Are you a food artist with great cooking skills who loves to work in an open kitchen? Then keep reading.
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Based in Amsterdam
Full-time ( 40 hours/week over 5 working days)
A market conform salary in scale V or VI conform CAO Horeca depending on experience.
Start September - October 2026
At Zoku, we’re not your typical hotel. We’re a community-driven space where people can live, work, socialize, and connect with the city around them. We believe hospitality should feel personal, human, and effortless and that starts with the people on our team. That’s where you come in!
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Life doesn’t become more social than through sharing food. That’s our founding food philosophy and it can be yours too. The food that comes out of our Living Kitchen is fresh, simple, honest, healthy and local. With short-end preparation times, simple ingredients and limited preparation steps, our assortment is incredibly intelligent and facilitates fast service.
As a Chef de Partie, you'll help prepare and plate the dishes coming out of our Living Kitchen, making sure everything looks great and tastes even better.
WHAT MAKES OUR KITCHEN UNIQUE?
An open kitchen, not a back-of-house hideaway. Cook in a bright space and connect directly with our guests.
Room to be creative. Bring your own ideas to the table and work with fresh, seasonal ingredients.
Independence with a strong team around you. Own your section while working closely with the kitchen, front of house and wider Zoku team.
A kitchen that does things differently. From our rooftop setting to our vegetable-forward approach, we're not your average hotel kitchen.
WHEN YOU'LL BE ON
You enjoy working different hours as the Living Kitchen is open from 7:00 to 22:00 serving breakfeast, brunch, lunch and dinner.
Morning Shift (AM Shift): 06:30 to 15:00 or 07:00 to 15:30.
Evening Shift (PM Shift): 15:00 to 23:30.
WE LOVE PEOPLE WHO...
Show their creativity through their passion for food and never settle for less.
Can juggle many tasks at the same time while remaining cool headed and warm hearted.
Have experience in working independently and don't believe in traditional kitchen hierarchies.
Enjoy working in an open kitchen and love to chat up a storm with our residents.
Have experience in healthy homestyle cooking – vegetarian cooking skills are a plus.
Have provable knowledge of various cooking techniques.
A FEW MUST HAVES
You have working experience in a Chef (Chef de Partie) position.
You have experience with implementing the local HACCP guidelines.
You are fluent in English – other languages are a plus.
You are an EU resident or have a working and living permit valid for the Netherlands.
You are flexible, as you’ll have no fixed working days / hours.
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?
A market conform salary package in scale V or VI in accordance with experience and know-how.
Enjoy the same delicious lunch as our residents in our vibrant Social Spaces overlooking the city.
A fun, young, multi-national company with colleagues from across the globe to meet, learn and grow with. 
Cool benefits like a free after-work drink, various discounts and friends & family rates at all Zoku locations
A cool comfy uniform – no more looking like a log!
Exciting on-the-job training opportunities and fun events throughout the year to celebrate achievements and milestones.
A full-time position at one of the 25 coolest hotels in the world, that feels like a second home and is purpose-driven
Get a personal Swapfiets or a travel allowance for your 1 KM+ work commute. Making your daily grind easier!
Zoku combines the energy of a lifestyle brand with the warmth of a close knit team. We challenge traditional hospitality by creating spaces where people genuinely connect, whether they’re staying for one night or several months.
Next to our award-winning design and our global press fan club, we’re proud to be a certified B Corp across all our locations, meaning we care deeply about people, community, and doing business with a heart (not just as a marketing line).
WHAT THE ZOKU?!
We’re Zoku. Designed for the new generation of business travelers, we’re so much more than a long stay hotel. We’re a place you can call your second home, even on your first visit. We’ve created a hive of private Lofts and rooftop Social Spaces, so you can stay connected and well rested as you live and work throughout Europe. Throw yourself into your work and play, and effortlessly discover one of our home cities. It will be your home city next.
READY? Hit apply and tell us why this role — and Amsterdam— has your name on it.
Zoku provides a home for business travelers and remote workers who want to live and work in a city for a few days to a few months. We’re a new type of business hotel offering a relaxed place to live, cowork, and socialize – while wiring you into the local scene. Here's everything you need to know about us:
THE END OF THE HOTEL ROOM
Sleep, work, dine, repeat: all from your own private Zoku Loft.
Bye-bye traditional hotel rooms. We did 150 interviews with our target audience and made 6 different prototypes to create the award-winning Zoku Loft: a spacious micro apartment designed for living comfortably and working efficiently.
In a regular hotel room or studio apartment, the bed always dominates. In the Zoku Loft, the big kitchen table serves as a focal point, shifting the center of the space from the bed to the living room. Now you have a truly livable home to explore Paris and work abroad for as long as you want.
ROOFTOP MEETING ROOMS & EVENT SPACES
Say goodbye to boring conference rooms and dull events. Our rooftop meeting venue is designed to fuel connections, spark ideas, and drive productivity. All of our meeting rooms are flooded with natural light and have amazing views overlooking the city.
On top of this, our friendly team of Sidekicks is on hand to help with whatever you may need, whether that’s providing delicious food and drinks from our on-site restaurant or helping you book an overnight stay in a Loft. Host a brainstorm session, networking event, presentation, or workshop, we can do it all!
COWORKING & COMMUNITY
Join a coworking community where everyone knows your name. Tons of natural light? Check! Inspiring spaces with friendly people? Double check! Discover our rooftop coworking spaces on the top floor of every Zoku. We offer Day Passes (with delicious lunch) and monthly coworking memberships.
LOCATED IN LIVELY EUROPEAN CITIES
Find us in some of Europe's most livable cities: Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Paris, Vienna, and more to come!
