Sous Chef at Project Annapoorna

Gurugram | Founding Team | Sous Chef

THE OPPORTUNITY
Project Annapoorna is building a daily nourishment utility for urban India: live kitchens making fresh, home-style meals every day, with technology and processes designed to deliver taste, freshness and nutrition consistently. Our first live kitchen is coming up in Gurugram, and the first six months are the pilot where the team will prove that people return every day, the kitchen performs at full rush, the economics work, and the learning becomes a repeatable operating system.

We’re building in the daily-meals / food-tech space. We’re hiring a Founding Sous Chef / Kitchen Operations lead to help build this from zero to one. You will be responsible for translating standardized recipes and SOPs into flawless, large-scale daily production without deviation. You’ll own what happens inside the kitchen: the output, the process, the team, and the quality. This is a founding role. You won’t be executing someone else’s playbook; you’ll be writing it. If you enjoy building systems while running production,



this could be the most defining stretch of your career.

WHAT YOU WILL OWN
SOP Execution at Scale: Own end-to-end production against standardized recipes and processes.
Mass Production Excellence: Run high-volume daily meal production with precision — batch planning, mise en place discipline, timing, and throughput.
Quality & Process Discipline: Enforce food safety, hygiene, and consistency standards. Build and maintain checklists, audits, and quality gates.
Team Supervision: Lead kitchen staff with clarity and calm. Set expectations, train relentlessly, and hold the line on discipline.
Build the Kitchen Playbook: Work closely with the founder to define and refine SOPs, workflows, and operating rhythms for kitchen operations as the company scales.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE
You’ll be one of the earliest members of the founding team. It’s a chance to build the kitchen that feeds a recent categ

📌 Sous Chef – Kitchen Operations Lead (Gurugram)
🏢 Project Annapoorna
📍 Gurugram