Senior Producer & Project Manager (m/f/d)

München

Full-time

Permanent employee

YOUR MISSION

Ready to rethink nutrition? At yfood, we’ve been pioneering good food for everyday life since 2017, offering balanced, convenient, and truly delicious options. With our products, we’ve created an entirely new category: Smart Food. Active across Europe, growing fast, and always on the lookout for fresh ideas. If you want to be part of a dynamic team that’s revolutionising the food industry, yfood is the place for you.

what this is really about

We're not looking for an Excel administrator with timing sheets. We're looking for a producer with a pulse, someone who keeps an overview between CDs, print houses, AI pipelines and 14 open Slack threads, and at the end of the day can say: "we're good." You're the all-seeing eye of the Creative Team. You turn briefings into reality. Chaos into a plan. "Won't work" into "works like this."

You translate between worlds: agency ↔ in-house, creative ↔ legal, print ↔ digital, human ↔ machine. And you ship, fast, clean, repeatable.

Your mission

Project Ownership: You own large campaign, launch and production projects end-to-end. From briefing through budgeting to the final file handover. Day-to-day examples: campaign rollouts, localisations, sleeve productions, product launches and brand stunts.
Production Excellence: Photo and video productions (classic & AI-driven), print productions (Pantone, prepress know-how a plus), digital assets, sell-in materials, POS. You know when a shoot is the right lever, and when an AI pipeline delivers faster, cheaper and at least as well.
AI Production: You co-build and run our AI production workflows. You know the tools, you know the limits, you know the costs. You know when Midjourney/Veo/Runway/ElevenLabs make sense, and when they don't. You think in pipelines, not in single tools.
Agency & Freelancer Steering: Major agencies, production houses, copywriters, photographers, AI artists, print houses. You brief clearly, negotiate fairly, control cleanly. Your freelancer network is gold, bring it.
Cross-Functional Glue: Brand, performance, trade, legal, operations, procurement. You're the person where threads come together, and don't tear apart.
Budget & Timing: You build budget models that hold up. You plan timelines that are realistic. You communicate risks before they become problems.
Process Building: You optimise workflows, automate the repetitive, and make sure the team delivers faster next time than last time.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

5+ years of experience as a producer / project manager (agency, production house, in-house FMCG/lifestyle/food/tech) with a proven track record on campaigns, shoots and launches.
AI Readiness: You actively work with AI tools in production (image, video, voice, copy). You understand prompting, pipelines and post-production. You're not "AI-curious", you're AI-fluent.
Print & Digital Production: You know both. Pantone, print files, layer structures, Print View. You're equally at home in digital asset workflows, social cut-downs and performance adaptations.
Communication in volatile environments: When the print approval falls apart at 5:43 PM, the CD has a new idea, and legal still has a question, you stay clear, sort, prioritise, communicate. Composure under pressure isn't a bonus, it's the role.
Project Management Skills: Asana, Slack, Microsoft 365, Adobe Creative Suite, your toolkit. Gantt logic in your head, risk management in your sleep.
Freelancer Network: You bring solid contacts (producers, photo/video, AI artists, copywriters, post-production). Bonus, not mandatory, but very welcome.
Leadership Maturity: First leadership experience or clear potential to mentor juniors and lead a squad of freelancers.
Languages: Fluent German & English. Both markets, both tonalities.
Driver's licence (Class B). Set visits, print house meetings, sometimes you have to be there.

WHAT DRIVES US

We’re a little different, and that’s exactly what makes us who we are:

Passion: We’re passionate about what we do. Full of energy, optimism, and hungry for what’s next.
Responsibility: We have each other’s backs, take responsibility, and give it our all when it really matters.
Professionalism: We take our work seriously, but not ourselves too much. We’re open, straightforward, and always on equal footing. No bullshit, no egos. Just teamwork.
Innovation: We prefer “Why not?” over “That’s how it’s always been done.” We love new ideas, unconventional approaches, and never stand still

(WH)yfood?

What we offer

We promote equal opportunities and value diversity. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
yfood goes international. Although Germany is our home base, we have created a dynamic and colorful environment with our international markets, where many exciting topics are waiting for you.
Agility is key. That's why we work in a hybrid work model and offer you the opportunity to work with Workation from other EU countries.
Go with the flow. You receive a monthly subsidy of €30 for your public transport ticket and can lease a bike at attractive conditions through JobRad.
Vacation is important. That's why we give you 30 days of paid vacation per year.
yfood keeps you fit. For this purpose, we offer workshops and campaigns (e.g. Yoga, Breathwork, Soccer, Pickleball) as part of our health management & Healthy@yfood
Train your taste buds. Everyone who wants to is part of our Sensory Team. So try new products, varieties or flavors before anyone else. Otherwise, there's as much yfood as you can carry, for free of course in all our offices but also if you work remotely.
As a start-up you often have to fight with clichés. But some of them are true. That's why we also offer a fruit basket, your free caffeine kick or the still water.
Come as you are. Whether in a suit or unicorn onesie. We do not have a dress code.

CONTACT

Katharina Bauer

Talent Acquisition Manager

jobs@yfood.eu

Equal Opportunity Employer

At yfood, we are committed to creating equal opportunities for everyone. We celebrate diversity and are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and respectful work environment for all employees.

We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of age, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.

Applications from people with disabilities are explicitly encouraged.

About us

With yfood, we are the market leader in the smart food category in Germany, a new category of products with a complete nutrient profile that are quickly and easily available at any time. Since our founding in 2017, we have been making innovative "complete food" in the form of drinks, bars as well as powders, enabling simpler, better nutrition - especially in everyday situations where it is not always easy to have a balanced diet due to time or availability issues. The products contain all the essential micro- and macronutrients our body needs - without sacrificing taste. Sustainability is also important to us. For example, we use resources responsibly and have been a carbon-neutral company since 2021. Currently, more than 180 food enthusiasts are working on our vision of making balanced nutrition easier. Our products are available in more than 30 European markets, including the UK, France, and the Netherlands.