Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) – Foodsby

Fooda • Chicago, IL

10d • $100,000 - $150,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) is a high-impact role embedded within the Foodsby business. This individual will focus on identifying, evaluating, and supporting operational ideas that improve performance, scalability, and unit economics.

This role sits at the intersection of sales, operations, finance, and strategy and is responsible for defining and tracking all activities from post-sale to after launch, ensuring each new Foodsby site achieves operational readiness and early order volume. Rather than owning day-to-day execution, the EIR will research opportunities, define experiments, track results, and ensure operational decisions are grounded in strong financial logic and P&L discipline.

The initial focus of this role is on the Foodsby product. This role is hybrid, with three days per week in the Chicago headquarters office.

Requirements

• Entrepreneurial and comfortable operating in ambiguity—you enjoy figuring out what works before it’s obvious.
• Highly analytical, with strong financial acumen and comfort owning a P&L perspective.
• Fluent in unit economics, cost drivers, and financial tradeoffs.
• Organized and detail-oriented, with strong project management and follow-through skills.
• Clear communicator who can synthesize complex information into concise insights and recommendations.
• Comfortable spending time in spreadsheets, collaborating with stakeholders, and occasionally observing operations in the field—but primarily focused on analysis, insight, and decision support rather than execution.

Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for developing, testing, and refining a scalable launch playbook that ensures consistent execution, strong unit economics, and rapid consumer adoption for the Foodsby product.
• Identify operational opportunities across the Foodsby business worth testing or further investigation.
• Research workflows, demand patterns, cost structures, and performance data to surface insights and improvement opportunities.
• Partner with Fooda leadership to define hypotheses, success metrics, and evaluation frameworks for operational initiatives.
• Evaluate Foodsby initiatives through a P&L and unit economics lens, ensuring operational decisions align with margin, cost, and growth goals.
• Build and maintain financial models to assess profitability, sensitivity, and scalability of proposed changes.
• Serve as a financial thought partner to the Foodsby team, helping translate operational activity into clear financial outcomes.
• Track active initiatives and experiments, ensuring clear timelines, owners, and deliverables.
• Develop clear reporting artifacts (dashboards, summaries, memos) that communicate results, learnings, and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Ensure experiments and insights are well-documented so learnings can be scaled or reused across the business.
• Partner closely with Operations, Sales, Finance, and other teams to gather inputs, validate assumptions, and pressure-test ideas.
• Act as a flexible utility player, supporting leadership with analysis, research, and special projects as business needs evolve.

Benefits

• Competitive market salary and stock options, based on experience
• Flexible PTO
• Comprehensive health, dental and vision plans
• Flexible spending accounts
• Paid maternity and parental leave options
• 401k matching
• Company Issued laptop
• Daily subsidized lunch program (ours!) and free food and beverages in the office
• A fulfilling, challenging adventure of a work experience

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees