schedules.
• Great organizational and project management skills, and consistently communicates to ensure reliability with a safety, efficiency, and quality mindset.
• Ability to work and communicate cross functionally at all levels within the organization.
• Passionate about applying your technical skills to making delicious meat products.
• Can-do attitude, full of integrity, excited to work under our Big Tent philosophy.

Who you’ll work with:

• This role will partner with Food Manufacturing, Product Development, Bioprocess Process R&D, Sensory, and Regulatory teams to commercialize cultivated meat production technologies.

Compensation Range: $140,000 - $165,000*
*Pay may vary depending on factors including job-related knowledge and skills.

UPSIDE Benefits!

• Stock options for all full-time incoming team members!
• 90-100% employer-paid healthcare premiums for team members (medical [including HSA and FSA], dental, and vision)
• Pet insurance for your furry family members!
• Unlimited PTO
• Employee Engagement Council
• Company-sponsored learning & development opportunities

UPSIDE Foods is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Our company-wide mission is to create a product for everyone, so we are deeply committed to having teams and leaders that reflect this mission.