Director, Product Development and Commercialization

at  Chipotle

WHO WE ARE

Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (NYSE: CMG) is cultivating a better world by serving responsibly sourced, classically cooked, real food with wholesome ingredients without artificial colors, flavors or preservatives. Chipotle has over 3,000 restaurants in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Germany and is the only restaurant company of its size that owns and operates all its restaurants. Chipotle is ranked on the Fortune 500 and is recognized on the 2022 list for Fortune’s Most Admired Companies. With over 100,000 employees passionate about providing a great guest experience, Chipotle is a longtime leader and innovator in the food industry. Chipotle is committed to making its food more accessible to everyone while continuing to be a brand with a demonstrated purpose as it leads the way in digital, technology and sustainable business practices. For more information or to place an order online, visit

• Be the strategic thought leader for Product Development & Commercialization and manage a high performing team.
• Lead the discovery phase of new concept ideation and development with internal Chipotle and external strategic vendor teams to deliver a validated concept while ensuring vendors are aware of essential CMG standards.
• Lead the new product development (NPD) pipeline through the stage gate process, whereby taking validated concepts, and bringing them to market test readiness.
• Leads a series of product showcases in response to a product development (PD) brief or business need and lead the Chipotle Discovery Session calendar with strategic vendor partners to showcase new products, categories, or process innovations.
• Partners extensively with the CMG Chef, FSQA, Supply Chain, Operations, and Brand Marketing teams to take high performing concepts from Discover to Validate stage.
• Is responsible for ensuring all new products maintain Chipotle’s high Food Safety standards, Food with Integrity (FWI) standards, Operations parameters, and meet nutritional guidance.
• Leads the management of product formulations, specifications, and commercialization of products with strategic suppliers from benchtop to large scale productions with minimal product variation.
• Owns and manages the commercial production schedule for new and optimized core products including pre-production calls, in-person production visits, on-going commercial audits, product benchmarking, and commercial product evaluations for approval and corrective action feedback.
• Leads and manages the consumer testing of new and optimized core products with the culinary, field operations, and consumer insights teams.
• Supports International PDC needs as business needs warrant.