Senior Manager, Produce Quality

Location: Remote, with approximately 30–40% travel for supplier visits, fulfillment center training, and field assessments. The distributed team operates across 28+ U.S. states.

Company

hirify.global uses AI to deliver personalized groceries, recipes, and supplements that make healthy living easier and more convenient.

What you will do

• Own supplier quality, quality expectations, shelf-life requirements, corrective actions, and supplier performance improvement.
• Develop and govern produce specifications for bulk and co-manufactured products, including temporary specifications during market changes.
• Advise Category Management, Planning, Operations, and FSQA on supplier capabilities, delivery cadence, truck temperatures, fulfillment center turn days, seasonal transitions, and quality risks.
• Lead produce inspection, grading, defect identification, USDA liaison activities, PACA compliance, and shelf-life monitoring.
• Train and coach fulfillment center quality teams on standardized inspections, grading, defect identification, and communication practices.
• Analyze quality trends, lead investigations and corrective actions, reduce defect rates, and oversee retain testing and other specialty quality programs.

Requirements

• 5–10 years of produce inspection or produce quality experience.
• Deep expertise in USDA grading standards, PACA regulations, fresh commodity quality assessment, growing regions, seasonal transitions, weather impacts, and produce supply chain dynamics.
• Hands-on experience inspecting, grading, and evaluating a broad range of fresh produce commodities.
• Experience managing relationships with growers, shippers, or produce vendors and governing produce specifications in retail, foodservice, or direct-to-consumer environments.
• Experience supporting quality operations across multiple distribution centers, fulfillment centers, or field locations and standardizing practices across distributed teams.
• Ability to work independently in a remote environment and travel approximately 30–40%.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first, distributed work environment focused on collaboration, ownership, accountability, team-building, and flexibility.
• Regular virtual team events and an annual company retreat.
• Inclusive workplace committed to equal opportunity and zero tolerance for harassment or discrimination.