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Bakery Cake Decorator

Iowa City #3, N Dodge St, Iowa City, IA, US💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-30

Core

Design and decorate custom cakes (birthday, wedding, etc.) for customers, manage bakery production schedules, and lead part-time staff.

Role type

Bakery Cake Designer / Lead

Builds

Custom cakes and bakery items for retail customers

Domain

Retail / Food Service

Deliverable

product features

Required skills

Cake decorating, customer service, production scheduling, team leadership, math (fractions, decimals, percentages), sanitation procedures

Preferred skills

Knowledge of current cake design trends

Technologies

None

Responsibilities

Greet customers and take orders, check daily orders and set production timelines, decorate bakery items, develop daily bakery orders, track retail production, order supplies, deliver and set up wedding cakes on-site, instruct and review work of part-time employees, communicate with Bakery Manager, maintain clean and safe work area

Seniority

Entry-level, hands-on IC

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