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Ideal for a fun, passionate baker who enjoys testing recipes and believes "mise en place" is a must!

START DATE: Tuesday, April 8, 2025

COMPENSATION: $25.00 per hour

W-2, Non-exempt

SCHEDULE:

Part-time (20-24 Hours per Week) Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday

9:00am-5:00pm Phoenix Standard Time

LOCATION: Hybrid in Phoenix*, AZ

Mondays work from your home kitchen

Tuesdays and Wednesdays work onsite in studio kitchen

*Candidates must live within 30 minutes of the Phoenix Mountain Preserve, and have a home kitchen to test recipes and prepare baked goods

Here at Handle the Heat™, we're passionate about traditional baking (no Keto recipes) and the science of sweets. We're a small but mighty team, and millions worldwide enjoy our recipes and baking tips.

We LOVE what we do and are looking for someone equally excited and eager about helping our audience improve their baking skills with every recipe posted as we grow and scale.

Our Founder and CEO, Tessa, needs a kitchen assistant to be a second pair of hands to test recipes and prepare for production days.

Handle the Heat Core Values

1% Better Every Day

We strive for continuous improvement. We are constantly learning, growing, and evolving. Self-development is of the utmost importance in bringing your best self to work.

Creativity

We champion curiosity, innovation, experimentation, and imagination to achieve amazing results. We believe with an open, inquisitive, courageous, and flexible mind, anyone can be creative.

Celebration

We invite an authentic expression of joy and happiness into work by wholeheartedly celebrating wins. As individuals, on behalf of colleagues, on behalf of audience members, and collectively as a team. We're constantly finding new ways to expand our capacity for self-celebration and recognizing and owning our accomplishments.

Conscientiousness

We are responsible, organized, hard-working, goal-directed, thorough, independent, and reliable. Although we understand mistakes happen and are even encouraged to facilitate learning and growth, we do our best to do right by the company, by our colleagues, and by our customers.

Elegance

We find streamlined, simple, and clear ways to organize, process, systematize and communicate detailed information both internally as a team and externally as a brand to our audience.

Work with Us, Grow with Us

We expect continuous learning and self-improvement. For some, continuous learning is focused on becoming better versions of their current role. For others, the motivation is professional and personal development to earn the opportunity for increased responsibility.

As our Kitchen Assistant, you will play a critical role in developing new recipes, articles, and videos, all created to spread joy, inspiration, and baking education to our community of hundreds of thousands of home bakers.

Key Responsibilities with Success Metrics

#1 Test recipes by preparing the sweet treat according to the original recipe, document your steps, and prepare a revised recipe with provided adjustments for Tessa's review.

Success Metric: Test four recipes each week

Success Metric: Prepare a succinct weekly report that documents the recipes you tested, the testing process, and recommended recipe revisions. Deliver the report to Tessa by 5:00 PM Phoenix Time on Thursday each week.

#2 Bake and prepare provided recipes to various steps of completion in your home kitchen for Tessa to complete and film on production days, including 1-2 backup batches in case of errors that require a restart.

Success Metric: All baked goods are prepared in advance and brought to the production kitchen ready to film.

#3 Maintain a clean, organized kitchen with a fully stocked pantry for photo and video production days, recipe testing, and everyday use.

Success Metric: 100% of ingredients are available as needed

Success Metric: Make an average of 2 grocery trips per week to re-stock ingredients

Kitchen Assistant Ideal Candidate Characteristics

• Baking excites you - even the ingredient preparation, grocery shopping, and dish washing
• You love to cross off to-dos and live inside your planner or calendar app
• Friends and family call you a "people-pleaser," but you simply enjoy making people's lives easier
• You are detail-oriented, but also able to communicate succinctly
• You have experience in the hospitality or food service industry - and LOVE providing great customer experiences
• Google Suite is easy to navigate for you (Gmail, Calendar, Docs, etc.) and you are tech savvy in general

Benefits & Perks

• Lunch provided on production days
• Annual all-expenses paid team retreat
  
  • Past retreat destinations have included San Diego and Park City!
• Professional and self-development resources and training
• Paid Sick Leave
• 401K
• Baking supplies and equipment provided to your home kitchen as needed (maintained as company property)
• Mileage and ingredient reimbursement

COMPENSATION: $25.00 per hour

APPLICATION PROCESS

1. Apply online
2. Complete The ALL IN Assessment online within 24 hours of application (Approximately 35 minutes to complete)
3. Screening Interview via Zoom (Approximately 15 minutes)
4. Skills Test (Approximately 45 minutes)
5. In-Person Deep Dive Interview (Approximately 1.5 hours)
6. Team Shadow Day "Experience a Day in the Life with Us" (4 hours PAID)