Tovala

Data Analyst

• Lead Tovala’s menu analytics ecosystem in partnership with Menu, Product, and Operations: frame hypotheses, predict menu performance, and measure the impact of changes on engagement, satisfaction, and margin.
• Support weekly menu optimization by building clear, data-backed recommendations that balance customer delight, menu variety, and financial targets.
• Design and maintain core menu analytics tools such as menu dashboards and menu scoring/optimization models.
• Deliver insights that improve the menu and product experience by analyzing behavioral data in SQL and collaborating with Menu, Product, and UX teams to identify friction points and opportunities.
• Evaluate menu and product experiments (e.g. new menu items, curated menus, feature changes) to quantify their impact on customer behavior and menu metrics.
• Contribute as a leader on the analytics team by driving projects from ideation to implementation and promoting sustainable, high-quality data practices.

Senior Data Analyst, Menu Analytics

Ecommerce

• Serve as the voice of the customer for our mobile app and web experiences for current customers, ensuring every interaction reflects our goal to make eating well at home easy.
• Work with UX designers, engineers, and cross functional partners and company leadership to define and deliver high-quality digital experiences across mobile and web that bring the magic of Tovala to life.
• Drive product discovery and partner with design and engineering to creatively build low cost prototypes that prove customer value and business impact.
• Collaborate with tech leads to turn customer insights and business goals into clear, actionable product plans that teams can confidently build.
• Measure whether projects are actually delivering the results we expect—by setting clear success criteria upfront and tracking the right metrics along the way.
• Partner closely with engineering to make smart technical trade-offs, prioritize work, and continuously improve our discovery and delivery process.
• Continuously refine and improve our digital user experience based on feedback, performance data, and emerging best practices in product design and development.

Digital Experience Product Manager

• We’re Tovala, a food-tech company reinventing home cooking to save consumers time. Through an innovative combination of hardware, software, and fresh food delivery, we make it incredibly simple for anyone to prepare and enjoy delicious, home-cooked meals without sacrificing time to do whatever matters to them. Through our superior technology, product experience and food quality, we have separated Tovala from the busy pack of other meal delivery businesses. In the process, we’ve amassed a loyal, rapidly growing following and our retention, product engagement and customer NPS are all best-in-class. We’ve raised over $100mm from great investors like Left Lane Capital, Origin Ventures, Y Combinator and Comcast Ventures and have invested strongly in building a unique culture that fosters growth, personal development and camaraderie.

Position Summary
At Tovala, we eat data for breakfast… along with our delicious biscuits. Our team is a small group of analysts and engineers who are passionate about helping teams across the Tovala organization make data-driven decisions.

We are looking for a Senior Data Analyst to lead Retention Analytics, focusing on understanding, forecasting, and improving how customers engage with Tovala over time. The ideal candidate combines analytical rigor with a deep curiosity about customer behavior, always asking why customers act the way they do and how we can better serve them. This person will be a key partner for our Lifecycle Marketing (LCM), Demand Planning, Finance, and Product teams, helping them answer critical questions such as:
• What drives customer retention?
• How can we design initiatives to improve it?
• How much future demand will our customers generate?

This role will build and sustain a retention analytics ecosystem: generating and validating hypotheses, modeling potential outcomes, measuring performance against expectations, and using insights to generate new hypotheses. They will own core analytics products such as retention models, churn predictions, and demand forecasts – ensuring these tools are actionable, trusted, and accessible for business stakeholders.

Senior Data Analyst, Retention Analytics

QA Engineer

We’re Tovala, a food-tech company reinventing home cooking to save consumers time.
Position Summary: We’re seeking a Senior Director of Food Safety & Quality Assurance (FSQA) to lead our company-wide food safety, quality, and regulatory compliance programs.
This leader will oversee all aspects of FSQA across manufacturing, meal production, supply chain, and product development — ensuring Tovala’s products meet the highest standards of safety, consistency, and customer delight.
This role will report to our Chief Manufacturing Officer and be a key member of our operations leadership team, driving proactive food safety culture, continuous improvement initiatives, and strategic quality programs that scale with our growth.
Location: Chicago

Senior Director, FSQA

Customer Support

• Work with the Customer Support Team to help customers from ordering to cooking and troubleshoot issues
• Greet incoming chats, calls, and emails and ensure timely, appropriate, and fun responses
• Provide support above and beyond, adding surprise and delight to interactions
• Provide insights to improve products and services
• Option to work remotely two or three days per week during peak mid-November to end of year
• Provide support during shifts between 9:00am to 9:00 pm CT, including weekends
• Monitor and respond to email inquiries
• Answer questions and resolve issues in real-time via online chat
• Answer calls and phone customers to provide live support when necessary
• Provide Tech Support help when troubleshooting the oven or App
• Educate customers around all aspects of our service and product
• Use Zendesk and other CRM software to maintain records of customer interactions
• Document common trends and update customer-facing product manuals and assets
• Share perspective on trending topics to business and engineering teams to improve product and services
• Maintain high customer satisfaction
• Have fun and make customers feel part of the Tovala family

Senior Data Analyst, Menu Analytics

Digital Experience Product Manager

Senior Data Analyst, Retention Analytics

Senior Director, FSQA

Customer Support Specialist