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Customer Care Specialist

Hungryroot is an AI-powered online grocery service that delivers personalized healthy groceries, simple recipes, and supplements to help customers save time, eat well, and reduce food waste.

Hungryroot

Employee count: 51-200

Salary: 40k-50k USD

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About Us

Hungryroot is using AI to build the most consumer-centric food and wellness company to ever exist. We act as your personal assistant for healthy living—getting to know your goals, lifestyle, and budget, and recommending and delivering healthy groceries, easy recipes, and essential supplements for you and your family.

It’s the easiest way to eat healthy, achieve your goals, save time, and discover new foods. We believe food is the foundation of health, convenience should not mean compromise, and that everyone is unique in how they eat and live. That’s why we’re building a future in which healthy living is both easy and enjoyable.

Hungryroot is a distributed team of top talent across 28+ U.S. states. While we have a headquarters in New York City, our remote-first culture emphasizes collaboration, team-building, and flexibility. Expect regular virtual team events, strong ownership and accountability, and an annual company retreat.

About the Role

Hungryroot is looking for a Customer Care Specialist to join our team who is results driven, has a high attention to detail and is driven by delighting customers. In this role, you’ll support our customers across social media, email, phone, text, and live chat while helping us strengthen our online community and improve the customer experience across the full lifecycle.

You’ll spend a majority of your time on social + reputation management (with a focus on Facebook Group moderation and community engagement), while also supporting cross-functional operations and customer lifecycle communications.

This is a full-time remote role working 40 hours per week in 8-hour shifts, including weekends and some holidays. Your ability to work non-traditional hours and OT when needed is a huge plus! If you want to help us change how people grocery shop and eat for the better, we encourage you to apply!

Responsibilities

  • Respond to a high volume of customer comments and questions across email, phone, SMS, live chat, and social media while consistently meeting daily resolution targets, First Response Time goals, and SLA commitments.
  • Moderate the Facebook Group and other brand communities by reviewing and approving posts, removing off-topic or harmful content, responding to questions and ensuring conversations align with community guidelines.
  • Produce a weekly social community roundup that captures feedback on digital product, grocery discovery, and customer service themes.
  • Strengthen and grow our reputation on Reddit and Trustpilot through proactive engagement, thoughtful responses, and awareness of platform norms.
  • Identify emerging topics across social channels and translate them into actionable insights for Operations, Marketing and Product teams.
  • Lead quality control across brand voice, tone, and engagements while consistently achieving Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) goals.
  • Support lifecycle messaging through Braze by assisting with issue and shipping communications sends during high-impact moments.
  • Maintain and update Zendesk macros, Help Center FAQs, and AI-Agent templates to ensure customers have access to accurate and timely information.

Qualifications

  • 2+ years in a customer-facing support or communications role
  • Experience managing social channels or online customer communities (Facebook Group preferred)
  • 1+ years of experience working with a CRM platform (Zendesk (preferred), Kustomer or Gorgias)
  • Familiarity with Braze a plus
  • Excellent copywriting and editing skills
  • Open to traveling for team building opportunities throughout the year
  • Emotionally intelligent, solution-oriented communication
  • Organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable navigating multiple tools
  • Motivated, positive, proactive, and transparent attitude with the ability to jump right in
  • Passion for healthy living and brightening customers’ days

Perks Benefits

  • Remote-first: work from home, work from our NYC office, work from anywhere in the U.S. - you decide!
  • Equity
  • Unlimited vacation policy
  • Universal paid parental leave
  • Monthly Hungryroot credit for delicious, healthy groceries
  • Comprehensive health, vision, dental, and life insurance
  • 401k with Company Match
  • A work from home stipend to support your initial home-office setup

Expected Pay Range
$40,000-$50,000 USD(Non-Exempt, Hourly Position with Potential OT)

The employer will not sponsor applicants for work visas.

Our mission to help make healthy eating easy, accessible, and joyful is better served by a diverse workplace. We are a proud Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building an inclusive workplace. We have zero-tolerance for harassment or discrimination. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected class.

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Salary: 40k-50k USD

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Hungryroot is an AI-powered online grocery service designed to make healthy eating easy, personal, and sustainable for its customers. Many people face the challenge of wanting to eat healthier but lack the time for extensive meal planning, grocery shopping, and cooking. Hungryroot addresses this by getting to know each customer's unique preferences, lifestyle, budget, and health objectives. Through a detailed quiz covering tastes and daily routines, the platform gathers over 100 explicit data points per customer, enabling its AI to curate a personalized grocery plan. This plan includes recommended groceries, simple recipes, and even essential supplements, aiming to help customers feel their best. The service inverts the traditional shopping experience; instead of starting with an empty cart, customers begin with a full cart of healthy groceries and recipes that they can then edit. This approach significantly reduces the time and stress associated with meal preparation, helps users achieve their health goals, discover new foods, and save money by reducing food waste and reliance on takeout.

The company was founded in 2015 with the belief that food is the foundation of health and that convenience shouldn't mean compromising on quality or personal needs. Initially, Hungryroot operated as a packaged food company offering a small line of healthy products. However, responding to customer demand for a more comprehensive solution, it pivoted in 2019 to become an AI-driven online grocery delivery service. Today, Hungryroot offers over 600 groceries that meet a high-quality 'Root Standard' – free of artificial sweeteners, colors, preservatives, partially hydrogenated oils, and high-fructose corn syrup – and over 6,000 chef-crafted recipes. These recipes are designed to be nutritious, easy to follow, and typically take 10 minutes or less to prepare. Hungryroot supports over 25 dietary restrictions and preferences, more than many competitors in the industry, catering to needs such as vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, and high-protein diets. By leveraging AI, Hungryroot not only personalizes the customer experience but also optimizes its operations to minimize food waste, contributing to a more sustainable and economical way of grocery shopping.

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401(K)

Hungryroot offers a 401(K) plan.

Remote work program

Hungryroot supports remote work.

Life insurance

Hungryroot offers life insurance.

Paid holidays

Hungryroot provides paid holidays.

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