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title: 'Personal Chef at Shef'
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# Personal Chef at Shef

- **Company:** Shef
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** contract
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2025-05-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/shef-com/am9icG9zdDrr7FZuqmRcmF9aI406HpQ4

## Job description

## About Us

Shef is a modern-day shared personal chef service where we connect busy individuals & families who are seeking high quality, homemade food with local, talented chefs in their area. Shef handles delivery, customer service, platform logistics, & more, so you can focus on what you love to do.

Our subscription service is currently offered in the New York and San Francisco Bay Area regions.

Job Description If selected, you’ll be brought on to cook for our Weekly Shef Service where customers subscribe to meals delivered to their door each week offering a more steady & consistent income. The service is available for 4 days of the week, but there is flexibility to pick the days you’d like to participate.

Compensation is based on number of dishes/orders sold. Shef’s culinary specialist works closely with you to strategize on menu planning & pricing in order to be successful in front of customers viewing the service.

You have

- 1+ years of catering, private chef, or professional kitchen experience
- Culinary School degree and/or experience in restaurant kitchens
- Your food handler's or food manager's certificate (or are willing to obtain one)

You are

- A talented & skilled chef
- Passionate about your craft & creating high quality meals
- Precise with food safety measures & cleanliness
- Reliable
- Interested in running your own business (or already do)

To Apply If you’re interested in applying, please directly fill out our application here for an expedited process: https://o.shef.com/apply-today. We’ll reach out if we think it’s a good fit!

Note: if you’re searching for a traditional restaurant job, this isn’t the right role for you. If interested in our role, but have questions, please add your questions to the the form above in the last question “Is there anything we should know about you?”

## About Shef

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Shef is an online marketplace that connects consumers with local, food safety certified home cooks (shefs) who prepare and deliver homemade meals, enabling cooks to earn a meaningful income while bringing cultural inclusivity to the food system.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, $109.3M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Alvin Salehi (Co-founder, Chairman) and Joey Grassia (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Food technology / Online marketplace for homemade food
- **Target customers**: B2C – consumers looking for affordable, homemade meals from local cooks
- **Mission or purpose**: “Rebuilding the food system from scratch, redefining who can participate in the food economy, and returning personal connection to the making, eating, and sharing of food.” [shef.com](https://www.shef.com/careers)

## Products & Services
- **Shef Marketplace**: A platform where home cooks (“shefs”) create menus, prepare meals in small batches, and deliver them directly to customers. The service is available in 11 states across the U.S., including major cities like San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston. [shef.com](https://www.shef.com/careers)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$109.3M**; annual revenue of **$2M** (as of latest available data). [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/ordershef)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Series B (March 2023) led by **CRV**, with participation from 4 investors; prior rounds include Y Combinator (W19 batch), seed rounds, and debt financing from 15 investors. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/ordershef)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Expanded to serve more than 60 million people across 11 states. [shef.com](https://www.shef.com/careers)
  - Headcount grew 18.7% year-over-year (87 employees). [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/ordershef)
  - Active advocacy for home cooking laws (MEHKO guidance) to unlock new markets.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Regulatory-first moat**: Shef’s operations are deeply intertwined with food safety and home‑kitchen regulations. By navigating city‑by‑city compliance and actively pushing for legalization, the company builds a defensible position that is difficult to replicate. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/shef/faq/workplace-perception)
- **Inclusive community**: 75% of shefs are women and 80% are people of color, representing nearly 100 countries – creating a unique cultural and authentic food offering. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/shef)
- **Mission-driven brand**: Strong alignment with economic empowerment and cultural inclusivity gives the company a compelling narrative that attracts both customers and talent.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: 
  - Continue geographic expansion (currently 11 states) and scale the marketplace.
  - Champion policy changes to expand home cooking laws, making it easier for cooks to participate legally.
  - Invest in product and engineering to improve the platform experience for both shefs and consumers. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/shef/jobs)
- **Direction for growth**: Build a national, then global, network of home cooks while maintaining food safety and compliance standards.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Mission-driven environment focused on social impact, diversity, and inclusion. Strongly encourages applications from underrepresented groups (BIPOC, women, LGBTQ+). [shef.com](https://www.shef.com/careers)
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Hybrid model with two hubs in San Francisco and New York. [shef.com](https://www.shef.com/careers)
- **Notable perks and engineering culture**: 
  - Employees report high mission clarity and rapid learning opportunities due to lean team and cross‑functional ownership. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/shef/faq/workplace-perception)
  - Compensation for full‑stack software engineer is ~$144k/year. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/ordershef)
  - Employer rating: 3.9/5.0 (30 reviews), with culture rated 4.6/5.0. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/ordershef)
  - However, workload can be demanding, processes change frequently, and contractors (shefs) lack traditional benefits – best suited for those comfortable with startup intensity. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/shef/faq/workplace-perception)

## Sources
1. [shef.com/careers](https://www.shef.com/careers)
2. [linkedin.com/company/ordershef](https://linkedin.com/company/ordershef)
3. [ycombinator.com/companies/shef](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/shef)
4. [builtin.com/company/shef/faq/workplace-perception](https://builtin.com/company/shef/faq/workplace-perception)

## Other roles at Shef

- [Brand Ambassador (NYC Metro Area)](https://feeny.ai/job/brand-ambassador-nyc-metro-area-shef-new-york-m5p6s336pehq) — New York, NY
- [Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-full-stack-software-engineer-shef-san-francisco-5e96xysd5re9) — San Francisco, CA
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