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Role Description

As our Director of Continuous Improvement, you’ll help build the operational engine that powers The Good Crisp Company’s next stage of growth. Reporting to the SVP of Operations, you’ll partner across manufacturing, QA, NPD/commercialization, supply chain, demand planning, and our co-manufacturing network to identify high-impact opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce waste, increase yield, and expand margin. Your work will directly influence how we scale, ensuring our operations are disciplined, data-driven, and built for profitable growth.

In this role, you’ll turn insights into action, which includes:

• Digging into production and cost data
• Identifying root causes
• Leading structured improvement initiatives from idea through implementation and validation
• Standardizing best practices across co-manufacturers and warehouse partners
• Collaborating closely with NPD to embed operational excellence into new product launches and renovations

Ultimately, you’ll ensure our operations are scalable, resilient, and aligned with the quality and consistency our brand is known for.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and execute a prioritized operational productivity roadmap focused on margin expansion through yield improvement, waste reduction, and cost efficiency across our network.
• Lead high impact improvement initiatives from opportunity identification through implementation and validated financial impact.
• Establish clear metrics and tracking systems to measure impact and ensure results.
• Partner with FP&A to quantify COGS impact, validate realized savings, and maintain transparency against margin objectives.
• Ensure operational learnings from product development, trials, and renovations are translated into actionable improvements and embedded into production processes.
• Provide operational input for capital investments and support process improvements where clear performance gains and ROI are demonstrated.
• Partner across Operations Department functional leads to implement improvements, ensuring changes are adopted effectively and aligned with overall business priorities.

Qualifications

• 6-8+ years of progressive experience in continuous improvement, operations, manufacturing excellence or operational strategy.
• Demonstrated success leading cost savings and productivity initiatives in a manufacturing environment (CPG or food & beverage preferred).
• Strong project management skills with ability to manage multiple initiatives at once.
• Financial acumen, able to quantify impact, build business cases and track ROI.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives.

Requirements

While we’re ideally looking for candidates in the greater Boulder area, we’re also open to remote candidates for this role. For local candidates, we expect a hybrid work schedule, coming into the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays to work together in person. Travel is required for site visits, audits, product trials, and partner support activities.

Benefits

• Technology Stipend
• Equity
• Full-time employees and dependents are eligible for medical, dental and vision insurance
• 4 weeks paid time off + paid holidays
• 401(k) program with employer contribution