AI Native Engineer, Growth Marketing

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.

The Role

AI is no longer a roadmap item - it's the operating system for how modern growth teams win. We're hiring a AI Native Engineer, Growth Marketing to be the hands-on builder who embeds AI into every corner of how our Growth team works: performance marketing, creative production, CRM, landing pages, growth ops, and beyond.

This is a rare hybrid role. You're equal parts engineer and growth practitioner - someone who can write a Python script in the morning, ship a Braze-connected AI workflow by afternoon, and explain the business impact to a non-technical stakeholder by EOD. You don't need to have done this at scale before - you need to be obsessed with building at the frontier of what's possible and have the technical chops to make it real.

You'll report directly to the Head of Growth and work across every subteam in the Growth org as their embedded AI engineer.

Responsibilities:

• Performance Marketing: Build AI-powered tools to automate bid strategy analysis, budget pacing alerts, creative performance scoring, and anomaly detection across paid channels (SEM, Meta, Affiliate, YouTube, etc.)
• Creative Studio: Develop AI workflows for ad copy generation, creative brief automation, image asset variation at scale, and creative performance feedback loops between analytics and the studio team
• CRM & Lifecycle: Implement AI-driven personalization and send-time optimization across email, SMS, push, and in-app channels; build agentic workflows that pull Snowflake data, generate segment logic, and trigger Braze campaigns with minimal manual intervention
• Landing Pages & Conversion: Automate LP variant generation, headline testing ideation, and personalization logic by audience segment or traffic source
• Growth Ops: Build internal AI tools - dashboards, Slack bots, report generators - that reduce repetitive analytical work and accelerate decision-making across the team
• Growth Product: Partner with Product and Engineering to identify where AI-powered features (recommendations, dynamic content, smart nudges) can accelerate funnel conversion and retention
• Tooling & Infrastructure: Evaluate, implement, and maintain the AI/ML toolstack that powers Growth - from LLM APIs to workflow orchestration tools to data pipelines

What Success Looks Like

• A measurable reduction in manual hours across mundane Growth through AI-driven automation
• At least 5-10 production-grade AI tools or workflows live and actively used by the team within the first 4 months
• CRM campaigns that are more personalized, faster to launch, and higher-performing because of AI assist
• Creative output volume increases without a proportional increase in headcount
• The Growth team thinks of you first when they want to do something smarter, faster, or at scale

Qualifications:

• 2-5 years of engineering or technical experience, with meaningful hands-on work applying AI/LLMs to real business problems (side projects count - we care about what you've built, not just where)
• Proficiency in Python or Typescript and comfort working with APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar LLM providers)
• Build repeatable skills or plugins for popular LLM clients to empower your team
• Educate and mentor team members to become more AI-Native
• A builder's mentality: you'd rather ship a working prototype than write a spec about one
• Ability to work cross-functionally and translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders

Preferred requirements:

• Experience with workflow orchestration tools (Agent SDK, n8n, Make, Zapier, or custom Typescript/Python pipelines)
• Prior work at a DTC subscription company or growth-stage startup
• Familiarity with prompt engineering, RAG architectures, or fine-tuning
• Experience building internal tools used by non-technical teams
• Familiarity with marketing platforms and data infrastructure - ideally some combination of Braze, Google Ads, Meta Ads Manager, Snowflake, or equivalent
• Strong enough understanding of growth marketing to ask the right questions and build tools that practitioners actually want to use

Technologies You'll Use

• LLM APIs: OpenAI, Anthropic, and/or open-source models
• CRM & Marketing: Braze, Google Ads, Meta Ads Manager
• Data: Snowflake, SQL, Tableau, dbt, Hex
• Orchestration: Typescript, Agent SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Python, n8n, Make, or similar
• Collaboration: Slack, Notion, Jira, Google Workspace

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

Wellness perks: access to fitness subsidies to build a healthy lifestyle

AI-forward workplace: enterprise access to ChatGPT and Claude to help you work smarter and grow faster.

 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

$130,000—$140,000 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.