Fat is good. "Vegetable" oils are bad. Bad for us. Bad for the planet.
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
This is an awesome opportunity to join a rapidly growing start-up while continuing to grow your career in talent. Responsibilities will run the gamut of the employee lifecycle including, but not limited to, recruitment, employee onboarding and engagement, and employee benefits design.
Responsibilities
- You will develop and administer various aspects of the employee lifecycle (including onboarding, offboarding, employee changes), with a focus on employee experience and compliance, in partnership with cross functional teams.
- You will be the first point of contact for employee questions and requests including benefits escalating as appropriate.
- You will own systems administration and maintenance (Gusto, Greenhouse) and continue to evaluate systems in our HR tech stack as we scale.
- You will develop and manage all policies, HR compliance and the employee handbook.
- You will act as a Talent Advisor, manage the end-to-end recruiting lifecycle from conducting recruiting strategy meetings to crafting requisitions to development and execution of the sourcing strategy, to facilitating the candidate selection process to closing and pre-boarding.
- You will focus on continuous improvement opportunities that benefit our candidate and employee experience while aligning to our values
- You will source qualified candidates and continue to build pipeline with growth in mind
You and Your Experience
Requirements through our Values:
- Purpose: You have a passion for our mission and believe a healthier world is possible with better oils and fats.
- Quality: Focus on the quality of our team and how we are hiring and the balance of moving fast but also ensuring we don’t lose quality over speed. You have a strong attention to detail.
- Everyone: There is room for everyone on this farm - we want less polarization/divisiveness, we want to bring people together, not push people apart. Within this role it’s critical to ensure voices are heard- candidates, employees and how our decisions also impact our customers.
Other Experience and Qualifications:
- 4+ years of experience working within recruitment and/or people operations with a strong interest in both functions and learning and developing across the people function.
- Experience building high quality and diverse candidate pipelines for full recruitment cycles, using creative sourcing techniques when necessary
- Ability to and a proven track record of building strong, collaborative stakeholder and candidate relationships
- You operate with a growth mindset
- Strong ability to prioritize and re-prioritize
- Excellent communication skills! You’re able to provide stakeholders with timely and concise information; you know that multiple mediums of communication are the key to success.
- High degree of integrity and are able to maintain confidentiality at all times
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.