Director of Strategic Partnerships – Growth

CookUnity

Director of Strategic Partnerships & Growth for CookUnity focusing on B2B healthcare and corporate verticals. Build partnerships and develop strategies for revenue growth in a culinary platform.

Posted 5/4/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $170,000 - $190,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.
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.
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.
Once the model is proven, hire and lead the partnership and account management team to execute at scale.
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).
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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

🩺 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!

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Hard Skills & Tools

strategic partnershipsbusiness developmententerprise salespipeline managementcontract executionnegotiationsales process creationpartnership framework developmentaccount growth strategiesP&L management

Soft Skills

builder mindsetGTM instinctsrelationship buildingleadershipcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingadaptabilitynegotiation skillsaccountability