B2B - Director of Strategic Partnerships & Growth at CookUnity

United States

$170k - $290k

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 B2B Operations team is responsible for scaling and delivering CookUnity’s new business verticals, such as Smart Fridge and Cold Meal programs, across corporate and healthcare environments. The team collaborates closely with B2C operations, product, and customer experience to ensure seamless execution, operational reliability, and scalable systems that support growth. The role: As Director of Strategic Partnerships & Growth, you will own and scale the partnership channels that drive CookUnity B2B's next phase of revenue growth. This is a senior, cross-functional role for a builder — someone who can develop GTM strategies for each partnership vertical, identify high-value opportunities, close anchor deals, and build the frameworks to scale them. This role spans both our Healthcare and Corporate pods. You will develop the strategy and relationships for each vertical independently — building the playbooks, proving the model, and eventually scaling the team around you. We provide the culinary platform and the infrastructure. You provide the partnership strategy, the relationships, and the leadership to bring it to scale. Responsibilities: Strategic Partnerships — Healthcare & Corporate Own partnership GTM across both healthcare and corporate verticals — developing the strategy, building the pipeline, and closing anchor deals per vertical. Healthcare Partnerships: Build relationships with payers, health systems, employer health programs, Food is Medicine platforms, GLP-1 platforms, and other channels where CookUnity's nutrition offering creates measurable clinical or financial outcomes. Corporate Partnerships: Identify and close deals with large corporations, enterprises, and businesses well-positioned to distribute our meals directly to their employees or members — including hospitality, stadiums, and other institutional channels. Platform & Distribution: Build partnerships with platforms and intermediaries that unlock volume at scale — through co-marketing, integrations, or channel distribution. Enterprise & Institutional Sales Direct Enterprise Sales: Manage the full sales cycle for large corporations and institutional accounts, from C-suite engagement to contract execution and implementation. Institutional Market Expansion: Lead entry into new sectors — hotels, stadiums, hospitals, heavy industries — where opportunities exist or inbound signals warrant. Playbook Development & Growth Short-Term — Solo Play: In the near term, this is an individual contributor role. You'll operate hands-on to build the GTM model, close early deals, and prove the playbook — likely paired with an Account Manager to support execution. Playbook Ownership: Build the repeatable frameworks for partnership development, onboarding, and account growth across healthcare and corporate channels. Long-Term — Team Building: Once the model is proven, hire and lead the partnership and account management team to execute at scale. Cross-Functional Leadership Product Influence: Serve as the defining voice for the B2B product roadmap — ensuring the platform supports the needs of partnership-driven distribution (subsidies, complex billing, co-branded experiences, institutional requirements). Commercial Strategy: Collaborate on P&L and unit economics for the B2B vertical, defining pricing models and contract structures that ensure long-term profitability across partnership channels. Qualifications: 10+ years of experience in strategic partnerships, business development, or enterprise sales leadership — with a track record of closing complex, large-scale deals. Demonstrated experience building and owning partnership channels from scratch — not just executing within an existing structure. Cross-vertical exposure required: experience across healthcare, corporate benefits, or institutional sectors strongly preferred. Proven ability to close deals with major platforms, Fortune 500 companies, or large institutional partners — navigating procurement, legal, and executive relationships. Builder mindset: You are comfortable creating a sales process and partnership framework before hiring a team to execute it. Strong GTM instincts: you understand pipeline, metrics, margins, and sales cycles — and can build the reporting and accountability structures to match. Excellent negotiation skills and comfort navigating the complexity of large-scale institutional and platform deals. 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 🌅 401k Plan 📈 We grow, you grow: Stock Options Plan granted on Day 1 ⛱ 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 🤖 AI-forward workplace: enterprise access to ChatGPT and Claude to help you work smarter and grow faster. 🧘🏽‍♀️ 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 candidate's experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data. Pay Range for this position: $170,000 - $190,000 base. - $270,000 - $290,000 OTE. 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.