FoodTech Product Owner

Company: Kefilo
Role Type: Equity-Based Founding Role
Work Mode: Remote / Hybrid
Commitment: 20-25 hours/week

About Kefilo

Kefilo is building a NutritionTech and personalised wellness transformation platform where food is used as a medium for nutrition, healing and long-term lifestyle transformation.

Kefilo combines functional nutrition, food science, personalised wellness, technology, AI and intelligent food manufacturing to develop products and systems that can deliver personalised nutrition at scale.

Our current RD focus is on building the Nutrition Intelligence Engine and a Dark Factory for Food - creating a technology-driven, standardised and scalable approach to nutrition and food product development.

Role Overview

We are looking for a FoodTech Product Owner who can take ownership of food products from problem identification and concept development to formulation, testing, manufacturing, launch and continuous improvement .

This is a founding-level role for someone who can bridge food science, consumer needs, product development, manufacturing and business and turn ideas into commercially viable FoodTech products.

Key Responsibilities

- Food Product Strategy
Identify product opportunities based on consumer needs, nutrition requirements, market gaps and Kefilos long-term NutritionTech vision.

- Product Concept Development
Convert ideas into clear product concepts, specifications, target users, nutritional objectives and product requirements.

- Product Development Formulation
Work closely with food scientists, nutritionists and food processing experts to develop and refine formulations.

- Nutrition Intelligence Integration




Connect food products with Kefilos Nutrition Intelligence Engine to enable personalised product recommendations and nutrition-driven product design.

- Product Testing Validation
Coordinate trials, sensory testing, nutritional validation, shelf-life studies, consumer feedback and product iterations.

- Manufacturing Scale-Up
Work with food processing and manufacturing teams to convert successful formulations into standardised, scalable production processes.

- Product Specifications Documentation
Own product specifications, ingredient standards, formulation documents, process requirements, packaging requirements and quality benchmarks.

- Market Consumer Validation
Conduct customer discovery, market research, competitor analysis and product validation to ensure products solve real customer problems.

- Commercialisation
Work across pricing, packaging, positioning, distribution and launch planning to take products from RD to the market.

- Product Portfolio Management
Manage the product pipeline, prioritise development projects and continuously improve existing products based on data and customer feedback.

- Cross-Functional Product Leadership
Coordinate Food Science, Nutrition, Food Processing, RD, Operations, Technology, Marketing and Sales teams around product development.

- FoodTech Innovation IP
Identify opportunities for recent technologies, processes, formulations,



manufacturing models and proprietary FoodTech innovations that can create long-term competitive advantage for Kefilo.

Ideal Candidate

- Experience in FoodTech, food product development, FMCG, functional foods, nutrition products or food manufacturing

- Strong understanding of the complete food product lifecycle

- Experience taking products from concept to commercialisation

- Ability to work with food scientists, nutritionists and manufacturing teams

- Understanding of food formulation, processing, quality and regulatory requirements

- Strong product thinking and consumer understanding

- Comfortable working with data, experimentation and product validation

- Strong project management and cross-functional coordination skills

- Entrepreneurial mindset with strong ownership and execution ability

- Interest in building new FoodTech products and systems from the ground up

Engagement Terms

- Equity-based founding position

- 20-25 hours/week

- Remote / Hybrid

- No fixed salary at the current stage

- Fixed compensation to be introduced after funding and revenue stabilisation

- Equity based on contribution, responsibility, expertise and long-term commitment

- Core founding team equity subject to a 5-year vesting structure

What You Will Build

You will help build Kefilos Food Product Innovation Engine - taking nutrition and consumer problems, converting them into scientifically designed food products, and building the systems required to develop, manufacture, validate and commercialise them at scale.

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📌 FoodTech Product Owner (Part-time, Equity only) (India)
🏢 Kefilo
📍 India