Private Chef — Full-Time, Live-Out
NYC-Based | Summer Hamptons (Onsite) and 2 shorter trips during the year
Compensation: $150K-$175K commensurate with experience + with healthcare stipend
Please note: Local candidates only.
Overview
A warm private family is seeking an experienced full-time, live-out Private Chef to join their NYC-based household on a long-term basis. This is an exceptional opportunity for a chef who is passionate about their craft, genuinely enjoys private service, and is looking to build a lasting relationship with one household.
The family values excellent food, thoughtful planning, and open communication. They appreciate the care, preparation, and attention to detail that go into consistently exceptional meals and are looking for a chef who shares that mindset. Above all, they are seeking someone who is collaborative, organized, adaptable, and genuinely fulfilled by serving others in a private home.
The Heart of the Role
This role is about becoming the family's trusted culinary partner. The ideal chef creates thoughtful, beautifully executed meals that reflect the family's tastes while introducing new ideas with care and intention. Creative and confident, yet always collaborative, adaptable, and responsive to feedback.
The kitchen is the chef's realm–the successful candidate will take complete ownership of its organization, cleanliness, provisioning, and day-to-day operation, ensuring everything runs smoothly and efficiently. This is a staffed household where emotional intelligence, professionalism, discretion, and mutual respect are essential. The ideal candidate enjoys working as part of a team, communicates well, and takes genuine satisfaction in helping a household run seamlessly.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare daily lunch and dinner for the principals.
- Prepare meals for children and other household staff members as needed.
- Develop and manage seasonal menus in collaboration with the family.
- Create balanced, flavorful meals that support a health-conscious lifestyle.
- Source exceptional ingredients with an emphasis on quality and freshness.
- Manage grocery shopping, provisioning, inventory, and advance preparation.
- Maintain impeccable organization, cleanliness, and efficiency throughout the kitchen and pantry.
- Introduce new dishes while remaining attentive to the family's preferences.
- Coordinate effectively with other household staff as part of a collaborative team.
- Travel with the family as needed and provide meal service during travel periods.
Schedule
The position is based primarily in New York City and follows a generally structured full-time schedule, with flexibility required based on the family's calendar, travel, entertaining, and seasonal residence.
While the role is predominantly weekday-based, occasional evenings, weekends, holidays, and travel will be required with advance planning whenever possible.
Culinary Style
The family enjoys a broad range of cuisines and appreciates ingredient-driven cooking that is both refined and approachable. They value variety and enjoy discovering new dishes while maintaining consistency with their established preferences.
The ideal chef has a strong sense of menu balance, understands modern wellness-oriented cooking without sacrificing flavor, and is equally comfortable preparing lighter fare as well as thoughtfully incorporated indulgences.
Dietary Considerations
The household follows certain dietary preferences and nutritional guidelines that will be discussed with qualified candidates. The ideal chef is comfortable incorporating nutritional guidance while maintaining creativity, balance, and exceptional flavor.
Household Environment
This is a fully staffed private home where collaboration, professionalism, and discretion are highly valued. The successful chef will work respectfully alongside other household employees and contribute positively to a supportive, well-run environment.
Strong interpersonal instincts, sound judgment, flexibility, and a low-ego approach are essential to success.
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate combines exceptional culinary ability with maturity, humility, and natural private-service instincts. They have meaningful experience in private households and understand the discretion, flexibility, anticipation, and emotional intelligence required to thrive in a home environment.