Program Manager

Afresh, the AI platform for grocery, began by tackling the most complex problem in the industry: fresh, and has evolved into the core AI platform for grocers.

By leveraging proprietary AI designed for high-volatility environments, we empower partners like Albertsons, Meijer, and Wakefern to drive smarter decisions across their entire enterprise.

Following record-breaking 70% revenue growth in 2025, we have scaled to 6 enterprise-grade solutions, with solutions live in over 10% of the U.S. grocery market. Our platform now orchestrates billions of decisions from the store floor to the distribution center and prevented over 200 million pounds of food waste last year alone.

If you're looking for a role where your work directly translates into massive scale and social good, and you want to be part of the team that defines how the world eats, there is no better time to join us.

About the Role

As a Program Manager on the Operations team (part of the Tech Org.), you will be responsible for the end-to-end success of our customer partnerships ensuring success during the launch of each integration. You will build strong relationships across our retail partners’ organization from senior stakeholders to management and team members on the ground. You will have the opportunity to lead cross-functional technical projects with Afresh stakeholders and successfully deploy our solution at scale while continuously improving our processes that are fast-paced and constantly evolving.

You have customer-facing experience, are structured and have strong project management skills, and love driving projects to completion in a fast-paced environment; you are excited to reduce fresh food waste in the grocery industry, too!

Responsibilities

• Lead and execute successful integrations with our partners
• Deeply understand our customers' operations and how the Afresh solution maps to these to provide maximum value
• Create detailed, actionable implementation plans that enable both Afresh and our customers to understand and execute on the full scope of our deployment processes
• Build trusted relationships with our partners’ point people including project management, store teams, operation leads, and executive teams
• Lead cross-functional work across Afresh's teams to manage the deployment process and build consensus, including work with our Executive, Engineering, Product, Support, Account and Sales teams
• Capture learnings and best practices from deployment efforts to create a sustainable, replicable playbook for future deployments
• Identify and implement ways to improve Afresh & our team’s processes as we build our work together
• Continually work towards scaling our processes and solutions to achieve a lower cost to serve

Attributes

• Exceptional project management skills to keep multiple complex projects spanning many external and internal stakeholders on track simultaneously
• Customer empathy and ability to build meaningful relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders at our customers
• Self-reliance to source answers and make informed but new decisions
• Comfort working with ambiguity and charting the right path forward
• Effective cross-functional collaboration, including the ability to clearly communicate needs and rally support 
• Process improvement mindset and a desire to move the needle on how we do the work we do, to improve both customer outcomes and cost to serve
• Understanding of customer business processes, and ability to utilize expertise and appropriate product functionalities to address customer issues
• Commercial mindset that allows you to understand and act on what our customers care about most

What skills or experience do you need?

The following represent attributes our ideal candidate possesses. We encourage all highly-qualified candidates to apply, even if they do not fulfill all the listed criteria.

• 5+ years experience managing client relationships
• 3+ years experience in product implementations/deployments (SaaS preferred)
• Demonstrated ability to drive projects to completion
• Experience in grocery or retail industry preferred
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proficiency working with AI models such as Claude, Codex, Replit or other tools
• Proficiency in SQL, Excel, Looker or other dashboarding tools preferred
• Open to travel (up to 25%)

This position is not eligible for sponsorship

Salary Range in US: $134K - $181K + meaningful early-stage equity + benefits

 

  Why You’ll Love Working at Afresh
At Afresh, our mission to eliminate food waste starts with investing in our people. We provide a comprehensive support system designed to help you do your best work while maintaining a healthy, balanced life.

• Comprehensive Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family, with the majority of premiums covered by Afresh. We also provide dedicated mental health support and counseling services.
• Invested in Your Future: Competitive base salary, meaningful equity (U.S. employees), and a 401(k) program with a generous company match.
• Flexible & Modern Workspace: Whether you work from home or a local office, we support your setup with a home office stipend and "Coworking Wallets" for flexible workspace access.
• Growth-Obsessed Culture: We believe in continuous learning. Every employee receives an annual professional development budget to master new skills and grow their career at Afresh.
• Holistic Monthly Stipends: Beyond your paycheck, we provide monthly stipends for "Betterment" (wellness/lifestyle) and telecommunications to ensure you have what you need to thrive.
• Time to Recharge: Flexible paid time off to take the time you need to recharge.

*Full-time U.S. employees are eligible for these benefits  

About Afresh

Founded in 2017, Afresh is using AI to tackle the #1 solution to curb climate change: reducing food waste. By building AI specifically for the intricacies of grocery—from the fresh perimeter to the center store—we help grocers minimize waste and maximize sales.

Afresh sits at an incredible intersection of positive social impact, rocket ship financial growth, and cutting-edge technology. Our best-in-class AI research has been published in top journals, including ICML, and our investors include Al Gore’s Just Climate, former Whole Foods Market CEO Walter Robb, and Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors.

Grocery is the past, present, and future of our food system – the waste we create today will impact our planet for years to come. Join us as we continue to build a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive team that embodies our company’s values of proactivity, kindness, candor, and humility.

Afresh provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.

Here at Afresh, many of our employees work remotely provided that they reside in one of the following states: AL, AR, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, KY, MA, MI, MT, MO, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OR, PA, TX, WA, UT, VA, WI.