Influencer Marketing Manager
Mid-level Influencer Marketing role at CookUnity. New York · $100,000–$110,000 base.
Growth Roles summary, based on the employer's posting.
What you'll do
- Own and grow the creator marketing channel across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and newer platforms as a measurable way to acquire customers
- Build the whole operating system from scratch: creator tiers, sourcing, outreach, deal terms, usage rights, tracking and readouts
- Run creator relationships start to finish, covering briefs, contracts, deliverables, content review, payment and reactivation
- Turn chefs, menus and customer data into briefs that give creators specific angles worth posting
- Watch budgets and pacing closely, spotting weak signal early and shifting spend toward what performs
What you bring
- Four or more years running influencer, creator or affiliate programs, ideally for DTC, ecommerce, subscription, marketplace or food brands
- Hands-on with paid creator budgets and negotiating deals, from flat fees and performance incentives to licensing and amplification
- Real comfort with data: CAC, payback, conversion, cohort quality, and knowing reach from actual commercial signal
- A system-builder's instinct, producing playbooks, templates and dashboards that improve each cycle
- Practical curiosity about using AI to speed up sourcing, research, briefing, outreach and reporting
Who this fits
This suits a performance-minded creator marketer who would rather build a scalable program than chase one-off viral posts. You'll thrive if you work autonomously, juggle many moving parts, and open a spreadsheet before a deck. The role is based in New York and pays between 100,000 and 110,000 USD per year.
From the employer
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:
Growth Marketing Team focuses on driving all new revenue for CookUnity's business. Our goal is to grow as fast as possible while maintaining a high level of efficiency. We are a test and learn team that rewards contrarian marketers.
The role:
As our Influencer Marketing Manager, you will own CookUnity's influencer and creator marketing engine as a measurable acquisition channel. You'll build a portfolio of creator relationships across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and emerging platforms; turn CookUnity's chefs, menus, and customer insights into creator-ready angles; and make the channel accountable to incremental new-customer growth.
This is a builder role. Create the operating system, run the deals, and scale our creator channel.
Responsibilities:
- Own and scale CookUnity's influencer and creator marketing program across priority platforms, ensuring partnerships are aligned with new-customer growth, CAC, payback, and quality goals
- Build the creator operating system from the ground up: creator tiers, sourcing workflows, audience-fit scoring, outreach templates, deal structures, usage rights, tracking standards, and post-campaign readouts
- Manage creator relationships end to end, from first contact to brief, contract, deliverables, content review, tracking, payment, and long-term reactivation
- Turn CookUnity's chefs, menus, product experience, and customer data into creator briefs that give partners specific, useful things to say
- Build a creator community through early tastings, chef access, menu drops, data briefings, and repeatable moments that make creators more invested in CookUnity over time
- Monitor budgets and pacing with rigor; identify performance risks early and reallocate toward creators, formats, and offers with stronger signal
- Use AI and automation to improve speed and quality across creator discovery, audience-fit scoring, outreach personalization, brief development, trend mining, comment analysis, and reporting
- Collaborate with paid social, creative, lifecycle, SEO, product, culinary, and chef partnerships teams to turn creator activity into a repeatable growth engine
- Stay on the frontier of creator marketing, platform shifts, AI tooling, and performance measurement so CookUnity keeps learning faster than the category
Qualifications:
You're a performance-minded creator marketer with a builder's mindset. You know the difference between a post that looks good and a program that can scale. You're the kind of person who opens a spreadsheet when others open a deck, then uses that spreadsheet to write a better creative brief.
- 4+ years of experience managing influencer, creator, or affiliate-style partnership programs, ideally for a direct-to-consumer, ecommerce, subscription, marketplace, or food brand
- Experience managing paid creator budgets and negotiating deal structures, including flat fees, performance incentives, usage rights, creator licensing, and paid amplification
- Strong analytical fluency. You are comfortable with data, CAC, payback, conversion, cohort quality, attribution limits, and the difference between reach and commercial signal
- Strong creative judgment. You can brief creators clearly, evaluate whether content will work, and explain why a hook, format, or audience match is likely to perform
- Bias toward system-building over one-off wins. You create playbooks, templates, dashboards, and workflows that make the program stronger after each cycle
- Curious about AI as an operating layer for influencer marketing. No engineering background required; practical experimentation with workflows that make sourcing, research, briefing, outreach, QA, or reporting faster and better
- Detail-oriented project manager who can juggle creators, agencies, contracts, briefs, timelines, budgets, and internal partners without dropping threads
- Commercially sharp and intellectually curious. You bring channel fluency, broader growth judgment, and a clear point of view on where the next dollar should go
- Operate with a high degree of autonomy and accountability. You proactively flag risks, identify opportunities, and push for what you believe in
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
⛱ 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 candidates experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.Pay Range for this position$100,000—$110,000 USDIf 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:
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