About us

Food waste is a $1 trillion problem – costing the world over 1% of global GDP. We’re dead set on solving the problem and looking for people to help us achieve our mission. We, at Winnow, believe that food is far too valuable to waste, and that technology can transform the way we produce food. Our team is made of people who all share a passion for food and technology.

Winnow was founded in London in 2013 to help the hospitality industry prevent food waste through internet of things tools in the kitchen. We have worked with hundreds of sites and are operating in over 80 countries around the world supported by our offices in London, Dubai, Singapore, Romania and Chicago. We are a rapidly growing company with a strong base of clients who are rolling out our system globally. We have blue-chip customers including Accor Hotels, IKEA, IHG, Marriott, Compass Group and many others.

Winnow’s clients on average reduce waste by over 50% by value and sustain savings. Winnow has now worked with hundreds of sites to reduce food waste, including hotels, universities and schools, staff restaurants, event/hospitality kitchens, buffets, pubs, and high street restaurants. Where the system is permanently adopted, pre-consumer waste value is reduced by 50% - 70% with no detrimental impact to the perceived quality or value of the offer to their customers. This represents a typical improvement of food cost savings of 3% to 8%, commonly a 40%+ increase in profitability for operations.

As the global leader in addressing food waste, we are committed to continue pushing the envelope on what technology can do to solve this problem. Winnow Vision, our new artificial intelligence-based technology, is trained to automatically track all food waste thrown away. It has won awards at the World Economic Forum and has been received tremendous enthusiasm from our clients and the industry. You can read more about it on our website and this article in Forbes.

We are passionate about living our values and place them at the centre of everything we do. We are excited about like minded talent who share these values, joining us in our mission:

Equal parts head and heart. We’re both passionate and measured. We carefully balance the need for quick solutions and pragmatism with the ability to step back, take in the bigger picture and build for the long term.

Bravely honest. With each other, that means we’re a transparent organisation where healthy, respectful debate is encouraged. With our customers, we challenge them if we don’t think they’re achieving their goals, whether they be environmental or financial.

People of action. Done is better than perfect, and we learn by boldly doing then rapidly improving. We’re breaking new ground, so we know things might go wrong. But we judge ourselves and each other on our reaction and our resilience.

Bound by food. We’re a diverse bunch, but our belief in the value of food is the common thread in everything we do. With each other, we celebrate through our love and respect for food. With our customers, it means we work hard to develop creative tools to make it easy for chefs to value food.

Hungry and humble. Our product is revolutionary, our people are impressive, and we’re hungry for change. But, we’re just the catalyst for a bigger movement. We stay humble regardless of our success, and make chefs the heroes in this journey.

People and Planet Positive. We’re caretakers of the planet, helping to preserve and support it for now and the future. Our work already minimises the impact that the hospitality industry has on the planet, and we’re also committed to actively reducing our own footprint while doing so. We’re leaving the planet and its people better off than we found them.

This is an opportunity to join a rapidly growing start-up (and one of Wired’s top 100 start-ups in Europe) and help us propel our growth at what are truly the most exciting and dynamic points in time in our business. You will work alongside a driven team who are motivated by building an exciting business and leaving the world a better place than we found it.

About the role

As the graphic designer (Commercial), you will be supporting the commercial team delivering high quality design projects and marketing communications activities. The ideal candidate for the role will have business acumen and experience transforming written content into visually engaging presentations and infographics. Previous experience is required, preferably in an environment supporting a B2B sales function.

You must have a high quality design portfolio and a visual aptitude and experience with design work both for printed and digital use. To be considered for the position you must use all Microsoft Office programmes, Google Suite, Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and/or Illustrator. Being familiar with other visual design tools such as After Effects is considered a bonus.

Key objectives

• Elevating the overall quality of Winnow’s external facing documentation to ensure consistent and professional brand image in the marketplace; both sales focussed and operational focussed material e.g. training decks.
• Work with commercial leads to create sales content including presentations, pitches, two pagers, case studies, other client specific documentation and partner/reseller comms (e.g. Diversey, EarthCheck).
• Work with the marketing team to create product marketing collateral including user comms, product brochures, infographics, simple training videos and product launch content.
• Support the operations team to overhaul the design of the customer journey including onboarding guides, customer training presentations, in-kitchen posters and comms.
• Work with brand lead on thought leadership content including guides, white papers, case studies, social media content and presentations for keynotes and webinars.
• Assist with the management of assets,logos, icons and branding.
• Maintaining the Marketing Department's repository of marketing and business development materials.

Highly Desirable

• Video editing skills for video cut downs, product explainers, client coms.
• Experience with Adobe After Effects is a plus.
• Animation skills for rendering product demonstrations and BD specific content.
• Basic understanding of HTML/CSS standards knowledge to help with designing responsive web pages