We're a new Indian food brand on a simple mission: closing nutrition gaps with everyday food made from natural ingredients.

The Role

We're looking for a creative, hands-on chef to develop our high-nutrient snacks from the first test batch to a product ready for market. You'll work closely with the founder and our product development consultant. You'll turn nutrition targets into recipes people genuinely crave, and then make sure they work at scale.

Role Description: The Product Development Chef is a full-time/part-time (based on discussion), on-site role based in Mohali, Punjab. This role is responsible for designing, testing, and refining nutritious food products that align with the organisation’s mission of closing daily nutrition gaps. Day-to-day tasks include developing recipes, standardising formulations, conducting tasting sessions, and collaborating with the founder and nutrition experts to ensure products meet health and safety standards.

The role also involves continuously improving existing products based on customer feedback, market trends, and nutritional insights.

What you'll do

- Develop and refine recipes for high-protein snacks (bars, bites, energy balls and new formats)
- Build one robust base recipe, then create flavour variants on top of it for tasting and testing
- Hit nutrient targets while keeping taste and texture first
- Formulate with whole, plant-based ingredients: nuts, seeds, millets, pulses, dried fruit
- Get sweetness from natural ingredients
- Use processing techniques that protect or boost nutrition
- Test shelf life, texture over time, and how recipes hold up in packaging
- Track ingredient costs per piece
- Document every recipe precisely (weights, methods, batch yields) so it can be repeated consistently




- Run small-batch production for pilots and tastings, and help set up processes for a future production unit
- Keep the kitchen hygienic and compliant with FSSAI standards

What we're looking for

- 3+ years as a chef or product development chef
- Knowledge of nutrition principles, healthy cooking techniques, and ingredient functionality.
- Real experience with healthy, vegan or free-from desserts and snacks
- Comfortable working without dairy, whey, or soy if required, but definitely no sugar.
- A strong feel for Indian flavours and sweets, and for making them lighter without losing the soul.
- Curiosity about nutrition and healthy snacks.
- Organised and detail-oriented.
- Happy in a small, fast-moving startup where you test, taste, fail and try again
- Experience with product testing, sensory evaluation, and standardising recipes for larger-scale production.
- Familiarity with food safety, hygiene standards, and basic regulatory requirements for food products.
- Excellent documentation skills for recording formulations, procedures, and test results.

Nice to have

- Experience with bars, bites or packaged snacks
- Knowledge of food science, shelf-life testing or scaling recipes for production
- Background in a commercial kitchen, bakery or food manufacturing setting
- Familiarity with FSSAI labelling and food safety requirements
- A culinary or nutrition qualification
- Prior experience in R&D; kitchens, food startups, or packaged food product development is an advantage.

What we offer

- The chance to shape a brand's first products from day one
- Real creative ownership. Your recipes go on the shelf
- A small team that values honesty, facts and good food
- Compensation based on discussion

Start Date: ASAP

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