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Staff Product Manager, Strategic Partnerships
CookUnity
Toronto, CAN
Full Time
Senior
1 weeks ago
Product ManagementPartner IntegrationGo to Market StrategyCross functional LeadershipData AnalysisA/B Testing
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About the Role
CookUnity is hiring a Staff Product Manager to own the full picture for health and wellness brand partnerships. The role involves go-to-market strategy, partner relationship management, and product roadmap ownership.
Key Skills for This Role
Product ManagementPartner IntegrationGo to Market StrategyCross functional LeadershipData AnalysisA/B Testing
Responsibilities
- 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 reviews to identify what’s working and what to iterate on
- Build partnership launch playbooks that make each new partner go live smoother and faster
- Serve as CookUnity’s primary product point of contact for external partners
- 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
- 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 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
Requirements
- 7+ years of product management experience, with meaningful exposure to partner integrations, platform products, or marketplace environments
- Proven experience owning external partner relationships
- 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
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and bringing structure to early stage, fast moving partnership models
- Strong written and verbal communication
- Ability to leverage generative AI to increase output quality and speed
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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.
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
- 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 reviews to 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
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
Benefits
- Health Insurance coverage (Canada Life)
- Stock Options Plan granted on Day 1
- 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
- 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
- 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: CAD 140,000—CAD 160,000 USD
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