Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer (gn) @ VC-Backed Food Venture, Berlin

About the Venture

We are oni, a group of passionate entrepreneurs with the ambition to redefine grab & go food for the next generation of consumers. Our mission is to bring tasty, more affordable, and convenient food options to millions of people across Europe. We are starting up our operations in Berlin before expanding across several German and European cities to become the new leader in our category.

The way food is served in restaurants has remained mostly unchanged for decades, leading to inefficiencies, high operational complexity, and high final consumer prices. For oni we built a reliable and cost-effective operational model that limits the complexity in our shops and allows us to focus on what we do best: being great hosts and providing unique food experiences.

oni was founded by leaders who have previously built and scaled food-tech, e-commerce, and food-retail businesses across Europe. oni is also backed by top-tier VC investors and prominent business angels from the food sector.

What success looks like in the early months:

• You have developed a clear plan to bring oni’s store operations to the next level and to make the business ready to scale across different districts and cities

• You identified improvement opportunities in our current quality assurance processes and started implementing them

• You developed a blueprint for hiring people for new locations, training them, and enabling them to grow within the company

• You took ownership of understanding how to bring our food products to different channels and started evaluating different opportunities

• You set up routines with the store teams and developed key performance indicators (KPIs) to ensure proper monitoring of each location’s performance

What you need to succeed:

• +4 years' experience in scaling up a business in a demanding, fast-paced environment.

• Experience in the food retail industry is a strong plus

• Track record in operations management and improvement

• Entrepreneurial, ambitious, and results-driven, with a passion for making an impact and exceeding targets

• Attentive to priorities, responsiveness, quality, and deadlines

• Ability to communicate effectively, influence, and lead change

• Fluency in English & German

What we offer:

• Steep growth. We have the right team and resources to successfully launch several locations in Berlin by the end of 2024

• The opportunity to join the founding team at a very early stage and co-create the next big food consumer brand in Europe

• A super-central modern workspace in Berlin Mitte shared with other fast-growing consumer companies and like-minded individuals

What we value:

• Obsession for hospitality - We deeply care about everyone who enters our stores and is committed to providing them with top-notch food experiences

• Passion for invention - We want to make an impact and be challenged. It's what drives us to constantly improve our products and processes

• Extreme trust - We give people full freedom to do their best work. Mistakes are welcome, fast iterations are mandatory

• Long-term thinking - We collectively own what we build. We think long-term, make decisions together, and take responsibility for our mistakes

• Radical candor - We strive to create an egoless environment where everyone is encouraged to be transparent and vulnerable, with the common goal of growing into better individuals