Quality Assurance Manager

The Good Crisp Company • Boulder, CO

20h • $100,000 - $120,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

In the role of Quality Assurance Manager, you’ll be the steward of food safety and quality at The Good Crisp Company, making sure every product that hits the shelf meets the standards we’re proud to stand behind. As QA Manager, you’ll lead and continuously strengthen our food safety and quality programs across all products and manufacturing partners, ensuring we stay compliant, organized, and ready to scale. From qualifying suppliers and contract manufacturers to maintaining specs and documentation, you’ll create clarity and consistency in how we operate. You’ll partner closely with our operations team and external partners to reduce risk, standardize processes, and ensure traceability from ingredient to finished product. You’ll support product launches and first production runs, lead investigations when issues arise, run mock recalls to keep us sharp, and regularly evaluate finished goods to ensure they deliver on both safety and brand quality. This role blends hands-on execution with big-picture systems thinking, protecting what makes our product great while building the infrastructure to support our growth.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in food safety and quality assurance within CPG or food manufacturing.
• Working knowledge of FDA regulations, labeling requirements, and third-party food safety standards
• Experience qualifying and managing contract manufacturing partners and ingredient suppliers.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage documentation systems, specifications, and audit requirements.
• Ability to travel as required to support manufacturing and warehouse partners.

Nice To Haves

• PCQI Certification
• Experience in snack food or shelf-stable food manufacturing
• Experience working in a high-growth or entrepreneurial CPG environment.

Responsibilities

• Own and enforce TGCC’s food safety and quality programs, ensuring compliance with all regulatory requirements, internal policies, and third-party certification standards across products and partners.
• Lead supplier and manufacturing partner qualification, including risk assessments, onboarding documentation, and approval of contract manufacturers, warehouses/repack sites, and ingredient suppliers.
• Manage QA systems and documentation, including supplier records, certification tracking, audit renewals, and annual compliance requirements.
• Maintain and govern product specifications and process control documentation, ensuring alignment across commercialization, operations, and manufacturing partners.
• Support commercialization and operational initiatives, including product trials, first production runs, and ingredient evaluations.
• Lead safety and quality investigations at contract manufacturers, ensuring thorough documentation, accountability, and prevention action follow-up.
• Execute mock recall exercises and internal traceability audits, validating end-to-end lot tracking and recall readiness.
• Conduct routine product evaluations and sensory reviews to ensure finished goods meet established quality and brand standards
• Support regulatory and labeling compliance, including artwork validation and management of required certification renewals.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed