Baker – Bread + Butter, Santa Monica

Baker – Bread + Butter, Santa Monica
Full-time · $23–$28/hour + tips (estimated $400/week) · 5 days/week, shifts 3 am–11 am or 5 am–1 pm

We're hiring an experienced baker to join our production team, making our daily pastry and bread with care, precision and pride.

About us
Bread + Butter started in the basement of my home in Tasmania, where I churned butter by hand for customers at the local farmers market. That butter made its way into the pastries at our first bakery in 2018. Today we have three locations in Australia and a team of fifty bakers, cooks, baristas and hospitality people, all built on a simple goal: exceptional pastry, food and coffee for our community.

Santa Monica is our first US location. LA felt like home the moment I arrived: generous, open-hearted people and some of the best produce in the world. We still bake with the same obsession over butter, technique and tradition, and we're looking for someone to help make this bakery part of the fabric of the neighbourhood as one of our original US team.

What you'll do
- Produce our daily pastry and bread menu, keeping quality consistent every day
- Make core doughs, mixes and recipes with little or no supervision
- Help develop new and seasonal items
- Store, package, label, date and rotate products to our standards
- Help with ordering and keep production and cleaning schedules on track
- Work closely with front of house to get product out looking its best
- Share production updates, waste and end-of-day notes on Slack

What you'll bring
- 2+ years of bakery experience
- Strong laminated dough skills (croissant, puff and so on)
- Experience with both yeasted breads and sourdough or natural fermentation
- Meticulous attention to detail and a clean, organised way of working
- Calm, efficient time management through peak production
- Comfort scaling recipes and working with baker's percentages
- A hospitality mindset, and you're a great teammate who's also self-driven
- A California Food Handler Card, or willingness to get one within 30 days of hire

What we offer
- $23–$28/hour plus tips, averaging an estimated $400/week
- Health, dental and vision insurance
- Paid time off
- 401(k)
- Dining discounts
- Great local produce to work with, and a say in new seasonal items

The physical bit
Early starts (3 am or 5 am), weekends and some holidays. Standing for most of your shift, lifting up to 50 lbs, and moving around a busy bakery and café.

If this sounds like you, and you're a good human who loves people and learning, send in an application and tell me your favourite pastry.

Talk soon,
Olivia