Füm

Flavor Development Technician

Füm United States

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Füm exists to accelerate humanity's departure from destructive habits and empower individuals to be free to become their optimal self. Join us on our mission to help 1 million people quit vaping or smoking by 2026. Our patented, award winning flavored air device is designed to help people to achieve their full potential by replacing their bad habit with The Good Habit™ - that’s us!

Company Values

Our culture sets us apart and helps us identify our best fit candidates for new roles. Review our values below to see what type of team you’d be joining. We love CHEWI team members!

  • Can-Do Attitude: Are you someone who starts with ambitious goals and finds optimistic, resourceful, proactive, and creative methods to achieve them?
  • Honesty: Are you committed to actively communicating and building trusting relationships through open and honest interactions?
  • Empowerment: Do you want to join a team where you will support other ambitious and talented people to achieve their goals, and be supported in return?
  • We Over Me: Are you someone who looks at the bigger picture and takes ownership of the team's success by making it a priority for everyone to succeed?
  • Integrity and Commitment: Can you be relied upon to do what you say you will, when you say you will do it? If not, are you comfortable owning it and making good on the shortcoming?

Why You’ll enjoy working at Füm

Füm takes great pride and works hard to establish and manage employee-progressive policies that create satisfying and rewarding work experiences for our team.

  • Have an impact - We are a mission-driven organization that has a direct impact on the health, quality of life and happiness of our customers. We are proud to achieve a 40% efficacy score, and are on track to help 1 million people quit vaping and smoking by 2026.
  • Advance your career - We are a fast-growing company, giving our team a unique experience while creating career advancement opportunities in our growing organization, as our workforce scales to meet market demand for our products and services.
  • Rewarding Compensation - We reward high performance, and structure our salaries and bonuses around unique KPIs for each role. We also allocate a profit sharing fund for our employees, which is distributed annually during the holiday season.
  • Work from Anywhere - We have built our company around a remote-first culture, which means that you will enjoy saving time and money commuting to the office. Instead, you get the freedom to blend your work and life in a way that allows you to perform to your full potential!
  • Unlimited Paid Time Off (upon approval) - We value work-life balance, and understand its role in the wellbeing and productivity of our team. Our unlimited PTO policy is designed to give you autonomy in managing your time off, while ensuring that the needs of your job are met.

Position Overview

The Flavor Development Technician is a key member of the Product Development team and will be responsible for creating, testing, and evaluating new flavors for our Cores, coordinating the flavor components of Cores up until launch. The Flavor Development Technician reports to the Special Projects Director.

Role Mission

The mission of the Flavor Development Technician is to help Füm achieve its vision by creating intense, sweet, and experiential flavors through development and innovation, to meet the needs of customers as they create their Good Habit and set Füm as the best in the flavored air category. They will be involved in the creation and development of flavor recipes, as well as evaluating and coordinating flavor development samples from external partners.

Responsibilities

  • Innovating how flavor is experienced through Füm and Cores
  • Coordinating flavor vision with Product Development, Marketing, Retail, and Operations teams
  • Developing flavor recipes on a compounds level that wow our customers
  • Managing flavor development relationships with external partners
  • Evaluating flavor samples from external partners against flavor goals, food grade specifications, and overall experience with our product
  • Evaluating supply chain resilience with the Inventory Manager for flavors
  • Matching flavors for supply chain changes
  • Verifying flavor quality periodically from different points in the Cores manufacturing process for quality control
  • Coordinating flavor testing with internal team and creating reports on feedback
  • Managing relationships with Focus Group partners, facilitating testing, and creating reports to share with the wider team

Key Performance Indicators

  • Number of Cores flavors created per month, meeting all requirements for creating a good flavor for Füm
  • Ratio of flavors created vs. approved
  • Flavor ratings from focus groups and internal teams for the categories of intensity, sweetness, and experience.
  • Customer feedback score on Cores launched & initial go to market performance
  • Revenue performance by flavor
  • Customer return rate and retail restock rates on specific flavors

Proficiencies

  • Strong ability to taste and articulate flavor notes and attributes
  • Previous experience in flavor development, specifically in adjacent flavor industries
  • Understanding of flavor ingredients such as Essential Oils and Terpenes and ability to create good flavors with them
  • Ability to articulate and coordinate around specific flavor ingredients with team members and external partners
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Strong problem solving and analytical skills
  • Creative outlook and innovative mindset

Bonus Qualifications

  • Market experience in vaping and smoking to understand the needs of our customers as they create a Good Habit
  • Previous experience in a marketing related role that involved flavored products

Compensation

The compensation will be $90,000-110,000 CDN ($66,000-81,000 USD) annually OTE.

Hours

It is expected that the responsibilities of this role be met, without hours being firmly set. Availability for team correspondence and meetings is Monday-Friday 08:00-16:00 MST.

Remote pending co-working space availability in the candidate’s area
  • Seniority level

    Entry level
  • Employment type

    Full-time
  • Job function

    Management and Manufacturing
  • Industries

    Wellness and Fitness Services

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