Sous Chef - San Jose

About the Team

The DoorDash Kitchens team is a part of DoorDash's New Delivery Models and launches and operates shared 'dark kitchens' for restaurateurs looking to grow their business. This is a small but mighty team helping scale DoorDash Kitchens.

About the Role

You'll cook multiple culinary concepts and supervise the daily operations of our DoorDash-operated kitchen. You will ensure that food orders are cooked and fulfilled to the highest standard, while supporting broader operations through ordering and inventory. You will lead multiple cooks in the kitchen to make sure they are successful, operating with quality and speed while maintaining food safety compliance. You will report to the Culinary Manager.

• Culinary Execution. Cook and expedite orders overseeing the day-to-day culinary operations.

• Shift Supervision. Oversee and supervise line cooks, prep cooks, and dishwashers while on their shift ensuring food quality, health and safety of the kitchen facility and overall.

• People Management Responsible for supervising culinary staff throughout the shift to ensure quality food preparation and sanitary clean-up and escalating cause for discipline to Manager.

• Process Development Enacts SOPs around safety, cleanliness, inventory, and food preparation. Develop ways to streamline operations while still ensuring high standards for food preparation

• Administration This role will need to take inventory, place orders with vendors, develop prep lists and other administrative tasks to support the overall success of the operation.

Other duties as assigned

You're excited about this opportunity because you...

• Are cuisine-curious and love to cook across multiple culinary concepts

• Love to build processes and see a plan in action

• Are passionate about cooking consistently from a playbook

• Want to work in new restaurant models including delivery-only environments

• Excited about learning more.

We're excited about you because…

• You have 1-2 years or more experience cooking and managing a fast-casual, QSR, or full-service restaurants

• You have 1 years of experience supervising a team including scheduling

• You have a ServeSafe Managers License and have meticulous cleanliness standards

Compensation

The location-specific base salary range for this position is listed below. Compensation in other geographies may vary.

Actual compensation within the pay range will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior relevant experience, and specific work location. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, base salary is localized according to employee work location. Please discuss your intended work location with your recruiter for more information.

DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being, and that's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package, for full-time employees, that includes healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan including an employer match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellbeing benefits, paid time off, paid parental leave, and several paid holidays, among others.

In addition to base salary, the compensation package for this role also includes opportunities for equity grants.

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