Job Summary Required Qualifications and Skills
We are seeking an energetic, creative, and detail-oriented Personal Chef in San Clemente, CA for a direct hire opportunity supporting a private household and office environment. This role is ideal for a culinary professional who enjoys preparing healthy, beautifully presented meals while also providing flexible personal assistant support in a fast-paced, hands-on setting.
The Personal Chef will manage daily meal preparation, menu planning, grocery shopping, kitchen organization, and occasional event support. This is a highly trusted role that requires discretion, professionalism, strong communication, and the ability to anticipate needs. The work environment offers variety, close collaboration with a supportive household team, and the opportunity to make a meaningful daily impact through excellent food, organization, and service.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare delicious, healthy meals for the Founder and family, taking dietary restrictions, macros, nutritional balance, and presentation into account.
- Manage meal planning, grocery shopping, food prep, ingredient freshness, kitchen organization, setup, and cleanup for home and office meal service.
- Cook and plate meals according to daily schedules, travel plans, events, and requested meal drops.
- Document meal preferences, recipes, tasting notes, and feedback to support continuous improvement and personalized service.
- Ensure proper sanitation, food safety, storage, and kitchen cleanliness standards are consistently maintained.
- Provide flexible personal support, including errands, organization, party and event assistance, and active communication with household team members.
Compensation and Benefits
- Direct hire opportunity.
- Salary range: $75,000 to $100,000 per year.
- Benefits include Medical, Dental, Vision, and 401K.
- Location: San Clemente, CA.
- Availability for nights, weekends, parties, events, and family or travel schedule needs may be required.
- Prepare healthy, customized meals for a private household and office setting.
- Manage menus, groceries, meal prep, kitchen organization, and food quality.
- Support events, travel-related meal planning, and last-minute schedule changes.
- Provide personal assistant support, errands, and household coordination as needed.
- 6 to 10 years of relevant culinary, private chef, personal chef, household cook, or high-touch food service experience preferred based on role level.
- Strong cooking skills with the ability to prepare nutritious, balanced, flavorful, and visually appealing meals.
- Knowledge of dietary restrictions, macros, nutrition-focused meal planning, ingredient sourcing, and freshness standards.
- Excellent organization, time management, communication, and follow-through.
- Ability to work in a changing environment with a flexible, service-minded, and proactive attitude.
- High level of discretion, confidentiality, professionalism, and trustworthiness.
- Availability to work nights or weekends as needed for meal service, events, parties, and travel schedules.
- Understanding of sanitation, food safety, safe storage, and kitchen cleanliness requirements.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working in a private household, executive household, family office, luxury hospitality, catering, or similar high-service environment.
- Ability to support both culinary duties and personal assistant responsibilities with equal professionalism.
- Experience documenting recipes, preferences, tasting notes, and client feedback.
- Strong plating skills and an interest in healthy, creative, customized cuisine.
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