Vice President Growth Marketing

About CookUnity

Food has lost its soul to modern convenience. And with it has lost the power to nourish inspire and connect us. So in 2018 CookUnity was founded as the first-of-its-kind platform that connects the world with the source of truly great food: chefs. Today CookUnity delivers 35 million meals a year from the industrys best chefs to homes all over the country. Fresh. Ready-to-eat. And crafted with the passion that nourishes body and soul.

Unwilling to stop there CookUnity is expanding beyond delivery to become an ever-innovating marketplace focused on our singular mission:empower Chefs to nourish the world.

If that mission has you hungry in more ways than one youve found the right job posting.

About the Growth Organization

The Growth team at CookUnity is the driving force behind our mission to scale the chef-to-you marketplace category and bring our incredible chef-crafted product to millions of new eaters. We are storytellers strategists and operatorsfueled by data creativity and the pursuit of exponential growth.

As we expand our national footprint the Growth organization plays a key role in shaping how CookUnity acquires retains and re-engages customers blending performance marketing product innovation and brand storytelling to redefine what meal delivery can be.

About the Role

The Vice President Growth Marketing will lead the next stage of CookUnitys growth engine. This executive will own the companys full-funnel growth strategy driving customer acquisition activation retention and lifetime value across all digital and offline channels.

You will set the vision strategy and operational rigor for paid and organic growth while partnering closely with Brand Product Data and Creative leadership. You will oversee a high-performing team of marketers and channel experts across Paid Social Search CRM CRO and Emerging Platformsbuilding scalable data-informed systems that accelerate new customer growth and deepen engagement across the CookUnity experience.

This role reports directly to the Chief Marketing Officer and plays a critical part in shaping the companys strategic roadmap with visibility across executive and board-level discussions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the Growth Strategy: Own the full-funnel growth vision and roadmap integrating paid owned earned and product-led growth initiatives to scale efficiently while protecting CAC and maximizing LTV.
• Team Leadership: Build mentor and inspire a team of high-performing growth marketers channel leads and analysts focused on acquisition conversion and retention.
• Channel Excellence: Oversee performance across Meta Google TikTok DSPs and emerging channels while expanding into new frontiers such as influencer affiliate and partnership-based growth.
• Data & Experimentation: Foster a rigorous culture of testing measurement and optimizationleveraging analytics attribution and cohort insights to drive decisions.
• Product-Led Growth: Partner with Product and Tech to identify and execute high-impact growth loops cross-sell upsell and referral initiatives across the CookUnity ecosystem.
• Brand x Growth Integration: Collaborate with Creative and Brand to develop compelling storytelling and performance-driven creative that elevates CookUnitys chef-led value proposition.
• Forecasting & Performance Management: Own growth forecasting budget allocation and reporting across all digital and offline performance channels.
• Thought Leadership: Stay ahead of emerging trends technologies and platforms (AI personalization creator economy etc.)ensuring CookUnity remains at the forefront of modern marketing innovation.

Qualifications

• 12 years of experience in growth marketing digital acquisition and lifecycle management within fast-paced high-growth DTC or marketplace environments.
• Proven success leading large-scale customer acquisition and retention programs across multiple channels.
• Deep understanding of marketing analytics attribution cohort analysis and performance forecasting.
• Exceptional leadership experience building and managing teams across media data creative and product functions.
• Strong background in experimentation frameworks conversion rate optimization and funnel diagnostics.
• Demonstrated success partnering with senior executives to shape company strategy and growth objectives.
• Experience managing large marketing budgets with an ROI-driven analytical mindset.
• Bachelors degree required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.

Personal Characteristics

• Visionary leader with entrepreneurial energy strategic clarity and a bias toward action.
• Balances creativity and analytical rigorequally fluent in data dashboards and storytelling decks.
• Highly collaborative and capable of influencing across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Deep empathy for the customer and passion for building a category-defining brand.
• Thrives in a fast-paced high-growth environment combining big-picture thinking with tactical execution.
• Strong communicator who inspires teams energizes partners and can represent CookUnity externally as a growth thought leader.

Learn More About CookUnity

We believe great leadership starts with alignment on vision values and ways of working. To give you deeper insight into who we are and what were looking for we invite you to explore:CookUnitys Leadership Principles The values and behaviors that guide how we operate collaborate and scale.

We hope this provides valuable insight into our culture and product vision. If this excites you wed love to connect!

Benefits

Health Insurance coverage

401k Plan

We grow you grow: Stock Options Plan granted on Day 1

Eligible for a bi-annual performance bonus

PTO policy and paid sick days / Unlimited PTO

5- year Sabbatical: After 5 years with CookUnity you get a 4-week paid sabbatical

Paid Family leave

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 fitness subsidies to build a healthy lifestyle

Personalized Spanish coach

Awesome opportunity to join a company that is looking to change how we eat and how chefs work!

Compensation

• All final pay rates will be determined by the candidates experience knowledge skills and abilities of the applicant internal equity and alignment with market data.
• Pay Range for this position: $265000 - $285000 per year.

If youre interested in this role please submit your application and if we think you might be a fit well get in touch with you. Thank you for your time!

CookUnity is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are dedicated to creating a community of inclusion and an environment free from discrimination or harassment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex age sexual orientation gender identity national origin citizenship status protected veteran status genetic information or physical or mental disability.