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 current category of food-tech.
- You’ll have direct access to the founder, real ownership of outcomes, and the opportunity to shape how an entire operation runs from day one.
- When we succeed, this role will be career-defining.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

- Hands-on and comfortable being on the ground, driving execution end-to-end
- Graduate of a Management Training Program (MTP) from a reputed 5-star hotel, OR 2–5 years as a Junior Sous Chef / Sous Chef in a five-star hotel environment.
- Experience in mass production, banquet, or bulk cooking operations — you’ve cooked at scale and understand batch control.
- Deeply disciplined and detail oriented. You find comfort in systems, checklists, and repeatable processes.
- Calm under pressure. Structured and firm in execution — not reactive or ad hoc.
- Comfortable operating within strict SOP-driven environments.
- Hands-on. You lead from the pass, not from a desk.

WHY THIS ROLE IS DIFFERENT

Annapoorna is intentionally early. This is a foundational role in building our kitchen operations from 0 to 1. You will translate our culinary vision into consistent, scalable execution while establishing the processes, standards, and systems that will define our kitchens as we grow. What you build here will become the operating playbook for the future.

OUR BELIEFS

- Nourishment is the point; taste is how it wins daily. We engineer wellbeing people crave.
- Your craft, multiplied. The goal is to encode expertise into a system, so the best day becomes every customer's everyday.
- We find joy in consistency. Beautifully reliable execution is the standard.
- Every role is a mandate. You own outcomes, co-create the how and shape important decisions from week one.
- The mission is above all of us. Shared service, low egos and bold decisions.
- We are building a soul. The culture is being deliberately shaped by the people who arrive first.

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