Senior Product Designer - Fresh Sous Vide

Location: St. Louis, MO Department: DESIGN, Platform & Process R&D Reports to: CEO/Chief Science & Innovation Officer, Justin Siegel About Deli Star: Who We Are Deli Star is a next-generation food manufacturing company with a clear purpose: to nourish life through protein with integrity . We specialize in fresh, sous vide cooked proteins and patented food-safety technologies, serving some of the most trusted brands, and culinary teams across the United States. Our mission is ambitious: to build a world-class fresh sous vide system . We are working towards a future in which safe, nutritious, high-quality protein is fresh and accessible to more people. Deli Star is not a typical food manufacturer. We combine the scientific rigor, quality standards and operational discipline required in food manufacturing with the energy, creativity and entrepreneurial mindset of a growth company. With a team of 150 employees and growing, we are large enough to make a meaningful impact while remaining small enough for talented people to influence how the company evolves. We are proud of our strong customer partnerships, our rapid growth and our long-term commitment to building an innovative, technology-enabled manufacturing platform. Our people-first culture is grounded in three core values: Trust, Resilience, and Creativity . We believe the future belongs to companies that can combine quality, innovation and operational excellence at scale. The Opportunity Help shape the future of fresh food. Deli Star is building a world-class Fresh Sous Vide™ system to make safe, nutritious, high-quality protein fresh and accessible. Our patent-pending Fresh Sous Vide process opens new possibilities for proteins and a broad range of fresh prepared foods, and we’re looking for a designer who can bring them to life. You will combine culinary imagination, scientific rigor, and first-principles thinking to create exceptional protein products and fresh prepared foods people want to eat again. Working directly with our CEO and Chief Science & Innovation Officer and the DESIGN team, you will formulate, make, taste, measure, and refine products for REVEL, our retail brand, and customer innovation programs. This is a hands-on role with meaningful influence. The products you create and the possibilities you uncover will help shape Deli Star’s product and business strategy for many years to come, expanding what Fresh Sous Vide can offer and making eating more nutritious, convenient, and enjoyable. Our DESIGN Team DESIGN connects food science and product design with technical expertise, Supply Chain—including Commercialization, Purchasing, and Logistics—and Technology systems. The Senior Product Designer focuses on the food itself, collaborating across these disciplines to understand how ingredients, processing, and manufacturing capabilities can improve the product experience. You will partner closely with the Sr. Development Scientist, who leads commercialization trials, scale-up readiness, and technical transfer to Manufacturing. Key Responsibilities 1. Own the Product Experience Design sous vide protein products and fresh prepared foods for REVEL and customer innovation programs. Translate customer and consumer needs into clear goals for flavor, texture, appearance, nutrition, convenience, and value. Create formulations and bench prototypes, refining the details that matter when someone prepares and eats the food. Explore new applications and product formats enabled by Fresh Sous Vide, establishing measurable quality targets and clear technical intent. 2. Discover Through Making Work from first principles: question assumptions, identify the underlying problem, and test what improves the product. Conduct focused experiments, combining sensory judgment with scientific measurement. Understand how ingredients, cooking, chilling, packaging, and reheating affect product quality and the eating experience. Simplify formulations and methods where …

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