Referrals (aka, match maker). If you refer us a candidate who we don’t already know and we hire them, we will give you $2,000 in cold hard cash and a $100 gift card to your favorite restaurant.
Make a scalable impact on the world’s oldest industry
We fight climate change and mass extinction. We don’t make supplements for gym bros or crystal yogis, shiny science projects with impractical cost-structures, or any product that doesn’t move the needle on whether humans exist. Instead, we work on scalable, sustainable foods from plants that outcompete commodity animal products on the only factors that count: taste and cost. With us, join a team finding meaning in tackling hard problems that matter, while laughing at the absurdity that we really just make cheese.
Our Values
- Stay hungry: We care about what we do, how we do it, and getting better at it every day. We stay hungry to take risks, make mistakes, and learn from them.
- Look in the mirror: Self-awareness is a key ingredient for working with others. By reflecting on what we think, feel, and do, we can adjust our behaviors to better serve ourselves and our team. By knowing our strengths and our flaws, we can maintain the humility to learn from our colleagues and the pride to share our strengths with them. In any personal change big or small, the first step is awareness.
- Choose agency: Sometimes we’re up, sometimes we’re down, but the root of agency is taking responsibility for how we respond. We choose not to focus on what we can’t control but work on what we can. We choose not to fixate on what happens to us but on what we do about it. We believe in our ability to solve problems; recover from setbacks; and shape our careers, our company, and entire industries.
- Savor every bite: Whether you’re kicking ass or getting your ass kicked, have fun, laugh, and take care of yourself. Sometimes even the end of civilization isn’t that serious. You have one life; bask in it.
Our Culture
You will probably be a good fit at Plonts if:
- The word documentation makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside. We have a love affair with documentation because we believe that it leads to clearer thinking and more efficient knowledge transfer.
- You like your sleeves up, not just down. We are a small team, and at the end of the day, we make food. We view “doing whatever it takes to get the job done”—whether that’s making cheese, cleaning dishes, or taking out trash—as a feature, not a bug.
- Scrappy makes you happy. We are a food company that is aiming to replace commodity products. As a result, we are judicious with our capital, pragmatically evaluating how our resource allocation advances our mission.
- You like real talk. We are building a culture of constant feedback and direct communication. We celebrate strengths and talk openly about areas of improvement, operating with the principle “clear is kind.”
Our Support
You can't help others unless you have enough in the tank. You can't face your fears if you feel constantly insecure. We are always looking for ways to build a supportive community so that each member can take on challenges, demons, and missions with chutzpah. As part of this community, we work to provide security in the following areas:
- Financial health: competitive salaries, equity ownership, retirement plans
- Physical health: health insurance, proximity to Berkeley Bowl produce
- Mental health: 3 weeks paid time off that we really want you to take
- Social health: parental leave, communal lunch not at your desk
- Spiritual health: regular meetings to exchange feedback, asking hard questions, dark chocolate
