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# Executive Assistant to the CEO at Kevin's Natural Foods

- **Company:** Kevin's Natural Foods
- **Location:** Imperial Manufacturing Facility & HQ
- **Compensation:** $90k–$130k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kevins-natural-foods/6c9e50ea-4410-4acb-8426-d40655286e2c

## Job description

Kevin's Natural Foods is seeking a highly experienced and exceptionally organized Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer. This role serves as the CEO's trusted partner, providing high-level administrative support that enables the CEO to focus on leading the business and driving enterprise priorities. Beyond supporting the CEO, this individual will provide additional administrative capacity to members of the Executive Leadership Team as CEO priorities allow, helping ensure seamless coordination across the organization. The ideal candidate exercises exceptional judgment, maintains the highest level of discretion, anticipates needs before they arise, is resourceful, and thrives in a fast-paced, high-growth environment while managing multiple priorities and stakeholders at the highest levels of the organization.

## What You'll Do

- Serve as the primary Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer, managing an exceptionally complex calendar, prioritizing commitments, coordinating meetings, and ensuring the CEO's time is aligned with strategic business priorities.
- Provide additional administrative support to members of the Executive Leadership Team as CEO priorities allow, offering capacity during peak workloads, executive travel, leadership meetings, and critical business initiatives.
- Coordinate domestic and international travel arrangements for the CEO, including detailed itineraries, logistics, accommodations, transportation, and contingency planning.
- Manage and prioritize incoming communications on behalf of the CEO, drafting correspondence, screening requests, and ensuring timely follow-up on critical matters.
- Prepare executive presentations, reports, agendas, board materials, meeting materials, and business correspondence while ensuring exceptional accuracy, professionalism, and confidentiality.
- Organize and coordinate executive meetings, leadership offsites, town halls, board meetings, and special events, including logistics, scheduling, preparation of materials, and follow-up actions.
- Manage executive expense reporting, invoice processing, document management, and other administrative responsibilities with exceptional attention to detail.
- Handle highly confidential business information with the utmost discretion, professionalism, and integrity.
- Exercise sound judgment in resolving scheduling conflicts, prioritizing competing demands, and identifying solutions to complex administrative and operational challenges.
- Lead or support special projects as assigned by the CEO.
- Perform other duties as assigned or necessary.

## What You'll Need

- Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and professional experience.
- 15+ years of progressively responsible experience supporting a Chief Executive Officer, President, Founder, or other C-suite executives within a fast-paced, complex organization.
- Demonstrated experience serving as a trusted advisor and partner to executive leadership while exercising exceptional judgment and discretion.
- Proven ability to manage highly complex calendars, executive travel, communications, and competing priorities with minimal direction.
- Experience supporting Board of Directors meetings, executive leadership meetings, strategic planning sessions, and enterprise-wide initiatives.
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact professionally and confidently with executives, board members, customers, and external partners.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and Teams.
- Exceptional organizational skills with meticulous attention to detail and a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset.
- Ability to anticipate executive needs, think strategically, and adapt quickly in a rapidly changing environment.
- Experience supporting executives within high-growth organizations is strongly preferred.

Healthy, Diverse Teams Breed Innovation: Kevin’s Natural Foods is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We deeply believe that diverse backgrounds and experiences make better teams, and we seek to attract talent from all walks of life. The team at Kevin’s is smart, humble, and passionate and we value a work environment that fosters personal development and opportunities to move within our small, but quickly growing organization.

More About Kevin’s Natural Foods: Kevin's Natural Foods is a line of refrigerated and frozen meals, sides, soups, and sauces on a mission to empower even the busiest people to eat clean without sacrificing flavor. Co-founded by Kevin McCray who battled an auto-immune disorder for years, Kevin's Natural Foods was born from his desire to make clean eating seamlessly fit into any lifestyle. Shockingly delicious and made with clean ingredients, Kevin’s products are ready in minutes and always free from gluten, soy, and refined sugar. In 2023, Kevin’s Natural Foods joined the Mars Food & Nutrition family, allowing us to expand our reach, accelerate innovation, and bring our mission to even more households while staying true to the quality and integrity that define our brand. A true market disruptor, Kevin's is the first clean refrigerated entrée brand working to prove every day that proper nutrition can be as delicious as it is healthy.

