Brand coordinator

Summary
We’re looking for a branding and marketing hire to help us create a more sustainable food system. You are a story and data-driven marketer eager to take on all types of marketing challenges, from field research to storytelling to brand design. Most importantly, you share our values. This position is based in Oakland, CA and offers competitive salary and equity.

About Tezza
Tezza is an early-stage public benefit corporation focused on addressing climate change and sustainability. Our vision is a world where on every menu, grocery shelf, and table, the most exciting foods are also the most sustainable. To achieve this, our mission is to use modern, high-throughput science to discover cultured foods that tap into the diversity of the microbial world.

We are starting with a new category of aged, hard cheeses—that happen to be made from plants. The dairy industry produces more than 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions—more than aviation—and poses further sustainability as well as animal-welfare challenges. We provide better, more affordable, and healthier products that bring people together around a shared love of food.

About the position
You will be working with us to create a more sustainable world by deepening people’s connections with each other and their food. Some of your responsibilities will include:

• With the Tezza team and consulting designers, writers, and other creatives, create a brand that furthers our sustainability mission
• Rigorously test market hypotheses by collecting and analyzing data from field and digital marketing experiments
• Talk to and understand our customers, from individuals to large corporations
• Work with vendors and partners to spread knowledge about our mission and products
• Produce articles, videos, stories, and posts that explore food, culture, people, sustainability, science, and Tezza’s particular journey to support those pieces of society
• Publish that work over social media and other media outlets

Qualifications

• Experience growing a brand from early stages of development and deployment to realizing a coherent identity and voice
• Demonstrated fluency in communicating through different media (articles, video, images, websites, social, letters)
• Ability to hire and recruit uncommonly capable people
• A deeply held conviction in our mission and values
• Desire to take on daunting marketing challenges with zeal

What do you get out of it?

• Work on global sustainability problems via a hands-on, tasty product
• Large growth potential in different areas (management, research, operations, manufacturing, branding, etc)
• Learn about different aspects of building an early-stage startup
• We focus on growth, and we hire you not for this position, but for your next three positions. We will work with you to craft a learning plan to achieve your personal and career goals, at Tezza or elsewhere
• A chance to build the kind of place where you’d like to work

If interested, what should you do?
We build relationships thoughtfully, and this approach takes time. Over multiple conversations, we will seek to understand how we can support you, and hopefully you will find out whether we are a good fit for your goals or simply a bunch of nutcases. You can learn about our values, hiring process, and benefits here.

To apply, please email join@tezzafoods.com with a resume and responses to the following prompts (a conversational, unpolished tone is fine):

• What motivates you right now? When you think about your short life, what motivates you for the long term? And most importantly, why? Where did those motivations come from?
• What are the most important things that you are striving to improve in yourself? What are you doing to work on them? And how would that work either amplify a superpower or cure an achilles heel?

Tezza is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status. But we acknowledge that we are flawed humans within a flawed society. We do our best and apologize and learn when that’s not enough.