​​Senior Product Developer​ (f/m/d)

About the job

Let’s make the world a better place one tasty bite at a time.

Planted combines proprietary structuring and fermentation technologies to produce meat from plant proteins, focusing on delicious taste, meaty and juicy texture, while only using clean ingredients. Planted is setting a completely new standard in the plant-based meat category, making it a healthy, delicious and sustainable choice for all. Truly better than meat from animals.

Our growth is driven by a hunger to create a sustainable, healthy, and compassionate future for all – consumers, planet and animals. We are more than a delicious product; we are a mindset. Sustainability, health, and animal welfare are at the core of our identity. We never compromise on quality and our only natural ingredients, ensuring trust with our consumers as well as partners through our commitment to excellence.

Your Mission:

Drive end-to-end product development from ideation to commercialization, ensuring strong alignment with business strategy and consumer needs.

Lead B2B co-development projects by deeply understanding client requirements, tailoring solutions, and enabling successful joint product launches.

Continuously optimize the product portfolio through formulation, cost, and quality improvements based on feedback from production, quality teams, and customers.

Establish and refine processes that accelerate the transfer from development to production while ensuring consistent product quality at scale.

Define and monitor quality parameters and link them to key process variables to ensure reliable and reproducible production outcomes.

Capture, document, and share learnings from development projects to continuously improve team practices and workflows.

Contribute to shaping and maintaining company-wide standards, processes, and quality systems for safe, high-quality products.

You:

Hold a completed Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in (Bio-)Process Engineering, Food Technology, Material Science, or a related field.

Bring at least 3 years of professional experience in the food industry or a similar environment, with a focus on product development; experience in the culinary or meat industry is a plus.

Have strong project management skills and are comfortable taking full ownership to drive cross-functional stakeholders towards product launch.

Bring a strong passion for food and taste, ensuring that technical processes consistently result in premium products.

Possess a hands-on mindset with high attention to detail, particularly regarding master data quality and accurate product documentation.

Have a natural ability to create structure in fast-paced environments and translate vision into scalable workflows.

Are highly ambitious and remain calm under pressure, viewing complex or “impossible” challenges as opportunities for growth.