Technical Lead Product Development & Scale-Up

Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat (In office)

Employment Type: Full-time

About Charyas:

At Charya’s, we’re building the world’s first Millet Wellness Platform, creating clean-label, functional foods that combine nutrition, food science, and great taste. From gut-friendly bars and baked snacks to next-generation wellness products, we develop products that are backed by science and designed for real-world manufacturing.

Our culture is built around rapid experimentation, ownership, and execution. If you enjoy solving technical challenges and building products from concept to commercial scale, you'll thrive here.

Why This Role Exists

We’re looking for a hands-on Technical Lead who can bridge the gap between food science and manufacturing.

This role is for someone who enjoys developing formulations, troubleshooting production challenges, improving processes, and scaling products from the lab to commercial production.

You won’t just develop recipes-you’ll build products that can be manufactured consistently and efficiently.

Educational Qualifications

M.Tech in Food Engineering & Technology, Food Science and Technology, Food Processing Engineering, Food Technology, Food Safety and Quality Assurance, Food Processing Technology.

What You'll Do

1. Build New Product Platforms

Lead the development of new product platforms from idea to commercialization by defining problem statements, developing technical strategies, building Product Initiation Documents (PIDs), designing experiments (DOE), and converting concepts into commercially viable products.

Examples include:

- Fully Crunchy Platform
- Functional Mineral Bars
- Baked Bar Platform
- Flakes Platform
- Future Functional Nutrition Products

2.



Own Product Development Workstreams

Drive multiple product workstreams simultaneously through structured technical development.

Activities include

- Problem Statement Development
- PID preparation
- DOE planning
- Prototype development
- Optimization
- Validation
- Commercial transfer

Your work should move projects through clearly defined technical stages instead of isolated formulation trials. This reflects your staged development approach from problem definition through commercialization.

3. Lead Formulation & Ingredient Innovation

Develop and optimize formulations by understanding ingredient functionality, processing behaviour, nutritional impact, sensory performance and commercial feasibility.

Typical activities include

- Functional ingredient screening
- Mineral ingredient optimization
- Texture engineering
- Flavour optimization
- Ingredient replacement
- Clean-label reformulation
- Cost optimization

4. Design Scientific Experiments

Plan and execute structured Design of Experiments (DOE) instead of relying on trial-and-error.

Areas include

- Texture optimization
- Flavour optimization
- Ingredient replacement
- Processing parameters
- Functional ingredients
- Scale-up validation

5. Engineer Manufacturing Processes

Develop manufacturing processes alongside formulations.

Responsibilities include

- Mixing optimization
- Garnishing engineering




- Process standardization
- Critical parameter optimization

6. Commercialize Products

Convert successful laboratory products into repeatable manufacturing systems.

Activities include

- Scale-up planning
- Pilot plant trials
- Manufacturing validation
- Production troubleshooting
- Commercial transfer documentation
- SOP preparation
- Technology transfer

7. Develop Product Knowledge Systems

Create technical documentation that enables repeatable development.

This includes

- Product Information Documents (PID)
- DOE documents
- Scale-up protocols
- Process documentation
- Technology transfer documents
- Engineering documents
- Manufacturing SOPs

8. Drive Technical Innovation

Explore new ingredients, technologies and manufacturing methods that strengthen Charya's product platforms.

Examples include

- Resistant starch
- Novel flakes
- Ingredient technologies
- Manufacturing equipment
- Functional nutrition concepts

9. Build External Technical Ecosystem

Work with

- Ingredient suppliers
- Machinery manufacturers
- Universities
- Research institutes
- Testing laboratories
- Technology partners

to identify new technologies, validate concepts and accelerate commercialization.

Your planner includes vendor scouting, FATs, lab partnerships, and university collaborations

1. Build Manufacturing-Ready Systems

Your success is not measured by the number of formulations developed.

It is measured by your ability to build products that

- are commercially scalable,
- are scientifically validated,
- are fully documented,
- are manufacturing-ready,
- can be transferred to production without technical dependency.

Apply

Email: [email protected]

📌 Technical Lead (Ahmedabad)
🏢 Charyas
📍 Ahmedabad