Senior Manager, Produce Quality

• Build and maintain strong relationships with growers and shippers to ensure Hungryroot's quality standards are consistently met.
• Partner with suppliers on quality expectations, shelf-life requirements, and corrective actions.
• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve specifications across bulk and co-manufactured produce.
• Partner with Category Management, Planning, Operations, and FSQA to provide technical guidance on assortment decisions.
• Provide technical leadership on produce inspection, grading, and defect identification in accordance with USDA standards and PACA regulations.
• Train and coach inbound quality teams across the fulfillment center network on standardized inspection procedures.
• Own produce quality performance from customer feedback through corrective action and resolution.
• Oversee in-house retain testing and other quality initiatives to validate supplier shelf-life performance.

• 5–10 years of produce inspection or produce quality experience.
• Deep expertise in USDA grading standards, PACA regulations, and fresh commodity quality assessment.
• Hands-on experience inspecting, grading, and evaluating quality across fresh produce commodities.
• Experience building and managing supplier relationships with growers, shippers, or produce vendors.
• Experience utilizing Claude or other AI tools for job related activities.
• Experience developing, maintaining, and governing produce specifications.
• Experience supporting quality operations across multiple distribution or fulfillment centers.
• Success leading supplier corrective action programs, quality investigations, and supplier performance management.
• Experience training, developing, and standardizing quality practices across distributed operational teams.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to work independently in a remote environment and travel approximately 30–40% for supplier visits.

Pay range: $140K - $160K

• Remote-first work setup
• Equity
• Unlimited vacation policy
• Universal paid parental leave
• Monthly Hungryroot credit for groceries
• Comprehensive health, vision, dental, and life insurance
• 401k with Company Match
• Work from home stipend for initial setup