Lead Product Manager, Samsung Food
Platform, Contractor
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The ultimate cooking app
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The ultimate cooking app
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build a more sustainable future by inspiring home cooks everywhere to tackle holistic health through nutrition and reduce food waste.
Role
Who you are
- 7–10 years of product management experience, with 1+ years leading PMs in a platform or systems-focused domain
- A track record of leading complex technical products, such as:
- Backend platforms
- ML/AI-driven features (bonus points for experience with agentic systems)
- Ontologies or semantic data models
- Personalization engines
- Large-scale API ecosystems
- Evidence of outstanding leadership, including developing and coaching PMs, setting standards for clarity and execution, and building healthy team cultures
- Strong technical fluency, with an ability to collaborate deeply with engineering/ML/ontology data teams, understand architectural tradeoffs, and translate technical constraints into product decisions
- Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional complexity and transparency, especially across multiple teams or organizations with different priorities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to make complex systems understandable and facilitate alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- A mindset that blends strategic thinking with hands-on execution, able to set long-term platform direction while engaging deeply in day-to-day architectural discussions
- A collaborative, low-ego approach suited to a fast-moving, globally distributed, high-accountability environment
- A genuine interest in food, health, and/or behavior change, demonstrating a passion for solving hard technical problems that meaningfully improve people’s lives
What the job involves
- Contract-based, full-time role (40 hours/week, depending on workload) with a long-term commitment
- We’re looking for a Lead Product Manager, Platform to oversee the end-to-end platform product direction, guiding a team of technical PMs responsible for innovating and iterating within the food and service data domains
- You’ll bring coherence across initiatives by shaping diverse inputs into a clear product strategy, and work with engineering, ML, and ontology/data leads to turn complex systems into meaningful user and business value
- This is both a strategic and hands-on leadership role, suited to someone who can balance vision-setting with product execution
- Lead and develop a team of 2 technical product managers, raising the bar for product quality, clarity, and execution
- Translate complex systems and ambiguous, ever-changing opportunities into coherent product strategy, defining how platform capabilities (including data ontologies, ML models, personalization frameworks, and partner APIs) evolve to support multiple product teams and long-term, defensible business value at global scale
- Own the end-to-end roadmap for Samsung Food’s shared platform and intelligence capabilities that power consumer experiences across Samsung
- Drive alignment across multiple internal and partner teams – including services teams, Samsung Health, Big Data Platform, and SmartThings. Identify shared needs and ensure platform investments unlock leverage for multiple user-facing teams
- Partner with engineering and delivery leadership to shape platform delivery models, ensuring we move quickly when prototyping new capabilities, and apply rigorous, low-risk processes when updating systems that are already scaled and widely used
- Ensure reliability, maintainability, and performance of the platform by making clear tradeoffs between speed, quality, and technical debt
- Uphold delivery-minded product standards across the Platform PM team — ensuring PMs provide clear priorities, manage their cross-team dependencies, and proactively surface risks
- Represent the platform stream to leadership, providing clarity on architectural decisions, delivery risks, dependencies, and long-term opportunities
- Use quantitative and qualitative insights to inform platform evolution, ensuring capabilities are aligned with real user needs and enable meaningful differentiation in food and health experiences
Application process
- Please include your hourly rate (in USD) when applying for this position
Our take
Samsung Food is an all-in-one app that makes cooking, meal planning, and grocery shopping easier. It acts as a personal food assistant and lets users save recipes from anywhere online, organise them into a digital recipe box, plan meals, and even turn those plans into smart shopping lists.
Now it's one of the world's leading food tech platforms, available in 10 languages, consistently maintaining near-perfect ratings on the App Store and Google Play, and has been featured by Apple more than 200 times. It's not just popular with users either: major retailers and brands such as Asda, Tesco, Waitrose, and Ocado have all partnered with Samsung Food to help connect consumers with their products. And it's backed by Samsung's connected ecosystem, making it a flagship part of the company's smart home strategy, integrating directly with its appliances and services to create a truly connected cooking experience.
Originally founded as Whisk in 2012 by entrepreneur Nick Holzherr, the platform was acquired by Samsung Next in 2019 and rebranded to Samsung Food. Since then, its grown rapidly, expanding its global team, earning awards like Google Play's "Best Everyday Essentials", and being certified as a Most Loved Workplace®. Now, powered by AI, Samsung Food is continuing to evolve and help even more people cook better, waste less, and enjoy food more.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2014
$0.6m
SERIES A
Jun 2013
$0.4m
SEED
Total funding: $1.7m
Company HQ
City Centre, Birmingham, UK
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