Mezzetta
We're growing, evolving and thriving as we work to bring our products to the next generation of foodies.
Our passionate team at Mezzetta has an unwavering focus on quality and strives to add happiness to everything we do. From globally inspired products to our spirited company culture, we believe in celebrating and sharing the little things that make life special. We're a results driven culture, and we like to win!
If you are committed, values-driven, and embrace change, this is the place for you — come join us.
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Associate Digital Marketing Manager
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About Us:
Since 1935, we’ve been on a mission to bring a little extra happiness to everyday life and inspire connections over food. We select the finest ingredients the world has to offer, craft premium products made with love, and never settle for shortcuts. We believe that when we share our food, we share a part of ourselves — and that’s the only way we’d put our name on it.
Today, our small family company has grown into a national leader in specialty olives, peppers, and sauces under the leadership of CEO Jeff Mezzetta, and our commitment to quality has never wavered. With an 80-year legacy behind us and a bright future ahead, we’re seeking passionate, driven candidates to help us bring our cherished family traditions to a new generation.
The ideal candidate will have an immediate connection to our Core Ingredients:
- Crunchy Crunchy: We are hungry for excellence.
- Own It: We think and act as an owner – with appetite, initiative, and responsibility.
- Connection: We build authentic relationships that foster trust and open communications.
- Vibrance: We come to work eager and passionate about fulfilling our vision. When we share our work, we share a part of who we are.
The Associate Digital Marketing Manager (Social & Growth) owns and optimizes key digital marketing channels, including social media, email marketing, and paid advertising platforms. This role plays a key role in driving customer engagement, retention and conversion through effective campaign execution, audience segmentation and performance optimization. The role will work cross-functionally with internal teams and agency partners to ensure seamless delivery of integrated marketing initiatives across all marketing channels
Responsibilities
Social Media Management: Own and execute the social content and promotional calendar across platforms, ensuring alignment with brand and business priorities. Drive audience growth through consistent, high-quality content and platform-specific strategies. Lead cross-functional coordination of campaigns, promotions and go-to-market initiatives across internal teams and external partners.
- Content Creation & Optimization: Collaborate with agency and internal teams to develop high-performing, compelling content optimized for engagement and amplification. Monitor performance and report social platform analytics to inform messaging refinement, posting cadence, and creative formats for maximum reach and impact. Ensure consistent voice, storytelling and visual language that aligns with brand guidelines.
- Audience Growth: Drive audience growth through consistent, high-quality content and platform-specific strategies
- Campaign/Calendar Ownership: Own and manage the integrated marketing calendar, ensuring alignment across email, social, paid and promotional initiatives to support business objectives.
- Paid Media: Partner with manager and media agency to execute conversion-driven paid social campaigns supporting Mezzetta.com, Amazon and omnichannel partners.
- Strategy Development Execution: Partner with internal brand management partners to ensure overall social and content strategy aligns with broader marketing, business and go-to-market goals.
- Influencer Strategy & Partnerships: Partner with social agency to identify, vet and manage influencer and ambassador relationships to expand reach and engagement. Oversee campaign execution, define
- performance goals and evaluate ROI to continuously optimize partnerships.
- Trendspotting & Innovation: Stay current on emerging trends, platform features and consumer behavior to identify opportunities to grow brand presence, with a focus on TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest and Reddit.
- Agency Management: Nurture partnership and accountability with social media agency, ensuring timely delivery on content, strategy and reporting deliverables. ·
- Reporting: Track, analyze, and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) across paid and organic social media to evaluate effectiveness and ROI. Help maintain and update monthly digital marketing dashboard to visualize campaign performance and identify trends or anomalies.
E-Mail Marketing: Own and elevate Mezzetta’s email marketing program, including campaign strategy, execution, segmentation and performance optimization
- Campaign Strategy & Execution: Plan, design, and deploy email campaigns that nurture leads, drive engagement, support customer retention goals and expand customer list.
- Automation & Workflows: Build and manage automated email journeys (welcome sequences, re-engagement, lifecycle campaigns) to maximize the capabilities on Klaviyo.
- Segmentation & Personalization: Develop audience segments and use behavioral or demographic data to deliver targeted, relevant content.
- Testing & Optimization: Conduct A/B tests on subject lines, creative, and send times to continually improve open rates and conversions.
- Analytics & Reporting: Monitor key performance metrics (open, click-through, conversion, unsubscribe) and generate actionable insights for campaign refinement. ·
- Compliance: Ensure all email marketing adheres to brand guidelines, GDPR/CAN-SPAM compliance, and best deliverability practices.
- Reporting: Track, analyze, and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) across email marketing activity to evaluate effectiveness and ROI. Help maintain and update monthly digital marketing dashboard to visualize campaign performance and identify trends or anomalies.
