Full-Time
Quality Assurance Lead
Cirkul
201-500 employees
Customizes hydration with flavored cartridges
No salary listed
No H1B Sponsorship
Tampa, FL, USA
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- One to two years of experience performing quality control process checks and accurately entering data and results.
- Proficiency in English is required.
- In-depth knowledge of complex packaging equipment.
- Ability to maintain a clean, organized, and safe work area.
- Ability to enter data accurately and perform simple math.
- Ability to follow directions and train and coach other team members.
- Perform document reviews of standard operating procedures, batching records, testing methods, including tasting, and logbooks to ensure Good Manufacturing Practice activities are completed and documented.
- Lead Quality Assurance Technicians in daily activities and serve as a resource for the team.
- Follow work orders and quality control procedures.
- Approve and release laboratory data and reports.
- Partner with others and share knowledge, skills, and information within the assigned team and across functional areas.
- Report food safety and quality issues, problems, deficiencies, errors, incidents, and opportunities to management, and correct them where possible.
- Participate in investigations into minor and major root causes, corrective or preventive actions, and impacts to product safety, identity, strength, quality, or purity.
- Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish.
Cirkul offers a hydration system with reusable BPA-free bottles and flavor cartridges that mix with water to add flavor and adjustable intensity. The bottles come in 12oz, 22oz, and 32oz sizes, with over 100 flavor options and a simple on-the-go customization as you drink. It sells these bottles and cartridges directly online and through subscription, creating recurring revenue. The goal is to make drinking water easier and more enjoyable to help people drink more water and build healthy habits, supported by a broad flavor lineup and a direct-to-consumer model.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Series C
Total Funding
$111.5M
Headquarters
Tampa, Florida
Founded
2016
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Cirkul sold 100,000 limited-edition starter kits after its February 2025 Super Bowl campaign.
- The 2025 USA Swimming deal expands brand visibility at regional and national meets.
- i9 Sports named Cirkul its official hydration partner in September 2025.
What critics are saying
- Blackthorn and Crown sued Cirkul for patent infringement on June 12, 2026.
- An adverse patent ruling unravels the core cartridge business within months.
- Cirkul’s six federal civil cases signal growing IP pressure and legal distraction.
What makes Cirkul unique
- Cirkul’s patented cartridges create a refillable, personalized hydration platform, not a commodity bottle.
- The company launched eight new beverage brands in 2025, broadening beyond water flavoring.
- USA Swimming and i9 Sports partnerships anchor Cirkul inside youth hydration routines.
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↑ 7%USA Swimming, the national governing body for swimming in the United States, today announced Cirkul as its Official Hydration Supplier.
TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Please replace the release with the following corrected version due to multiple revisions. The updated release reads:
TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cirkul, a beverage platform known for its patented flavor cartridges and reusable water bottle, is rolling out 8 new, unique beverage brands directly to consumers. Launched in 2018, Cirkul has maintained a line of 50+ flavors but this marks the first time that the company is launching entirely new brands within its platform. The brands include: Gateway Tea, Frosted, Fission, Squeeze Lemonade, Flyte Electrolyte, Verda, Stage Hydration, and Puressenece (full descriptions below). With these new brands, Cirkul is extending its mission of delivering a health-first, hyper-personalized, convenient product to consumers
American startup Cirkul has raised $70 million in its Series C round, giving it a valuation of $1.07 billion, a new unicorn in Florida and yet another in the United States.
Cirkul, a beverage company known for developing patented flavour cartridges, has raised $70 million in its latest funding round.