Director of Product Management, CookUnity
Shopper Experience
$250-280k
+ Stock Options Plan granted on Day 1 + Eligible for a bi-annual performance bonus
1 day a week in office
Ready-meal delivery marketplace
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Ready-meal delivery marketplace
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$250-280k
+ Stock Options Plan granted on Day 1 + Eligible for a bi-annual performance bonus
1 day a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
CookUnity is on a mission to unlock the world’s best food creators and bring their meals to the masses.
Role
Who you are
- 8–12 years in product management, with 3–5 years leading consumer-facing product teams in a marketplace or consumer-tech business (e.g., food delivery, e-commerce, mobility)
- Proven record of driving activation, engagement, and retention at scale
- Experience managing PMs/GPMs and building high-performing, collaborative product teams
- Strong operator who thrives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and can make clear trade-offs between customer delight and operational constraints
- Excellent communicator who influences executives and inspires cross-functional teams
- Data-driven with technical fluency in experimentation, analytics, and consumer product development
- Hands-on experience applying personalization and ML/AI in consumer journeys is a plus
- Leadership experience managing product managers or group PMs
- Deep understanding of consumer journeys, engagement loops, and retention levers
- Marketplace or platform background with experience balancing consumer and supply-side needs
- Ability to operate at both strategic and execution levels—zooming from vision to delivery
- Track record of delivering measurable business impact
What the job involves
- CookUnity is building the leading chef-to-consumer marketplace, and we’re looking for a Director of Product to own the Shopper Experience end-to-end
- Reporting directly to the SVP of Product & Design, you’ll lead the team responsible for how customers explore, order, and re-engage with CookUnity—driving long term retention, engagement, personalization, and loyalty
- This is a high-impact leadership role: you’ll be accountable for delivering a best-in-class experience that drives retention, engagement, and long-term loyalty, while balancing the unique dynamics of a two-sided marketplace
- Lead Shopper Experience Strategy: Define and execute the end to end retention product vision for how customers browse, select, and reorder meals
- Manage & Develop a Team: Lead and mentor PMs, ensuring alignment to company goals while fostering growth and accountability
- Deliver Measurable Outcomes: Drive improvements in discovery, repeat ordering, and long-term retention
- Scale Retention Levers: Build and optimize features like personalized discovery, loyalty programs, predictive nudges, and new 0→1 ordering modes
- Balance Marketplace Dynamics: Ensure customer delight while maintaining alignment with chef supply and operational realities
- Apply Data & AI: Use experimentation, analytics, and ML/AI-driven personalization to continuously improve the customer journey
- Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with Design, Engineering, Operations, and Data to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions
- Raise Organizational Bar: Establish best practices for product strategy, briefs, and experimentation that elevate the entire product org
- Define and own the end-to-end shopper experience strategy post-acquisition
- Deliver measurable improvements in customer activation, repeat ordering, and long-term loyalty
- Build and scale personalization and retention features that deepen engagement
- Grow and mentor a high-performing product team
- Ensure best-in-class execution practices across the product lifecycle
Our take
CookUnity is a meal subscription service which connects consumers with some of the country's best known chefs, including Esther Choi, Chris Ratel and Andy Mendez. Consumers can select from a menu of handcrafted meals that cater to a wide variety of palates and dietary preferences. Believing that healthy food fuels stronger communities, CookUnity contributes to an ongoing partnership and donation with the Food Bank For New York City.
The New York founded business hit the headlines for its upward trajectory in 2020, where it secured 15.5 million in funding and saw an expected boost not just in demand, but in the supply of top culinary talent at a time when restaurants were struggling.
While there’s a wide world of meal plan delivery services, CookUnity has a jump on much of the competition as it’s the first service that connects such eminent chefs directly with the customer. This has allowed it to expand across much of the US, and it now prepares over 10 million meals annually for its 50,000 subscribers.
With most of the urban US now covered by its service, CookUnity is moving into the next phase of its growth, expanding the range of sellers and food products on the platform, and has plans to offer family-sized portions, brekfast options and cooking classes using its existing physical and digital infrastructure. This will enable it to grow into an all-in-one meal subscription service over the coming years.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
30% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Apr 2023
$47m
LATE VC
Sep 2021
$47m
SERIES B
Total funding: $119.3m
Company benefits
- 📈 We grow, you grow: Stock Options Plan granted on Day 1
- 🏖 Unlimited PTO policy and paid holidays off
- 🐣 Family leave: 12 weeks for primary caregiver and 6 weeks for secondary caregiver, fully paid
- 🕯 Compassionate Leave: 3-5 days each time the need arises
- 🥙 A generous amount of CookUnity credits to enjoy our amazing meals, added to your account, monthly
- 🧘🏽♀️ Wellness perks: access to a nutritional coach and fitness subsidies to build a healthy lifestyle
- 👩🏾🏫 Personalized Spanish coach
Company HQ
Bedford-Stuyvesant, NY
Leadership
Mateo Marietti
(CEO)Born on a farm in Argentina, Mateo is on a mission to make great real food available for all and a more fair and sustainable food system. He has built 10+ food brands that delivered more than 25M meals combined in the last 13 years, including SUSHIPOP and La Causa.
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