Performance Creative Director

Job Description

Job Description

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:

The Performance Creative Director will drive the next chapter of CookUnity's performance marketing, harnessing AI to amplify storytelling, accelerate content/creative production, and enable rapid creative testing at scale. This role reports to the Head of Growth and operates at the crossroads of strategy, creative, and technology.

Creative strategy is your core: you understand audiences deeply, know what makes ads convert, you are obsessed with testing and can navigate the nuances of different formats. Working closely with the Growth Marketing team, you'll turn strategic priorities into scalable creative systems, testable concepts, and high-performing assets. You'll also architect the AI-driven workflows and production pipelines that multiply output and compress learning cycles.

Responsibilities:

Creative Strategy for Growth Partner with the Growth Marketing team to shape and execute creative strategies across performance channels—Meta, TV, direct mail, YouTube, email, and landing pages—ensuring every concept resonates with real customers. Develop frameworks for high-performing creative territories and connect data, testing insights, and customer behavior to new creative opportunities.

Build CookUnity's AI Creative Engine: Design the end-to-end AI-assisted creative system, including workflows, prompt libraries, guardrails, asset databases, and tool stacks. Integrate AI across formats—research, image, video, motion, and sound—while maintaining quality, consistency, and brand alignment. Use AI to accelerate creation without replacing craft, from rapid prototyping to advanced experimentation.

Scale Creative Production & Velocity: Oversee a pipeline capable of producing a high volume of weekly assets across UGC, motion, product, chef storytelling, and paid media formats. Blend human creativity with AI-enabled workflows to increase speed, reduce bottlenecks, and uphold quality. Build repeatable systems that transform big ideas into scalable, test-ready assets.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with Brand, Growth, CRM, Studio Production, Product, and Engineering to deploy AI-powered creative across campaigns, onboarding flows, lifecycle marketing, and personalization efforts. Partner with Production and Studio teams to balance AI workflows with traditional craft, and collaborate with technical teams to translate creative needs into tools and automated solutions.

Drive Creative Experimentation & Performance: Collaborate with Growth Marketing to design structured testing frameworks, concept logs, and learning agendas. Develop AI-powered methodologies for testing creative variations at scale and translate performance data into actionable creative insights.

Creative Quality & Brand Integrity: Maintain a high bar for taste, clarity, and craft across all assets, whether AI-assisted or human-made. Ensure CookUnity's creative expression remains chef-driven, high-quality, and emotionally resonant.

Lead a Hybrid Creative Team: Mentor and develop designers, editors, AI specialists, and video producers. Foster a culture of curiosity, experimentation, high standards, and operational clarity.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in creative strategy or marketing leadership roles with a track record of innovation.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with generative AI and creative technology tools (e.g., Midjourney, Runway, Google Veo 3, Kling AI, ElevenLabs, Adobe Firefly, Stable Diffusion, HeyGen, N8N).
• Strong understanding of performance marketing, brand storytelling, and content operations.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, and organizational skills.
• Ability to translate complex technology into scalable creative systems.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with comfort in fast-paced, evolving environments.
• Deep curiosity for AI, creativity, and human-machine collaboration.
• Preferred: Experience working in startups, high-growth environments, or tech companies.

Who You Are

Visionary and pragmatic: able to think boldly while building systems that scale. Highly collaborative with strong cross-functional influence. Passionate about creativity, culture, and emerging technology. A hands-on problem solver who balances data with intuition. Resilient, adaptive, and energized by experimentation.

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

We grow, you grow: Stock Options Plan granted on Day 1

Eligible for a bi-annual performance bonus

⛱ 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

$180,000—$240,000 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.