Director, Brand Growth

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:

At CookUnity, the Brand Marketing team is responsible for developing and executing world-class marketing activations and experiences that drive organic growth through brand awareness and earn loyalty beyond reason. This team sets the vision and strategy for the brand and brings it to life with strategic rigor, creative excellence, and cultural relevance. Through insight-inspired, data-led brand storytelling and experiences, CookUnity’s Brand Marketing team will build a category-defining brand loved by an entire generation of foodies.

The Role:

CookUnity is seeking an experienced and dynamic leader to join the growing Brand team as Senior Director, Brand Growth at an exciting moment of brand expansion and company hyper-growth. This role will lead organic customer acquisition efforts, with full strategic and creative ownership of upper-funnel brand marketing and integrated GTM. Reporting to the VP of Brand Marketing, this leader will play an essential role in achieving ambitious company milestones and be a critical leader across the organization.

The Senior Director, Brand Growth, will establish the vision, direction, and budget to drive transformational organic growth through a best-in-class brand creative engine. This leader will set the objectives, KPIs, and metrics, as well as monitor the performance and ROI of those initiatives. Embracing a test and learn mentality, they will bring structured intentionality to uncovering means of effectively reaching and resonating with high-value customer targets. This will require constructing and executing creative experimentation frameworks with the ability to identify and scale winning strategies.

The ideal candidate will bring a strong leadership presence to the Brand team and build rapport with key stakeholders and executives across the company. They will embrace leadership responsibilities beyond project execution and, through their partnership, up-level those with whom they collaborate.

Responsibilities:

• Own the development of integrated brand campaigns from strategy to launch — including business objectives, creative brief creation, agency oversight, and cross-functional execution

• Translate audience insights, brand strategy, and business goals into breakthrough creative that drives emotional resonance and reinforces CookUnity’s distinct positioning and narrative

• Develop strategic & creative frameworks that shape upper-funnel brand expressions across priority channels to enable autonomous execution with high brand cohesiveness

• Own performance monitoring and assessment of key brand metrics, including brand awareness, sentiment, consideration, reach, traffic, leads, and conversions

• Evaluate performance data, reporting insight,s and drivers of business impact for real-time optimization and to inform campaign plans and broader marketing strategies

• Collaborate closely with partners in Growth, Product Marketing, Engagement Marketing, PR, Social, Chef Success, and Product to align campaigns with business and GTM priorities

• Co-lead semi-annual strategic planning process with Brand leadership, defining priorities, KPI targets, upper funnel investment, and impact estimation tied to brand health, organic acquisition, and overall company business goals

• Manage the social media function as a key discipline for accelerating and amplifying earned reach and organic growth

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of relevant work experience in high-growth premium consumer and/or technology brands, including 4-5 years of experience managing multi-person teams.

• Hands-on experience in brand marketing, integrated campaigns, business and creative strategy, and rigorous data analysis and insight development

• Proven track record leading brand campaigns that deliver both creative excellence and measurable business impact

• Ability to proactively create solutions by digging into challenges and opportunities, breaking down complex problems, and forming hypotheses and proposals with limited information

• Ability to manage multiple complex projects, initiatives, or programs at the same time, effectively prioritizing your focus and your team to drive maximum impact in a dynamic, fast-paced, consumer-centric organization

• Outstanding management and leadership skills that will help improve the talent and capabilities of the current team, as well as bring additional A+ talent to the Brand team

Personal Attributes:

• Proactive in nature, actively looking for ways to add value without needing to be asked

• Entrepreneurial approach to making things happen without excessive resources and easily flexing between high-level strategy and hands-on execution

• Solution-oriented mindset, focused on bringing ideas, answers, and proposals to enact change and constant improvement

• Highly collaborative partner who can effectively influence, build momentum, and lead with confidence and credibility

• Data-driven, insight-inspiring analytical thinker who brings curiosity and rigor to all aspects of their work

• A world-class communicator with top-tier writing, presentation, and organizational skills

• A relentless creator of outcomes who is tenacious about bringing big ideas, strategies, and executions into existence with conviction

• A great team player who adds to our culture and is a joy to work with

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 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!

Benefits

🩺 Health Insurance coverage (Canada Life)

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

🌟 Eligible for a bi-annual performance bonus

⛱ Flexible Paid Time Off

🗓️ 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: 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 candidates experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.
Pay Range for this position
$190,000—$210,000 USD

If you’re interested in this role, please submit your application, and if we think you might be a fit, we'll 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.

A quick note for all candidates
We’ve recently seen an increase in recruitment scams across the industry, and we want to make sure you (and your data) stay safe while applying to CookUnity. We also want you to know that we take this seriously — sometimes, as part of our process, we may ask for a brief “proof of humanity” to confirm that we’re connecting with a real person, not an impersonator. Here are a few tips to help you protect yourself and know what to expect from us:

• Apply only through our official channels. All open roles are listed on our official careers page: careers.cookunity.com

• Our recruiters are real people — and easy to verify. You can always find them on LinkedIn with verified profiles. If you’re unsure, feel free to reach out to us on our official LinkedIn Company Page.

• We only communicate through official CookUnity channels. That means emails ending in @cookunity.com and interviews held through official company platforms (Google Meet or Zoom) — never WhatsApp, Telegram, or SMS.

• We’ll never ask for payment or personal financial details. If anyone does, please don’t share any information and let us know right away.

If something ever feels off or you’re unsure about a message, we’d much rather you double-check with us. You can always contact us directly through any of our social media channels. We appreciate your interest in joining CookUnity — and we care about keeping your experience (and safety) as genuine as possible.