Manager Beverage Engineering

About Us:

At Botrista, we are transforming beverage culture with intuitive drink-making technology guided by Nature herself. By allowing restaurants to easily expand menus without added complexity, we’re driving incremental growth with the push of a button.

Awarded as one of the Best California Startups in 2023, our beverage solution has created a new industry category, universally applicable to any cuisine, demographic, and business. Our machines are being rapidly deployed around the country for customers to experience & enjoy.

We deliver a world of flavors at your fingertips by sourcing top-tier ingredients from around the globe. Thanks to valuable data collected through our integrated CloudBar system, we easily guide our partners through their drink menu innovation.

Each drink is crafted by nature, and perfected by innovation - we’d love to have you be a part of it.

Position Summary:

As an extension of our industry-leading Beverage Strategy Team, our Manager, Beverage Engineering will report to our VP, Beverage Strategy and work closely with our Executive Chef to apply an ‘always improving’ mindset to existing beverage quality. He/She will be based in our San Francisco home office focused exclusively on elevating the flavor, quality, texture, aroma and appearance of our beverage portfolio. Specifically, this role will be based in the San Francisco office, will use the BotristaPro equipment and existing product supply of high quality concentrates, juices and bases to program improvements to existing beverages and ensure seamless deployments of newly crafted beverages.

Responsibilities:

• Beverage Benchmarking: Define baseline current beverage program satisfaction and consistently strive to improve.
• Beverage Engineering: Leverage existing products and our BotristaPro to improve the flavor and appearance of our beverages.
• Recipe Tracking: As improved and approved, update recipes in CloudBar program and help with account deployment coordination/training.
• Consumer Insights: Develop and execute programs to capture real-life consumer satisfaction on our beverages.
• New Ingredient Introduction: Develop all recipes impacted by new base product introductions/improvements.
• Supplement R&D: Support R&D team on high priority projects.
• Risk Management: Lead effort to quickly accommodate our clients when they run into outages or a supplier has a disruption.
• Financial Accountability: Developing or tweaking recipes to unlock profitability for our clients.
• Great teammate: Whether you’re working with your Beverage Director peers or cross-functional home office departments, you’re a go-to-member of the team. In this role you’ll work with a team that is committed to one common goal: Selling more craft beverages!

Other:

• Natural communicator: Strong written, oral, and visual presentations catered to each audience, frontline, management and ownership. The ability to interact with and clearly present information to all levels of management and stakeholders.
• Obsessed with organization: Superior time management; The ability to work from anywhere, across time zones, over slack, email, cell phone and video calls, with all levels of leadership. Forecast plan and deliver: Understanding of the project scope and prioritizing activities based on business and customer impact. Have strong planning, project management, stage-gate, and execution skills, and the ability to build and manage complex systems and processes.
• Stay in the know: Advanced knowledge of the full life cycle of product development; Equally comfortable with big picture strategic planning and the details of tactical execution and have no trouble switching between macro and micro views.
• Process oriented: Plan and manage product development stages while developing and documenting workflow processes.
• Be a Mentor: Be a coach and trainer to all associates and newcomers to Botrista to develop the open and welcoming culture and we win as a team

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in business management, hospitality, technology management, similar or equivalent business experience
• 3-5 years of experience in product commercialization (ideally beverage related), restaurant management, food-service channel, or in a related industry
• Demonstrated success in executing innovation to deliver on time, within budget, and to consumer and internal expectations
• The ability to adapt to fast changing environments
• Familiarity with Business travel, Slack, PowerBI, Salesforce, ClickUp
• Based in San Francisco, CA

Salary Range: $120,000 - $150,000

Plus bonus and stock options

Benefits

• Fully company-paid Medical and 99% company-paid Dental and Vision Insurance
• 15 days Paid Time Off, 7 sick days, 14 holidays, Wellness Benefits, Cell Phone and Internet reimbursement, 401K
• Beautiful new SF office with outdoor rooftop workspace
• Free beverages with our Bot, snacks, and Wednesday lunches