Food Stylist

About Purple Carrot

Purple Carrot started with just a seed of an idea in 2014. Our vision is a world where plant-based eating is at the core of living well. Every day, on this mission, we’re breaking boundaries with plant-based eating. We value learning from customers, an ownership mindset, integrity, winning together, and being bold. We need your expertise on our team to make things happen!

Purple Carrot’s irresistible, globally-inspired meal-kit recipes and prepared meals using fresh ingredients. We are a team of collaborative individuals who drive for results, strive for doing better, make good choices quickly, and embrace a growth mindset to win or learn. Here’s what you’re up for!

Description

Purple Carrot is on a mission to cultivate the plant based revolution, one meal at a time. We are looking for a passionate full time Food Stylist to join our team. Your job will be to work closely with the other members of our Creative and Culinary teams to bring the Purple Carrot vision to life in all of our imagery and video, from e-commerce, lifestyle, paid media, and social content.

We’re looking for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative atmosphere. It’s an extraordinary opportunity to play a vital role in an expanding company with a world-class team and great - and delicious! - perks.

This role is a unique opportunity to straddle the line between creative and culinary, balancing an innovative creative mindset with culinary know-how. 

Location: 

• Purple Carrot HQ is in Needham, MA and prefers local candidates to work onsite in our office/test kitchen 4-5 days a week

On the Plate:

• Cook and style all recipes for lifestyle, e-commerce, and social shoots across our entire PC brand 
• Mise/Prep food in advance for all content shoots.
• Source ingredients and propping
• Share responsibility for care, upkeep, and maintenance of kitchen/studio space
• Maintain, update, and organize in-house props
• Participate in social video filming for recipes
• Work with Visuals Manager to anticipate and plan for styling direction for all meals
• Work within our software for project management to ensure all projects run smoothly and deadlines are met
• Join team preproduction calls to review concepts and deliverables.
• Research best styling practices to continue to innovate and participate in trends

Main Ingredients for the role:

• 1-3 years experience working as a food, props or set stylist.
• Advanced knowledge of cooking, food and food styling
• Knowledge of prop styling
• A strong sense of composition 
• Proven experience managing multiple priorities independently and delivering on deadlines
• Work in a process driven environment including working within systems such as Asana, GSuite and Excel
• Stamina and enthusiasm for aggressive 8-hour shoot days
• Able to work full time on-site in our Needham, MA office/ test kitchen, 4-5 days a week

Extra Special Sauce:

• Experience with working on production sets
• Experience with organizational management systems

Garnish

We love our staff, and show it with benefits (including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, FSA, and life insurance), matching retirement plan, unlimited paid time off, Purple Carrot box allowance, professional development, and the opportunity to work in collaboration with teammates who are passionate about food!

Final Touches

Purple Carrot’s top priority is protecting the health and wellbeing of our team and candidates. The majority of our interviews and assessments occur virtually. If there is a need to interview onsite, we follow COVID-19 guidance from the CDC, WHO, and any state guidelines .

We are committed to a safe and inclusive work environment, free of discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetics, national origin, ancestry, age, medical condition, mental or physical disability, handicap, veteran status, or marital status.