First Marketing Manager, Chef Robotics

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Figma
Hubspot
Webflow
Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area
Chef Robotics

Autonomous cooking robot developer

Open for applications

Chef Robotics

Autonomous cooking robot developer

21-100 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceFoodManufacturingRoboticsMachine LearningAutomation

Open for applications

Salary not provided
Figma
Hubspot
Webflow
Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

21-100 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceFoodManufacturingRoboticsMachine LearningAutomation

Company mission

To accelerate the advent of intelligent machines in the world to empower humans to do what humans do best.

Role

Who you are

  • Grittiness and ability to be resilient to consistent failure and rejection (especially by journalists)
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Strong grammar skills
  • 5+ years of product marketing experience in a Robotics, RaaS, SaaS or B2B organization
  • Have successfully launched a product before
  • An entrepreneurial and creative mindset with the flexibility to work in a fast-paced, evolving environment and wear multiple hats
  • Experience with startups, including demonstrated growth in a SaaS / RaaS B2B product organization
  • Experience with Webflow
  • Experience with Figma
  • Experience with basic videography, photography, and basic editing
  • Experience with copywriting that focuses on the value and benefits our product can bring to the daily activities of customers
  • Experience with press and PR for trade journals and popular press
  • Experience representing products at trade shows and events; experience putting together and executing trade show strategy
  • Experience with developing useful, strong sales enablement content (hands-on) to support sales efforts, partner sales, and multiple target personas (Presentations (ppt, etc), 1-pagers, Technical sales sheets, Video scripting/storyboarding, etc)
  • Analytical and research-focused, comfortable using marketing automation tools (Hubspot, etc) to drive content and messaging strategies
  • Empathetic, with the ability to connect with customers on multiple levels; strong interviewer

Desirable

  • Industry experience in industrial robotics, supply chain, or material handling

What the job involves

  • In this role, you’d be the first marketing hire at Chef; you’d work very closely with the CEO to:
  • Do Chef’s public release Help create Chef’s brand as the market leader in food robotics and food manipulation
  • Help create Chef’s brand as a leader in Embodied AI
  • Help generate brand awareness in the venture capital community
  • Help generate brand awareness amongst top engineers in Silicon Valley
  • Help generate top-of-funnel leads who may be relevant customers
  • Note that this is an individual contributor position but as the first person doing marketing, it’s a generalist role with the expectation that you’d do whatever is needed. But as the marketing team grows, there will be room to expand if you are successful
  • Help create and lead Chef’s brand and create extremely high brand awareness for the companies among 1) VCs, 2) customers, and 3) engineers
  • Attract strong PR in top popular press publications
  • Attract strong PR in trade journal (food and beverage) publications
  • Lead Chef’s content marketing strategy and write and publish content (blog and written content)
  • Secure podcast speaking positions for leaders at the company
  • Maintain and update Chef’s website (Webflow) and use Figma to design wireframes for website
  • Lead Chef’s effort to create, write, and design customer case studies
  • Lead Chef’s videography efforts (including traveling to customer sites) to collect interviews for case studies
  • Lead Chef’s trade show efforts. Set up the show, get the booth set up, help set up a demo, and manage the trade show end-to-end
  • Lead Chef’s webinars; organize webinars and do marketing around them
  • Lead efforts to generate top-of-funnel for MQLs
  • From time to time, help with doing outbound sales outreach for top of the funnel
  • Lead Chef’s socials and create strong content for them
  • Generally help Chef meet Sales and Revenue goals

Otta's take

Theo Margolius headshot

Theo Margolius

COO of Otta

In recent years, kitchen automation has surged, yet challenges persist in addressing the nuanced complexities of food preparation and assembly.

Chef Robotics tackles this by prioritizing food assembly over cooking, acknowledging the diverse factors that shape culinary outcomes. With its advanced robotics and AI-driven software, ChefOS, the company navigates the intricacies of ingredient preparation, cooking methods, and storage conditions, ensuring consistent quality across diverse recipes and ingredients.

Chef's recent funding round underscores investor confidence in its innovative approach. With a focus on robotics-as-a-service (RaaS), Chef aims to democratize access to advanced automation, offering scalable solutions for food businesses. As it expands across the US and Canada, securing partnerships with Fortune 500 food companies, Chef heralds a future where technology enhances culinary excellence, revolutionizing efficiency and creativity in the kitchen.

Insights

Top investors

54% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Jan 2024

$10.5m

EARLY VC

May 2021

$7.7m

SEED

Total funding: $25.3m

Company values

  • Customer and User Obsession: We’re here to serve our customers and users. Go backwards from the customers and obsess after giving them the best experience possible
  • Deliver results and follow through: Results matter, not "effort." Done is better than perfect. Finish what you start. A documented mistake of an idea that didn't work is positive. Constantly release, test, and deploy little bytes instead of waiting for one large deployment
  • Move with extreme velocity and focus: Velocity matters. We’re serving customers where a little downtime can cost millions. Ship fast and be laser focused on what matters. Work smart and hard
  • Meritocracy to find the truth: The best idea wins not your seniority. Use logic to support your thinking. Always discuss the idea not attack the speaker. When a decision is made, disagree and commit wholly
  • Radical transparency: No passive aggression. If someone isn’t doing something right, tell them. Be brutally honest with feedback and don’t sugar coat anything. Trust in your team
  • Hire the very best people: If enough smart people are in a room together, we'll figure it out. Hire slow rather than to "fill a role."
  • Simplicity and Frugality: Have just enough and no more. Constantly simplify. Always ask: "how could I accomplish what I'm trying to with 10x less money?
  • Play for the name on the front of the jersey: "Play for the name on the front of the jersey...people will start remembering the name on the back." We all have individualistic desires but by working for the good of the company in the short term, you make yourself significantly better off in the long term. When in doubt of how to make a decision, ask: is this in the true, authentic best interest of Chef?
  • Challenge your beliefs and aim to find truth: Assume your ideas are wrong and constantly stress test them. The default is that your idea is wrong and that you have to prove it’s right (not the other way around). Seek diverse perspectives. Always ask why, why, why? Break things down to the first principles and then build back up
  • Take initiative and win: Figure out what needs to be done - without anyone telling you - and then win. We’re here to win not just for a job

Company HQ

Mid-Market, San Francisco, CA

Founders

Previously the co-founder and CEO of ThirdEye Technologies. They now write for both Forbes and TechCrunch alongside being a Managing Partner at Prototype Capital.

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