# Executive Sous Chef

**Company**: SpaceXAI
**Location**: Palo Alto, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $100,000 - $165,000 USD
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Executive Sous Chef plays a vital role in SpaceXAI's success, overseeing teams in multiple outlets, ensuring consistency across food offerings, and coordinating employee engagement activities.

## Responsibilities:

- Follow, set, and enforce standards of operation in multiple kitchen outlets and service formats

- Support the executive chef and/or sous chefs with operations, team development, and overall department management

- Enforce food and general workplace safety in all food services areas

- Train staff on work planning materials, safety protocols, and health inspection guidelines

- Oversee hiring and disciplinary decisions for their team

- Coordinate successful openings of new outlets, with a focus on VIP experiences

- Plan and meet cost per head targets

- Support hiring, development, retention, and team management for all food service staff

## Basic Qualifications:

- High school diploma or equivalency certificate

- Culinary degree and 4+ years of industry experience; or 6+ years of industry experience

- 2+ years of experience in a multi-outlet operation facility

- Kitchen and/or dining area renovation/construction experience

- Ability to carry heavy items (up to 25 lbs.)

- ServSafe/equivalent state-recognized manager level food handler certification

- Ability to stand for long periods (up to 8 hours a day)

- Frequent bending, stooping, and lifting of objects

- Availability to work all shifts, extended hours, and weekends

- Participation in internal leadership and development training

- Willingness to travel occasionally

- Valid Driver's License

- Valid Food Managers Certification

## Preferred Skills and Experience:

- Culinary degree

- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Outlook software

- Experience in a corporate environment

- High-volume or batch cooking experience

- Leading a group of 20 or more team members

- Advanced knowledge of kitchen equipment and safe kitchen operations

- Excellent communication skills

## Compensation and Benefits:

$100,000 - $165,000 USD Base salary is part of our total rewards package, which includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various discounts and perks.

## Skills

### Required
- Culinary degree
- ServSafe certification
- kitchen operations
- team management
- food safety
- Microsoft Office

### Nice to have
- corporate environment experience
- high-volume cooking experience
- leadership skills
- advanced kitchen equipment knowledge
- excellent communication skills

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