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About the Role
NeueHouse Madison Square is seeking an Executive Chef to define the culinary identity of a historic landmark. This cultural cornerstone position requires a fine-dining pedigree, experience leading ambitious kitchens, building relationships with suppliers, and managing high-volume operations while maintaining craft. The Executive Chef will be the guardian of the guest experience across the members-only restaurant, private lounges, and event spaces, leading a high-performing kitchen operation.
Responsibilities
- Oversee all day-to-day culinary operations across the restaurant, lounges, and event spaces, ensuring every dish meets exacting standards.
- Lead end-to-end food production for all corporate meetings, high-profile conferences, and exclusive social events.
- Build and maintain direct relationships with farmers, ranchers, fishmongers, and artisan suppliers to drive a distinctive, seasonally-led menu.
- Review Private Event Orders with a keen eye, developing and assigning production tasks to ensure seamless execution.
- Approach menu and service design with a strategic lens, accounting for member benefit, the competitive dining landscape, and the broader NeueHouse brand.
- Attract, hire, and retain a diverse team of culinary professionals across multiple stations and shifts, acting as a mentor.
- Ensure all employees are treated with equity and respect, handling personnel matters with professionalism and care.
- Conduct impactful pre-shift meetings to brief the team on the day's business, goals, and guest expectations.
- Ensure the F&B offering is a strong expression of the NeueHouse brand pillars: people, creation, and discovery.
- Own food cost and labor cost performance with precision, conducting weekly and monthly reviews and holding the kitchen to disciplined, data-driven targets.
- Supervise the ordering, receiving, and storage of all supplies; conduct regular audits of food items and kitchen equipment.
- Dynamically adjust staffing levels and schedules to match business volume, balancing guest service with operational efficiency.
- Maintain a 'tour-ready' kitchen by enforcing rigorous sanitation standards and ensuring all equipment is serviced and performing at its best.
Requirements
- Culinary degree, certificate, or equivalent hands-on culinary training; demonstrated kitchen leadership is weighed heavily.
- Minimum 8+ years of progressive culinary/kitchen management experience.
- Experience leading a culinary team up to 20+ people.
- Substantial private events or banquet experience, ideally including ownership of a large-scale events program.
- Successful track record of managing food cost and labor cost to specific, disciplined targets.
- High volume, complex foodservice operations experience is highly desirable.
- Institutional and batch cooking experiences are a plus.
- Hands-on chef experience.
- Comprehensive knowledge of food and catering trends with a focus on quality, production, sanitation, food cost controls, and presentation.
- Proficient in Google Suite, Slack and Zoom.
- Must be willing to participate in client satisfaction programs/activities.
- Flexible and long hours sometimes required; work schedule may include early mornings and occasional weekends.
- Ability to move, lift, carry, push, pull and place objects weighing less than or equal to 25 pounds without assistance.
- Ability to reach overhead and below the knees, including bending, twisting, pulling, and stooping.
- Ability to stand, sit, or walk for an extended period of time.
Skills
- Fine-dining pedigree
- Kitchen leadership
- Farmer and artisan producer relationships
- High-volume operation management
- Culinary identity definition
- Guest experience management
- À la carte dining
- Private events program management
- Team development
- Culture architecture
- Menu design
- Service design
- Food cost control
- Labor cost control
- Sanitation standards
- Equipment maintenance
- Google Suite
- Slack
- Zoom
Location
- Flatiron, NYC
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 8+ years of progressive culinary/kitchen management experience
Education Level
- Culinary degree, certificate, or equivalent hands-on culinary training
Salary/Compensations
- $110,000 - $125,000 annually
- 20% annual bonus eligibility
Benefits
- Day-one health coverage for you and your family
- 24/7 virtual care
- Emotional well-being support
- Fertility & family planning benefits
- Generous PTO
- Birthday off
- Paid parental leave
- Year-end holiday closure
- 401K with company match
- Support for education, courses, and certifications
- Ongoing career growth opportunities
- Recognition programs
- Volunteer and give-back opportunities
About the Company
- Convene Hospitality Group (CHG) operates a global portfolio of lifestyle brands focused on creating places and experiences that bring people together.
- The company designs, develops, and operates hospitality-driven destinations to host gatherings of all kinds, ranging from small corporate meetings to immersive brand activations and beyond.
- NeueHouse Madison Square is a landmark of New York’s creative scene, housed in a historic 1913 industrial building that once served as an auction house.
- NeueHouse Madison Square offers a timeless design, emotive experiences, and elevated hospitality.
- Across eight floors, it offers special event spaces, membership lounges, private office suites, and a members-only restaurant and bar, all artfully blending an edgy, industrial aesthetic with the comfort and warmth of a designer residence.
Equal Opportunity
- Convene Hospitality Group is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
- We believe great teams are built by bringing together people with different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.
- Our values of GRIT (Genuine, Relentless, Integrity, and Teamwork) shape how we show up for each other every day.
- We want everyone here to feel welcome, supported, and free to be themselves.