AI & Automation
- AI Integration: Leverage AI tools to support content creation, audience research and product insights.
- Innovation and Education: Stay current with advancements in AI marketing technologies and champion internal learning, ensuring the team leverages tools effectively and ethically.
Digital Marketing & E-Commerce Team Support
- Provide cross-functional assistance with key team initiatives and tasks as needed, including support with budget management. Support customer experience operations to ensure continuity during peak periods and team coverage.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, Business, Communications, or related fields (preferred)
- 4-6 years of relevant digital marketing, social media and content strategy experience, preferably CPG
- Proficiency in Microsoft Suite (Excel, Outlook, Teams, PPT), Klaviyo, AI platforms (Open AI, Anthropic)
- Experience with Amazon Seller Central, Shopify, AI content creation, digital/social analytics
- Strong understanding of social media channels, best practices, and the evolving social media landscape along with good written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with social media content planning and publishing
- Keeps up to date with industry trends and new platform innovations.
- Creative, innovative thinker who’s not afraid to bring new ideas to the table.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience in copywriting and copy editing
- Ability to work independently and exercise discretion but communicate and escalate issues appropriately.
- Detail-oriented, organized and deadline driven with ability to adapt in real time.
- History of high performance.
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
- Demonstrates a bias toward action.
- Ability to resolve issues in a variety of complex situations.
Our Commitment to an Inclusive Workplace:
At Mezzetta, we embrace diversity and strive to create an inclusive environment where you know you belong. Part of that commitment includes a zero-tolerance policy and being an Equal Opportunity Employer that prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All employment decisions at Mezzetta are solely based on merit, qualifications, abilities and business needs, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, marital status, national origin, disability, military or veteran status, family or parental status, pregnancy, or any other status protected by law. All of us share in the responsibility of fulfilling this commitment and creating a culture where our team can thrive.
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Brand Manager - Peppers & Olives
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About Us:
Since 1935, we’ve been on a mission to bring a little extra happiness to everyday life and inspire connections over food. We select the finest ingredients the world has to offer, craft premium products made with love, and never settle for shortcuts. We believe that when we share our food, we share a part of ourselves — and that’s the only way we’d put our name on it.
Today, our small family company has grown into a national leader in specialty olives, peppers, and sauces under the leadership of CEO Jeff Mezzetta, and our commitment to quality has never wavered. With an 80-year legacy behind us and a bright future ahead, we’re seeking passionate, driven candidates to help us bring our cherished family traditions to a new generation.
The ideal candidate will have an immediate connection to our Core Ingredients:
- Crunchy Crunchy: We are hungry for excellence.
- Own It: We think and act as an owner – with appetite, initiative, and responsibility.
- Connection: We build authentic relationships that foster trust and open communications.
- Vibrance: We come to work eager and passionate about fulfilling our vision. When we share our work, we share a part of who we are.
Mezzetta is seeking a talented Brand Manager to lead the Olives & Peppers categories, our two largest and highest performing businesses. This is a high-impact role with responsibility for category-leading brands and a clear opportunity to shape their next phase of growth. This position is based in the Mezzetta Larkspur office just north of San Francisco.
This position owns the direction of the business, setting priorities that drive sustained growth and continued category leadership. The role defines how the categories compete and grow, then drives action across the organization to deliver against those priorities and move the business forward.
The scope spans the full business, from defining how the categories compete and grow to driving alignment across Sales, Insights, Finance, and Supply Chain. It requires strong judgment, a clear point of view, and the ability to align the organization behind the growth drivers that define success.
Success in this role comes from building on an already strong foundation and continuing to elevate performance through clear priorities, disciplined execution, and thoughtful brand leadership.
Responsibilities
Business Ownership & Performance
- Own business performance for the Olives & Peppers portfolio, including revenue, share, and contribution targets.
- Sustain and extend category leadership by identifying and executing against the most impactful growth opportunities.
- Translate performance data into clear actions that improve baseline velocity, mix, and trade efficiency.
Strategy & Planning
- Lead annual category and brand planning, defining the role of each segment within the portfolio.
- Translate company strategy into focused, actionable growth priorities.
- Identify opportunities to expand household penetration, increase repeat purchase, and strengthen brand equity.
Retail Execution & Commercialization
- Partner closely with Sales to deliver strong, consistent in-market execution across key retailers.
- Set clear priorities across distribution, shelving, merchandising, and pricing to drive performance.
- Support sell-in with clear, insight-driven category and brand stories.
Marketing & Demand Generation
- Develop and execute marketing programs that balance shopper marketing with targeted consumer demand building.
- Partner with Digital and Creative teams to deliver cohesive, high-impact campaigns across channels.
- Ensure marketing efforts reinforce brand positioning and drive measurable return.
