Staff Product Manager, Strategic Partnerships

Staff Product Manager, Strategic PartnershipsProduct
About CookUnity:Food has lost its soul to modern convenience. And with it, 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 50 million meals a year from the industry’s 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, you’ve found the right job posting.
About the Team:The Strategic Partnerships team builds and scales CookUnity’s most important external relationships — health and wellness brands, connected health platforms, fitness apps, and other partners who share our belief that what you eat is foundational to how you feel. We sit at the intersection of product, commercial, and operations, turning partnership agreements into real product experiences that drive member growth and retention.
The role:We’re hiring a Staff Product Manager, Strategic Partnerships to own the full picture for CookUnity’s health and wellness brand partnerships: the go-to-market strategy that gets each partnership off the ground, the external relationships that keep them healthy, and the product roadmap and integration architecture that makes them work at scale.
You are the bridge between external partner teams and CookUnity’s internal product and engineering org. You translate commercial agreements into shipped product, own the partner relationship from launch onward, and synthesize learnings across partners to build infrastructure that makes every future partnership faster and better.
Responsibilities:Go-to-Market & Partner Launch
Define the launch strategy for each new partnership — messaging, activation plan, launch milestones, and success metrics
Work with marketing and brand partners on co-branded campaigns, member communications, and channel activation
Set and track launch KPIs;
run post-launch reviewsto identify what’s working and what to iterate on
Build partnership launch playbooks that make each new partner go-live smoother and faster than the last
Partner Relationship Management
Serve as CookUnity’s primary product point of contact for external partners — the person they call when something’s working and when it isn’t
Run regular partner touchpoints: product reviews, roadmap alignment sessions, and quarterly business reviews
Manage partner expectations, escalations, and change requests with clear communication and follow-through
Represent CookUnity at partner on-sites, industry events, and executive meetings
Partner Product Experiences
Own the product roadmap for all partner-facing surfaces: co-branded landing pages, benefit redemption flows, member eligibility verification, partner onboarding, and referral attribution
Partner closely with internal CookUnity PMs who own those surface areas to prioritize partnership work within their engineering team’s scope
Design seamless, high-converting experiences for customers who come to CookUnity through health and wellness brand partners
Run A/B tests on partner‑specific acquisition and activation flows to improve conversion, time‑to‑first‑meal, and early retention
Integration Infrastructure
Own the product strategy for CookUnity’s partner integration platform — APIs, SSO, referral and attribution systems, and data exchange flows
Translate partnership agreements and commercial commitments into clear product requirements and technical scopes
Work with engineering and external partner tech teams to ship clean, scalable integrations with clear SLAs and ownership
Build integration playbooks and scalable frameworks so that onboarding the next partner is faster and more predictable than the last
Partner Insights & Growth
Define the measurement framework for partnership channel performance: partner‑sourced acquisition, activation, retention, and LTV
Identify opportunities to turn integrations from one‑time technical connections into compounding growth and retention levers
Surface partner learnings back into CookUnity’s core product roadmap — if health and wellness members behave differently, that insight should shape what we build
Qualifications:
7+ years of product management experience, with meaningful exposure to partner integrations, platform products, or marketplace environments
Proven experience owning external partner relationships — you’ve been the primary point of contact for a strategic partner and know how to manage expectations, run business reviews, and resolve escalations
GTM chops: you’ve launched partnerships or products and can own the strategy from commercial agreement to live activation
Experience translating external partnership or BD agreements into product requirements and shipped product
Strong analytical instincts — comfortable defining metrics, running experiments, and using data to prioritize
Excellent cross‑functional skills: you can align engineering, design, ops, and external partners around shared outcomes without having direct authority over any of them
Comfort operating in ambiguity and bringing structure to early‑stage, fast‑moving partnership models
Strong written and verbal communication — you’ll regularly interface with both external stakeholders and internal leadership
Ability to leverage generative AI to increase output quality and speed.
Preferred requirements:
Experience in health and wellness, insurance benefits, employer perks, or adjacent spaces
Background with API product management, integration platforms, or developer‑facing products
Experience at a marketplace, DTC subscription, or platform company
Familiarity with referral and attribution systems, SSO, or member eligibility verification
Learn More About CookUnityWe believe great leadership starts with alignment on vision, values, and ways of working. To give you deeper insight into who we are and what we’re looking for, we invite you to explore: CookUnity's 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, we’d love to connect!
We grow, you grow: Stock Options Plan granted on Day 1
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.
AI-forward workplace: enterprise access to ChatGPT and Claude to help you work smarter and grow faster.
Wellness perks: fitness subsidies to build a healthy lifestyle
Awesome opportunity to join a company that is looking to change how we eat and how chefs work!
CompensationAll final pay rates will be determined by candidates experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.
Pay Range for this position
$140,000 — $160,000 USD
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.
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