Do you love the food blogging world and how it is making cooking more accessible for at-home chefs? Are you a cook who loves to be a part of developing recipes – and the idea of cooking multiple times a week for your job sounds like a dream?
Good news! COOKtheSTORY is looking for a Ghostwriter & Recipe Developer! At COOKtheSTORY, we believe that helping people and creating accessibility for home cooks creates significant changes. Food is a human necessity, and we value providing a service that makes a difference in people’s home lives by offering recipes that take less time (but still taste delicious) so people have more time to do other things.
Now, we’re looking for a Ghostwriter & Recipe Developer to join our team and collaborate to develop (and cook!) recipes for the website! Sound like a dream? Keep reading!
Ghostwriter & Recipe Developer
Overview
Reporting to the CEO, Christine, you’ll be responsible for taking a recipe from start to finish – from the development and collaboration to cooking the meal itself, to photographing the steps (and the result!), and writing the full recipe and blog post that goes with it. To thrive in this role, you’re someone who loves cooking, testing recipes, and tasting what you’ve come up with – you’re highly collaborative and are involved in the online cooking world enough to know what current trends are happening. You’ll be working with Christine closely and with the Content Manager and Marketing team to come up with recipes and see them through. You will be the main cooking creative force behind the blog – you will be strategizing recipes and executing them so that Christine can run other aspects of the company.
- Time Commitment: 40 hours/week, flexible schedule
- Compensation: $20-25/hour
- Benefits: PTO: vacation days, paid company holidays, and paid personal days
- Location: Central Florida, anywhere in or around Orlando down to Miami In-person
- Status: This role is a full-time employee role. You must be available to be employed by our company and legally eligible to work in the United States.
Responsibilities
You will be responsible for:
- Developing different recipes depending on trends in the online cooking space
- Cooking the recipes created in collaboration with other team members (COOKtheSTORY will provide money for ingredients)
- Photographing recipes as you cook them (the steps as well as the end result) to go on the blog ultimately
- Writing out the full recipe and blog post (per Christine’s SOPs/standards) to be uploaded onto the website along with the photos
- Working closely with Christine to strategize the next recipe and planning what will go on the website when
- Staying on top of trends in the food industry and creating recipes according to what’s trending
- Taking recipe instructions and planning out content, working in tandem with the Content Manager
- Making and cooking 5-10 recipes per week that can be photographed
- Creating new and unique recipes and presenting them to Christine and the Content Manager
- Collaborating with other team members to ensure content is cohesive
- Producing recipe videos when necessary
- Occasionally commuting to Christine’s house in Florida to cook several recipes with Christine, including going grocery shopping, taking photos during the process of all recipes, and cleaning up the kitchen once finished
- Coming up with different cooking tips and ideas that can go on the blog separate from recipes
This could be you if…
- You love to cook!
- You have a DSLR camera and know how to work with raw photo files
- You have some basic photo and video editing skills and are interested to learn more
- You’re highly collaborative and love coming up with new ideas with other people, as well as presenting your ideas to other team members
- You’re interested in creating easy recipes for the home cook
- You’re passionate about what you create but are excited to be supporting an established brand rather than being the face of the brand
- You love the culinary world and are up to date on trends within the online culinary community
- You love cooking a variety of foods for different lifestyles, dietary preferences, and experience levels
- Diving in and making a lot of food sounds exciting to you!
- You love seeing people recreate something you’ve made, and enjoy seeing readers’ comments with their thoughts and different ways they changed the recipes
- You have basic food photography and videography skills (and you’re interested in learning more about food photography/videography)
- You’re excited about the mission behind COOKtheSTORY and want to be a part of it
- Collaborating on recipes and following through with making them (and tasting them) sounds like a fantastic full-time job to you
Software
- DSLR camera
- Photoshop
- Lightroom
- Basecamp
- Google docs
To apply
Process
We are accepting initial applications from now until Tuesday, September 28th at 3pm EST. Please note we accept applications on a rolling basis and the sooner you apply, the better!
We are a company that highly values diversity, equity, and inclusion. We encourage Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, LGBTQIA+ and those who hold marginalized identities not listed to apply, even if you don’t think you fit 100% of the criteria.
If you’ve been chosen to move forward to the interview, you’ll be notified shortly after your application is received. If you don’t hear from us, thank you so much for applying, and we will keep your application for consideration in the future!
We’ll assess the top candidates in the following weeks (depending on how many applicants we have). If chosen, we’ll invite you to do a zoom interview.
We can’t wait to hear from you!
