Overview In this hands-on role you will transform chef-driven gold standards into testable product prototypes and MVPs, bridging culinary intent with feasible production. You collaborate with chefs, process development, and supply chain to drive rapid iteration, validation, and scale-up readiness. You will document parameters, support pilot runs, and ensure traceability and high-quality prototypes ready for handoff.

This position offers a direct impact on delivering practical, scalable culinary products in a fast-paced R&D; environment.

Responsabilidades

Develop early culinary prototypes and MVPs following guidance from chefs and senior developers

Iterate, reformulate, and adjust recipes to meet gold-standard targets

Document parameters and performance for iteration and scale-up

Support product handling, quality challenges, and pack-out implications

Organize samples, build variants, and prepare materials for sprint reviews and tastings

Collaborate with chefs, process development, supply chain, and quality teams for pilot trials

Troubleshoot during early-stage co-manufacturing or test production runs

Maintain logs of formulas, build notes, test results, ingredients challenges, and learnings





Ensure traceability and development hygiene for all iterations

Deliver high-quality, well-documented prototypes on time within COGS

Foster collaboration across culinary, technical, and operational partners

Enable rapid learning loops feeding into next development cycle

Produce practical, consistent prototypes ready for handoff to senior developers or scale-up leads

Requisitos principales 3–5 years of hands-on product development in food, culinary innovation, or R&D; kitchens

Experience with at least 2 technologies in Savory products (Ready Meals, Frozen foods, Pasteurization, chilled meals, shelf-stable and/or culinary products)

Experience with product commercialization and scale-up

FSQA experience is a major plus

Strong practical culinary ability to prototype quickly and accurately

Comfortable in fast-paced, ambiguous R&D; environments

Familiarity with pilot production or co-manufacturing is a plus

Excellent organization, documentation, collaboration, and communication skills

Ability to find solutions and be proactive collaboration communication problem solving prototype development food science or culinary innovation product commercialization

📌 Product Development Manager, Food Ventures (Barcelona)
🏢 PepsiCo
📍 Barcelona