Salary Range: $90,000.00-$130,000.00 annually + benefits + bonus Compensation within this salary range is dependent upon the candidate's experience, education, and relevant qualifications

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## About Kevin's Natural Foods

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Kevin's Natural Foods produces refrigerated and frozen meals, sides, soups, and sauces made with clean ingredients, designed to make healthy eating convenient for busy people.
- **Entity Type**: Private (acquired by Mars, Incorporated in 2023)
- **Headquarters**: Stockton, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Kevin McCray

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Food and Beverage Manufacturing (Consumer Packaged Goods)
- **Target customers**: B2C – health-conscious consumers seeking convenient, clean-label meals; also sold through major retailers (in-store and online)
- **Mission or purpose**: “Empower even the busiest people to eat clean without sacrificing flavor.” [kevinsnaturalfoods.com](https://www.kevinsnaturalfoods.com/)

## Products & Services
- **Refrigerated Entrées**: Ready-in-minutes, chef-inspired meals that are gluten-free, soy-free, and free from refined sugar.
- **Frozen Meals**: Same clean ingredient philosophy in a frozen format for longer shelf life.
- **Sides, Pastas, Soups & Sauces**: Complementary products that extend the brand’s clean-eating promise across multiple meal occasions.

All products are keto and paleo certified. [kevinsnaturalfoods.com](https://www.kevinsnaturalfoods.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed as a private company. Acquired by Mars in July 2023 for **$800 million** (reported). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/kevinsnaturalfoods)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue estimated at **$140 million** (LinkedIn data). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/kevinsnaturalfoods)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Mars, Incorporated (parent company since 2023); prior private equity round in 2021 with 2 undisclosed investors.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew **53.4% year-over-year** (to 72 employees). LinkedIn followers increased **62.4% annually** (26,567 followers). Products available nationally in major retailers. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/kevinsnaturalfoods)

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover in clean refrigerated entrées**: Kevin’s was the first brand to offer a full line of refrigerated meals that are free from gluten, soy, dairy, and refined sugar while being certified keto and paleo.
- **Mars backing**: Access to Mars’ global supply chain, R&D, and distribution network accelerates innovation and shelf placement.
- **Founder story-driven brand**: Kevin McCray’s personal health journey creates authentic consumer trust and a strong brand narrative.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expansion under Mars**: Leveraging Mars Food & Nutrition resources to scale production, enter new retail channels, and accelerate product innovation while maintaining clean-label integrity.
- **Category leadership**: Continuing to disrupt the refrigerated/frozen meal aisle with better-for-you options that don’t compromise on taste.
- **Talent growth**: Actively hiring across operations, supply chain, finance, sales, and quality assurance to support rapid growth. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kevins-natural-foods)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “humble, hungry” with a focus on personal development and internal mobility. The team is “smart, humble, and passionate.” [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/kevin-s-natural-foods)
- **Work model**: Hybrid and remote options available for many roles; some positions (e.g., manufacturing) are on-site. Offices in Stockton, CA, with a hybrid workspace policy. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/kevin-s-natural-foods)
- **Diversity & inclusion**: Proud equal opportunity employer that believes diverse backgrounds make better teams. [kevinsnaturalfoods.com](https://www.kevinsnaturalfoods.com/pages/careers)
- **Growth trajectory**: High headcount growth (+53% YoY) and acquisition by Mars signal stability and opportunity for career advancement.
- **Perks**: Competitive pay (e.g., Sales Operations Intern $20–$25/hr, Senior Finance Analyst $28–$32/hr), benefits, and a mission-driven work environment.

## Sources
1. [kevinsnaturalfoods.com](https://www.kevinsnaturalfoods.com/)
2. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kevins-natural-foods)
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/kevin-s-natural-foods)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/kevinsnaturalfoods)

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