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Employment type:
Full time
Experience required:
Intermediate
Salary
Salary not provided
About the company:
Our mission is simple: to eradicate the use of toxic vegetable oils in our food system.
These destructive oils are hidden in everything, from salad dressings and condiments, to fast food and Michelin-starred restaurants, accounting for 20% of our daily calories.
Vegetable oils have been linked to weight gain, diabetes, cancer, cognitive decline, heart disease, autoimmune disease, and more. They increase risk of death by 62% — more than heavy drinking or moderate smoking — and are a leading cause of deforestation and climate change.
Zero Acre Farms is replacing the most problematic part of our food system with oils and fats that don't make us sick or destroy the planet.
And we’re doing it by introducing a new category of healthy oils and fats, made by fermentation, not deforestation.
Fermentation is the original culinary art, after fire. We use this ancient technique in a revolutionary way to produce oils and fats with the lowest levels of bad fats linked to inflammation and disease, while having a small environmental footprint.
As a team of food lovers, nutritionists, innovators, doctors, and PhDs, we’re banding together to save our health and planet without sacrificing the foods we love.
The world needs an oil change. We hope you join us.
Why We Exist
We believe a healthier world is possible with better oils and fats.
Vegetable oils account for 20% of our daily calories and have been linked to chronic disease, inflammation, obesity, and cognitive decline, as well as deforestation, biodiversity loss, and climate change, with no end in sight.
Vegetable oils are now the most consumed food in the world behind rice and wheat and are the fastest growing sub sector of global agriculture. More vegetable oil is consumed globally than all beef, chicken, cheese, and shrimp, combined.
The world needs an oil change.
Zero Acre Farms is on a mission to replace destructive vegetable oils in the food system with healthier, more sustainable oils and fats made by fermentation. Our first product, Cultured Oil, just launched DTC as we look ahead to retail, foodservice, and food manufacturing expansion.
Our Team
We’re a team of food lovers, nutrition believers, innovators, doctors, sustainability advocates, PhD’s, and problem solvers. We believe in taking care of our health and our planet’s health without sacrificing the foods we love. We started Zero Acre Farms out of concern for what we’re all involuntarily putting into our bodies and the profound effect it’s having on our health and the natural world.
Zero Acre Farms is backed by an incredible group of investors, including mission-driven VC’s, celebrities, influencers, and change makers.
The Role
Zero Acre Farms is looking for an organized and mission-driven individual to help unblock our founding team from the day to day to focus on the most value-add business objectives, and to make sure that the founders are supported and nothing slips through the cracks.We are looking for an experienced assistant to execute day-to-day activities, administrative tasks and occasional special projects for the CEO, other executives, key-stakeholders, and by proxy the broader team where needed.
The right person will have a passion for coming alongside the CEO and a desire to put lasting infrastructure in place to bring his big vision into reality. It’s a big role, and we need someone who has the ability to ramp up quickly when it comes to new information and learning new things. Therefore, we’re looking for someone with deep career ambitions as an assistant to the CEO and someone who truly believes in the value of this role as their calling.
Responsibilities
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Schedule meetings and assist with coordinating a clean and simple calendar for our CEO. This includes the preparation for those meetings.
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Take day-to-day administrative tasks off the founders’ plates which may include organizing inboxes and responding to emails, ordering lunches, and coordinating with external parties for board meetings, speaking engagements and other events.
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Manage personal and business travel for co-founders and occasionally for business travel for CEO’s direct reports.
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Organize and coordinate team and leadership offsites, support details for other conferences/events as needed.
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Occasional personal tasks like picking up dry cleaning, scheduling cleaners, finding a gift, returning clothes, etc.
Requirements
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You are passionate about supporting healthy foods that don’t squander the Earth’s natural resources.
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You love to help; you are a supportive problem-solver.
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Quick to anticipate needs and build a plan with limited direction.
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Organized, detail-oriented and have an ability to multitask across a broad range of tasks.
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Previous experience supporting a high-growth startup founder/CEO.
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Good to strong proficiency with technology such as Microsoft and Google calendars, email, and office applications such as Excel/Sheets, Word/Docs, and PowerPoint/Slides, as well as experience making travel arrangements and coordinating executive schedules.
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Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role: The estimated pay range for this role is $64,000-$100,000. Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Zero Acre Farms benefits and equity programs.
A Note From Our Founders
The majority of Americans are sick. Let that sink in. More people have a chronic disease than not in this country! 6 out of 10. And a hundred years ago, almost no one had a chronic disease. Our healthy life expectancy is decreasing for the first time in recorded history. Our solution so far has been more prescription drugs (in 2018, the average American filled eighteen prescriptions).
Our planet is also being destroyed by the day. The Amazon loses about 2 football fields of rainforest every minute, mostly to grow industrial monocrops like seed oils that make us sick. Species extinction is at an all time high. Some projections say we only have 60 harvests left before our soil doesn't support any more life.
The real issue? These problems are interconnected. We're destroying the planet to grow food that makes us sick.
How is this not one of the most important, urgent, and talked about issues of our generation? We want to change that. We want to slow down and ideally reverse the skyrocketing rates of chronic disease and environmental impact caused by what we eat. We truly believe that we can save millions of lives, as well as millions of acres of rainforest, if we are successful in our mission of replacing destructive vegetable oils in our food supply.
That’s what drives us, and we hope you’ll join us.
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