Innovation & Renovation
- Lead the innovation agenda for the Olives & Peppers portfolio, identifying and prioritizing opportunities grounded in consumer and market insights.
- Partner with Innovation and R&D to bring new products to market with strong alignment to category strategy and brand positioning.
- Own product renovation efforts to improve competitiveness, quality, and margin.
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Operate at the center of the business, aligning Sales, Insights, Finance, Supply Chain, and R&D around clear priorities.
- Drive clarity, accountability, and momentum across cross-functional teams.
- Contribute to key company processes including AOP, S&OP, and Monthly Business Reviews.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in Business, Marketing, or a related field
- MBA strongly preferred
- 5–8+ years of brand management experience in CPG
- Demonstrated experience owning and driving business performance
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills with the ability to translate data into action
- Experience working cross-functionally with Sales, Finance, and Supply Chain
- Proven ability to manage complexity and drive results in a fast-paced environment
- Strong communication and storytelling skills
Our Commitment to an Inclusive Workplace:
At Mezzetta, we embrace diversity and strive to create an inclusive environment where you know you belong. Part of that commitment includes a zero-tolerance policy and being an Equal Opportunity Employer that prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All employment decisions at Mezzetta are solely based on merit, qualifications, abilities and business needs, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, marital status, national origin, disability, military or veteran status, family or parental status, pregnancy, or any other status protected by law. All of us share in the responsibility of fulfilling this commitment and creating a culture where our team can thrive.
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About Us:
Since 1935, we’ve been on a mission to bring a little extra happiness to everyday life and inspire connections over food. We select the finest ingredients the world has to offer, craft premium products made with love, and never settle for shortcuts. We believe that when we share our food, we share a part of ourselves — and that’s the only way we’d put our name on it.
Today, our small family company has grown into a national leader in specialty olives, peppers, and sauces under the leadership of CEO Jeff Mezzetta, and our commitment to quality has never wavered. With an 80-year legacy behind us and a bright future ahead, we’re seeking passionate, driven candidates to help us bring our cherished family traditions to a new generation.
The ideal candidate will have an immediate connection to our Core Ingredients:
- Crunchy Crunchy: We are hungry for excellence.
- Own It: We think and act as an owner – with appetite, initiative, and responsibility.
- Connection: We build authentic relationships that foster trust and open communications.
- Vibrance: We come to work eager and passionate about fulfilling our vision. When we share our work, we share a part of who we are.
Mezzetta is seeking a high-impact Brand Manager to lead the Pasta Sauce category, a strategically important growth business for the company in a highly competitive market. This is an opportunity to help shape the next phase of growth for a brand with real potential and a clear opportunity to grow our position in the market. This position is based in the Mezzetta Larkspur office just north of San Francisco.
This position owns the direction of the business, setting priorities that accelerate growth and strengthen the brand’s position in category. This Brand Manager will define where to compete, how to win, and what it will take to stand out, then drive action across the organization to deliver against those priorities.
The scope spans the full business, from sharpening brand positioning and driving demand to expanding distribution and building a disciplined innovation pipeline. It requires a strategic, creative, and competitive leader who can move with speed, make sound decisions, and keep the organization focused on the growth drivers that matter most.
Success in this role comes from building momentum, increasing household penetration, and establishing the brand as a stronger and more relevant player in the category.
Responsibilities
Business Ownership & Performance
- Own overall business performance for the Pasta Sauce portfolio, including revenue growth, share, and contribution
- Identify and act on the most critical growth levers to accelerate velocity, trial, and repeat
- Translate performance data into clear actions that drive measurable improvement
Strategy & Positioning
- Define and refine brand positioning to create clear differentiation in a crowded category
- Establish a focused strategy for where to play and how to win
- Translate strategy into clear priorities that guide the organization
Marketing & Demand Generation
- Lead development of integrated marketing programs that build awareness, drive trial, and increase repeat
- Partner with Digital and Creative teams to deliver compelling, high-impact campaigns
- Ensure marketing efforts are grounded in consumer insight and deliver measurable results
Retail & Channel Expansion
- Partner closely with Sales to expand distribution and strengthen in-market presence across key retailers
- Support sell-in with strong, insight-driven stories that demonstrate category and brand opportunity
- Identify opportunities to improve competitiveness through pricing, assortment, and channel strategy
Innovation & Portfolio Development
- Lead the innovation agenda for Pasta Sauce, identifying and prioritizing opportunities grounded in consumer and market insight
- Build and manage a pipeline of products that drive both growth and differentiation
- Partner with Innovation and R&D to bring new products to market successfully
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Operate at the center of the business, aligning Sales, Insights, Finance, Supply Chain, and R&D around clear priorities
- Drive clarity, accountability, and momentum across cross-functional teams
- Contribute to key company processes including AOP, S&OP, and Monthly Business Reviews
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in Business, Marketing, or a related field
- MBA preferred
- 5–8+ years of brand management experience in CPG
- Experience building or scaling a brand or category strongly preferred
- Strong strategic thinking and ability to translate ideas into action
- Demonstrated ability to operate in competitive, fast-moving environments
- Strong cross-functional leadership and communication skills
Our Commitment to an Inclusive Workplace:
At Mezzetta, we embrace diversity and strive to create an inclusive environment where you know you belong. Part of that commitment includes a zero-tolerance policy and being an Equal Opportunity Employer that prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All employment decisions at Mezzetta are solely based on merit, qualifications, abilities and business needs, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, marital status, national origin, disability, military or veteran status, family or parental status, pregnancy, or any other status protected by law. All of us share in the responsibility of fulfilling this commitment and creating a culture where our team can thrive.
