AI Native Engineer, Growth Marketing

Cookunity; United States; On-site; USD 130,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401k Plan

Unlimited PTO

5-year Sabbatical

Paid Family Leave

Wellness Perks

Personalized Spanish Coach

Job summary

Cookunity is hiring an AI Native Engineer, Growth Marketing to embed AI into the Growth team’s operations. This hybrid role requires a balance of engineering skills and marketing insight, with responsibilities including building AI-powered tools and workflows around marketing efforts.

The ideal candidate will have 2–5 years of relevant experience and be proficient in Python or Typescript. Benefits include health insurance, 401k, unlimited PTO, and generous meal credits. Join a company dedicated to transforming food delivery!

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of engineering experience with AI/LLMs.
• Proficiency in Python or Typescript.
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools.

Responsibilities

• Build AI-powered tools for performance marketing.
• Develop AI workflows for diverse marketing needs.
• Automate landing page generation and personalization.

Skills

Python

Typescript

AI/ML

API Integration

Cross-functional Collaboration

Tools

OpenAI

Braze

Snowflake

Google Ads

Meta Ads Manager

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

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
• A awesome opportunity to join a company that is looking to change how we eat and how chefs work!

Compensation

$130,000 — $140,000 USD

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.