Staff Product Manager, Strategic Partnerships

CookUnity•New York, NY

2d•$140,000 - $160,000

About The Position

CookUnity is seeking a Staff Product Manager, Strategic Partnerships to own the full picture for CookUnity’s health and wellness brand partnerships. This role involves defining the go-to-market strategy, managing external relationships, and developing the product roadmap and integration architecture to ensure partnerships scale effectively. The Staff Product Manager will act as a bridge between external partner teams and CookUnity’s internal product and engineering organizations, translating commercial agreements into shipped products, managing partner relationships post-launch, and synthesizing learnings to improve future partnerships. The Strategic Partnerships team focuses on building and scaling CookUnity’s key external relationships with health and wellness brands, connected health platforms, and fitness apps. This team operates at the intersection of product, commercial, and operations to create product experiences that drive member growth and retention.

Requirements

7+ years of product management experience.
Meaningful exposure to partner integrations, platform products, or marketplace environments.
Proven experience owning external partner relationships, including managing expectations, running business reviews, and resolving escalations.
Experience launching partnerships or products, with the ability to own 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 for prioritization.
Excellent cross-functional skills to align engineering, design, ops, and external partners.
Comfort operating in ambiguity and bringing structure to early-stage, fast-moving partnership models.
Strong written and verbal communication skills for interfacing with external stakeholders and internal leadership.
Ability to leverage generative AI to increase output quality and speed.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

Define the launch strategy for each new partnership, including messaging, activation plan, launch milestones, and success metrics.
Collaborate with marketing and brand partners on co-branded campaigns, member communications, and channel activation.
Set and track launch KPIs, and conduct post-launch reviews to identify areas for improvement.
Develop partnership launch playbooks to streamline and accelerate new partner go-lives.
Serve as the primary product point of contact for external partners, managing relationships, expectations, escalations, and change requests.
Conduct regular partner touchpoints, including product reviews, roadmap alignment sessions, and quarterly business reviews.
Represent CookUnity at partner on-sites, industry events, and executive meetings.
Own the product roadmap for all partner-facing surfaces, such as co-branded landing pages, benefit redemption flows, member eligibility verification, partner onboarding, and referral attribution.
Collaborate with internal CookUnity PMs to prioritize partnership work within their engineering teams' scope.
Design seamless, high-converting experiences for customers acquired through health and wellness brand partners.
Run A/B tests on partner-specific acquisition and activation flows to enhance conversion, time-to-first-meal, and early retention.
Own the product strategy for CookUnity’s partner integration platform, including APIs, SSO, referral and attribution systems, and data exchange flows.
Translate partnership agreements and commercial commitments into clear product requirements and technical scopes.
Work with engineering and external partner tech teams to ship clean, scalable integrations with clear SLAs and ownership.
Build integration playbooks and scalable frameworks to expedite partner onboarding.
Define the measurement framework for partnership channel performance, including partner-sourced acquisition, activation, retention, and LTV.
Identify opportunities to leverage integrations for compounding growth and retention.
Incorporate partner learnings into CookUnity’s core product roadmap to inform product development based on member behavior.