Job description
Who We Are:
Our story began in 2011 when a group of office workers at a major logistics company in Chicago had a lunch problem. Nearby options were limited, and the team was spending too much time and money traveling to their favorite restaurants. These foodies had an idea: connect with local chefs and bring their culture inside the office to sell food from their authentic restaurants. It was an immediate hit. When they discovered people from other companies sneaking into their office, they knew they were on to something.
Fooda pioneered the concept of rotating Popup restaurants inside offices. Today, we operate in 45 cities with over 100 million meals served and continue to grow rapidly. Powered by technology and a network of 3,500+ restaurants, we feed hungry people at work through a platform of unique food programs located within companies, office buildings, hospitals, schools, distribution centers, and more. At Fooda, we believe a workplace food program should be something employees love and look forward to every day. Eight out of ten employees believe Fooda is one of their company’s top perks.
What You Will Be Doing:
The Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) is a high-impact role embedded within the Foodsby business. This individual will focus on identifying, evaluating, and supporting operational ideas that improve performance, scalability, and unit economics.
This role sits at the intersection of sales, operations, finance, and strategy and is responsible for defining and tracking all activities from post-sale to after launch, ensuring each new Foodsby site achieves operational readiness and early order volume. Rather than owning day-to-day execution, the EIR will research opportunities, define experiments, track results, and ensure operational decisions are grounded in strong financial logic and P&L discipline.
The initial focus of this role is on the Foodsby product. This role is hybrid, with three days per week in the Chicago headquarters office.
What You’ll Do
You will be responsible for developing, testing, and refining a scalable launch playbook that ensures consistent execution, strong unit economics, and rapid consumer adoption for the Foodsby product.
Research, Analysis & Experiment Design
- Identify operational opportunities across the Foodsby business worth testing or further investigation.
- Research workflows, demand patterns, cost structures, and performance data to surface insights and improvement opportunities.
- Partner with Fooda leadership to define hypotheses, success metrics, and evaluation frameworks for operational initiatives.
Financial & P&L Analysis
- Evaluate Foodsby initiatives through a P&L and unit economics lens, ensuring operational decisions align with margin, cost, and growth goals.
- Build and maintain financial models to assess profitability, sensitivity, and scalability of proposed changes.
- Serve as a financial thought partner to the Foodsby team, helping translate operational activity into clear financial outcomes.
Tracking, Reporting & Project Management
- Track active initiatives and experiments, ensuring clear timelines, owners, and deliverables.
- Develop clear reporting artifacts (dashboards, summaries, memos) that communicate results, learnings, and recommendations to stakeholders.
- Ensure experiments and insights are well-documented so learnings can be scaled or reused across the business.
Cross-Functional Partnership & Support
- Partner closely with Operations, Sales, Finance, and other teams to gather inputs, validate assumptions, and pressure-test ideas.
- Act as a flexible utility player, supporting leadership with analysis, research, and special projects as business needs evolve.
Who You Are:
- Entrepreneurial and comfortable operating in ambiguity—you enjoy figuring out what works before it’s obvious.
- Highly analytical, with strong financial acumen and comfort owning a P&L perspective.
- Fluent in unit economics, cost drivers, and financial tradeoffs.
- Organized and detail-oriented, with strong project management and follow-through skills.
- Clear communicator who can synthesize complex information into concise insights and recommendations.
- Comfortable spending time in spreadsheets, collaborating with stakeholders, and occasionally observing operations in the field—but primarily focused on analysis, insight, and decision support rather than execution.
What We’ll Hook You Up With:
- Competitive market salary and stock options, based on experience
- Flexible PTO
- Comprehensive health, dental and vision plans
- Flexible spending accounts
- Paid maternity and parental leave options
- 401k matching
- Company Issued laptop
- Daily subsidized lunch program (ours!) and free food and beverages in the office
- A fulfilling, challenging adventure of a work experience
Must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. No phone calls or recruiters please.
The salary range for this role is $100,000-$150,000. The base salary is dependent on a number of factors, included but not limited to: work experience, training, location, and skills.
