Senior Scientist Beverage Innovation

Summary

This role focuses on Beverage Innovation and plays a key role in bringing creativity and technical excellence to our seasonal café latte program and broader flavor innovation pipeline for Wholesale and DTC. This role bridges the café and CPG worlds - developing and scaling recipes that delight consumers in-store while aligning with our branded CPG platform.

This individual will lead development of seasonal café lattes using signature syrups in collaboration with café operations, R&D, and commercialization teams. They will also support the wholesale business by creating new and distinctive flavor experiences that drive growth and reinforce our leadership in coffee innovation.

Responsibilities

• Latte Development: Lead creation and execution of café seasonal beverages, draft lattes, and different beverages (teas, refreshers, functional etc) - from trend identification and concepting to bench development, tasting, and rollout. Keeping recipes lean, simple and easy to execute
• Syrup & Flavor Formulation: Develop proprietary syrups, sauces, and flavor systems for café and wholesale channels with an emphasis on natural, high-quality ingredients
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with R&D, Marketing, Café Operations, and Supply Chain to ensure seasonal café recipes align with brand standards and can translate into scalable CPG formats
• Wholesale/DTC Innovation: Create new flavor offerings and limited-time beverages that support wholesale partners and expand brand reach
• Trend & Insight Tracking: Stay current on coffeehouse trends, emerging ingredients, and consumer flavor preferences; share insights that inspire new product directions
• Quality & Consistency: Ensure all recipes meet quality, sensory, and operational standards - both in the café and in production environments

Requirements

• Proven experience in coffee, café beverage development, or culinary innovation (3-5 years preferred)

• Understanding of restaurant operations

• Strong understanding of recipe formulation, flavor balancing, and ingredient functionality.

• Hands-on experience with syrup or sauce creation and latte development.

• Deep love of coffee and genuine curiosity for flavors, trends, and craftsmanship.

• Highly collaborative - thrives in team environments and cross-functional settings.

• Strong agility and comfort shifting between café, bench-top, pilot plant, and manufacturing settings.

• Excellent sensory, organizational, and communication skills.

About Us

Chobani is a food maker with a mission of making high-quality and nutritious food accessible to more people, while elevating our communities and making the world a healthier place. In short: making good food for all. In support of this mission, Chobani is a purpose-driven, people-first, food-and-wellness-focused company, and has been since its founding in 2005 by Hamdi Ulukaya, an immigrant to the U.S. The Company manufactures yogurt, oat milk, and creamers - Chobani yogurt is America's No.1 yogurt brand, made with natural ingredients without artificial preservatives. Following the 2023 acquisition of La Colombe, a leading coffee roaster with a shared commitment to quality, craftmanship and impact, the Company began selling cold-pressed espresso and lattes on tap at cafés nationwide, as well as Ready to Drink (RTD) coffee beverages at retail. In 2025, Chobani acquired Daily Harvest, a modern brand offering consumers nutritious, delicious and convenient ready-to-make meals.

Chobani uses food as a force for good in the world - putting humanity first in everything it does. The company's philanthropic efforts prioritize giving back to its communities and beyond. Chobani manufactures its products in New York, Idaho, Michigan and Australia, and its products are available throughout North America and distributed in Australia and other select markets.

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Chobani is an equal opportunity employer. Chobani will not discriminate against any applicant for employment on any basis including, but not limited to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, military and/or veteran status, marital status, predisposing genetic characteristics and genetic information, or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws.

Chobani provides a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision coverage, disability insurance, health savings account, flexible spending accounts, and tuition reimbursement. To help save for the future, all employees are eligible for a 401k match of 100% on up to 5% of eligible pay. To support growing families, we provide fertility and childcare assistance, and 12 weeks of parental leave at full pay after six months of continuous employment. In addition, we provide wellness resources which include an employee assistance program, fitness discounts, a wellness reimbursement, on-site gym access (certain locations) and a monthly wellness newsletter to connect you with resources and timely information. We offer various types of paid time of including: 120 hours of paid time off, 11 holidays, paid volunteer time off and military service leave.

Compensation Range: $94,000.00 - $141,000.00, plus bonus.