Food Science Expert Co-Founder & Product Officer

Your key responsibilities will include researching and developing gut-friendly meal formulations, snacks, and nutrition-based grocery kits. You will be optimizing recipes for taste, nutrition, shelf life, and ease of large-scale production while ensuring compliance with FSSAI & global food safety regulations. Developing quality control protocols, standardized preparation methods, and food safety SOPs will also be part of your role.

Furthermore, you will be expected to stay updated on emerging food science trends, experiment with functional foods, and collaborate with nutritionists & dietitians for science-backed meal plans. Designing cost-effective production strategies, identifying B2B opportunities, and working with the marketing team to highlight the scientific benefits of HGK's offerings will also be key aspects of your responsibilities.

The ideal candidate for this role should hold a Masters or Ph.D. in Food Science, Nutrition, Food Technology, or related fields with over 10 years of experience in food product development, R&D, or nutrition-focused food businesses. Expertise in nutritional profiling, formulation of functional foods, meal packaging, shelf-life extension, food safety standards, and regulatory approvals is required. An entrepreneurial mindset, hands-on approach, problem-solving skills, and a passion for gut health and sustainable food innovation are essential qualities we are looking for.

Joining HGK offers an equity-based founding position in a high-growth startup, the opportunity to lead product innovation in a rapidly expanding market, work on cutting-edge food science & nutrition-based solutions, and a potential future leadership role with compensation post-funding. If you are passionate about nutrition, recipe optimization, quality control, food science, product development, food technology, functional foods, innovation, nutritional profiling, food safety standards, and regulatory approvals, we would love to have you on board.,