VP of Product Design, CookUnity

• 10+ years of experience in product design, at least 4+ years focused on consumer marketplace or e-commerce products
• 4+ years of experience managing designers
• You're experienced in leading, resourcing, and building cross-functional teams
• You have demonstrated the ability to operate successfully in a time-sensitive and fast-paced environment
• You have experience as a strategic design leader and collaborating with executives
• You have a mastery of modern UX research techniques
• You have proven experience creating beautiful, easy-to-use, mobile-first, high-converting digital shopping experiences
• You love food!

• This role manages our Product Design, Product Copywriting, and Research & Insights teams - currently six employees with a plan to grow to 18. You will collaborate closely with the Marketing team (especially our Creative Director) to ensure the brand direction is cohesive across all of CookUnity
• Own the company’s research and digital product design strategy
• Grow the design team and, more importantly, the impact and quality of the solutions
• Mentor your team and the company on design thinking and product design best practices
• Lead all research activities for CookUnity (frequent surveys, user interviews, in-product testing) across both eaters and chefs, and collaborate with Product and Data to draw out insights for action on the teams
• Be a source for breakthrough ideas, particularly ones that result dramatically better customer happiness
• Lead concept testing to evaluate creative opportunities in the user experience
• Extend our design system to better ensure a consistent user experience and a faster design and development process
• Keep internal and external team members up-to-date on progress and learnings

• 📈 We grow, you grow: Stock Options Plan granted on Day 1
• 🏖 Unlimited PTO policy and paid holidays off
• 🐣 Family leave: 12 weeks for primary caregiver and 6 weeks for secondary caregiver, fully paid
• 🕯 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 a nutritional coach and fitness subsidies to build a healthy lifestyle
• 👩🏾‍🏫 Personalized Spanish coach

Total funding: $119.3m

CookUnity is a meal subscription service which connects consumers with some of the country's best known chefs, including Esther Choi, Chris Ratel and Andy Mendez. Consumers can select from a menu of handcrafted meals that cater to a wide variety of palates and dietary preferences. Believing that healthy food fuels stronger communities, CookUnity contributes to an ongoing partnership and donation with the Food Bank For New York City.