Hedgehog is seeking a Director of Sales, Foodservice to manage and scale our foodservice business. This role will be responsible for driving new customer acquisition and managing customer relationships in the foodservice channel.
This is a player-coach role: The Director of Sales will personally close key distributor customers while building and managing a 5-person sales team. They will also work cross-functionally with production and logistics to ensure dependable order fulfillment and exceptional customer service.
This is a commissioned sales leadership role. This role requires an entrepreneurial mindset, strong people management, and eagerness to be in the field, and exceptional organization skills.
Responsibilities
Characteristics
Qualifications
Hedgehog builds robotic mushroom farms. Our robots eliminate labor and our AI optimizes grow conditions to increase yield. We’ll soon grow mushrooms and fungi for <1/3rd the cost of leading growers.
Fungi may address our food system’s biggest problems: they transform agricultural waste into protein-rich foods with near-zero environmental impact. Hedgehog’s technology is unleashing fungi as our next major food source.
Salary
$130,000 - $130,000
Equity
0.2% - 0.5%
Location
Remote
Experience
6+ years
Last stage
Seed
Investors
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.