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Associate Food Technologist
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About Us:
Since 1935, we’ve been on a mission to bring a little extra happiness to everyday life and inspire connections over food. We select the finest ingredients the world has to offer, craft premium products made with love, and never settle for shortcuts. We believe that when we share our food, we share a part of ourselves — and that’s the only way we’d put our name on it.
Today, our small family company has grown into a national leader in specialty olives, peppers, and sauces under the leadership of CEO Jeff Mezzetta, and our commitment to quality has never wavered. With an 80-year legacy behind us and a bright future ahead, we’re seeking passionate, driven candidates to help us bring our cherished family traditions to a new generation.
The ideal candidate will have an immediate connection to our Core Ingredients:
- Crunchy Crunchy: We are hungry for excellence.
- Own It: We think and act as an owner – with appetite, initiative, and responsibility.
- Connection: We build authentic relationships that foster trust and open communications.
- Vibrance: We come to work eager and passionate about fulfilling our vision. When we share our work, we share a part of who we are.
The Associate Food Technologist role will support the development of new products and processes, evaluate and improve the quality of existing products and review their current processes for optimization. The Associate Food Technologist will support R&D, quality, operations, procurement and technical services with projects related to product and process improvement. This entry level position is an amazing opportunity to work in a newly built test kitchen with lots of room for growth.
The R&D department’s internal customers are Sales, Marketing, Procurement & Manufacturing. Marketing and R&D work together in the development of Mezzetta’s food products. Both departments often work hand in hand to develop a product that will be predictive of its success in the market. Manufacturing is the department’s most important customer. R&D, in this regard, seeks to refine and improve existing manufacturing processes, or to develop new and better ways of making the product. With input from manufacturing, R&D has the potential to reduce costs and increase production efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Develop new products and existing product reformulations, from initial concepts to commercialization.
- Complete supplemental product analytical and sensory testing.
- Provide technical support to R&D on product improvements and collaborate with operations on test runs in production to emulate approved kitchen samples.
- Maintain accuracy of formulations, processes, BOM’s and product specifications.
- Approve new ingredients and suppliers by collaborating with procurement, R&D and QA.
- Conduct research to evaluate the shelf life of new or existing products or test new materials.
- Conduct routine product cuttings and competitive cuttings per schedule with sensory panel.
- Create and ensure accuracy of nutrition facts panels and ingredient declarations for new and/or reformulated products.
- Assess production processes and make recommendations for improvements that are looking to reduce waste or cost or increase quality or profitability.
- Plan and conduct research activities that evaluate new or revised products, ingredients, or formulations for taste, texture, and shelf stability.
- Adjust formulations based on product specifications for production.
- Create and ensure accuracy of nutrition facts panels and ingredient declarations for new and/or reformulated products.
- File for certifications such as Non-GMO, Kosher, Gluten-free, Vegan, etc.
- SQF support.
- Bills of Material Management, maintaining accuracy of formulations, processes and product specifications.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Food Science or related sciences
- Minimum 1-2 years experience in the food industry or related field
- Proficient in Excel, Word, and statistical analysis
- Excellent communicator both written and verbal
- Project leader
- Analyzing information
- Product Improvement
- Multitasking/Dealing with complexity
- Reporting research results
- Promoting Process improvement
- Problem solving
- Technical understanding
Our Commitment to an Inclusive Workplace:
At Mezzetta, we embrace diversity and strive to create an inclusive environment where you know you belong. Part of that commitment includes a zero-tolerance policy and being an Equal Opportunity Employer that prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All employment decisions at Mezzetta are solely based on merit, qualifications, abilities and business needs, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, marital status, national origin, disability, military or veteran status, family or parental status, pregnancy, or any other status protected by law. All of us share in the responsibility of fulfilling this commitment and creating a culture where our team can thrive.
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