Senior Product Manager, CookUnity
Shopping Experience
Ready-meal delivery marketplace
Posted today
Ready-meal delivery marketplace
501-1000 employees
Posted today
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower chefs everywhere to nourish the world through our shared love of great food.
Role
Who you are
- A senior, frontend-first product thinker with deep instincts for consumer UX and a track record of owning high-traffic discovery or browsing surfaces
- Comfortable holding a wide, complex surface area — you can zoom out to set coherent strategy across many screens while staying close enough to the details to make good product decisions
- A strong design partner who can elevate the quality of an experience, not just spec it
- Technically grounded enough to work fluently with frontend engineers, understand component architecture, and reason about how system-level decisions affect the user experience
- Genuinely excited by the challenge of making a large, dynamic food catalog feel simple and delightful to browse
- Collaborative and low-ego at the seam between your work and adjacent PM domains; you know how to maintain shared ownership without losing accountability
- Rigorous about experimentation and metrics without being paralyzed by them
- 8+ years of product management experience, including meaningful ownership of consumer-facing mobile and/or web surfaces at scale
- Demonstrated experience with discovery, browsing, search, or shopping experiences, ideally in a marketplace or catalog-heavy product
- Strong UX instincts and a proven track record of close collaboration with design teams
- Comfortable with frontend product systems (component libraries, server-driven UI, feature flags) and able to partner effectively with frontend engineers
- Experience running A/B experiments, defining metrics, and making data-informed decisions in ambiguous situations
- Excellent cross-functional communication; able to influence design, engineering, and business stakeholders across a complex organization
- Proven ability to manage a large roadmap across multiple surfaces simultaneously
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Senior Product Manager, Discovery Experience to own the consumer-facing surfaces that connect eaters with the meals they'll love
- This is the most-trafficked real estate in the product. From the moment a subscriber opens the app to the moment they complete their order, every screen they touch — the home screen, search, menu, collections, product detail pages, and cart — falls within this role's remit. You'll own the product vision, roadmap, and execution across all of it
- You'll work closely with Design, Engineering, Data Science, and Merchandising to make the discovery experience feel effortless, personal, and exciting
- Own the Discovery Surface End-to-End
- Set and drive the product vision and roadmap across Home Screen, Search, Menu, Swimlanes, Collections, Product Tile & Detail, Cart & Checkout, and Core UI Components
- Define a coherent discovery experience across web and mobile that scales with catalog complexity and evolving user needs
- Manage a large, diverse surface area with competing priorities without losing coherence or momentum
- Ship High-Impact Consumer Features
- Partner with Engineering and Design to build, iterate, and launch features that meaningfully improve how eaters find and choose meals
- Own the product layer of CookUnity's server-driven UI (SDUI) system — thinking critically about how the component architecture enables flexibility for merchandisers while maintaining a great eater experience
- Drive experimentation across discovery surfaces with rigorous metric frameworks
- Elevate the UX
- Partner tightly with Design to create discovery experiences that reduce friction, build confidence, and feel intuitive across every entry point
- Own the quality and consistency of core UI components (loading states, error screens, coachmarks, modals) as a shared foundation across the product
- Maintain a high bar for mobile and web parity, while allowing for platform-native patterns where they matter
- Navigate the Frontend/Intelligence Seam
- Work as a close counterpart to the Sr. PM, Personalization & AI — jointly owning decisions that live at the intersection of how surfaces are designed and what intelligence powers them
- Translate what the personalization and AI systems are capable of into frontend experiences that make that intelligence visible and useful to eaters
- Bring a clear point of view to surface-level decisions even when the upstream inputs are probabilistic, evolving, or contested
- Drive Measurable Business Impact
- Improve conversion across browse surfaces (home, search, swimlanes, collections, full menu)
- Reduce checkout abandonment and cart-to-order friction
- Lift overall funnel CVR and contribution to weekly order frequency and reduction of subscriber churn
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 $15.5M 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 10M 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, breakfast 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.
Freddie
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
- Comprehensive Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
- 401(k) Plan to invest in your future
- Paid Parental Leave
- Wellness Benefit to support your physical, mental and emotional wellbeing
- Unlimited Paid Vacation & Sick Days
- 4-Week Paid Sabbatical after 5 years with us
- Compassionate leave each time the need arises
- Remote/Hybrid/On Site Options
- Employee Stock Options Plan
- Bi-annual bonus based on performance
- Planning Sessions twice a year: New York & Buenos Aires
- Spanish/English Lessons with a private coach
- Monthly CookUnity Credits to enjoy meals crafted by our creators
- Once a month in-person gatherings to fuel connection and belonging
- Chef-Led Culinary Trips to foodie destinations (twice a year)
Company HQ
Bedford-Stuyvesant, NY
Leadership
Mateo Marietti
(Co-Founder & 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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