Fridge Launch Lead - Scale Ops & Playbooks

CookUnity; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401k Plan

PTO

Job summary

CookUnity is seeking an experienced Operations leader to own the Smart Fridge program end-to-end, growing deployments from 80–100 units and expanding to new markets. You will drive cross-functional alignment across Sales, Logistics, Tech, and Finance while building repeatable launch playbooks and scalable processes.

You will manage readiness, vendor networks, and product upgrade rollouts, ensuring on-time delivery, cost control, and high-quality field execution.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years in operations, field services, retail expansion, or consumer-facing launch functions.
• Genuinely hands-on; comfortable doing the work yourself, not just directing others.
• Proven track record managing concurrent hardware or physical infrastructure rollouts across multiple sites.

Responsibilities

• Own the full launch function end-to-end for the Smart Fridge program.
• Lead operational readiness: from contract to fridge ready to operate day one.
• Build and maintain installation and maintenance vendor networks in every metro.
• Configure systems, integrations, and device setup ahead of go-live.
• Track launch performance: on-time rate, budget adherence, and escalation rate.

Skills

Operations

Launch management

Project management

Cross-functional leadership

Budgeting

Vendor management

Job description

CookUnity is seeking an experienced Operations leader to own the Smart Fridge program end-to-end, growing deployments from 80–100 units and expanding to new markets. You will drive cross-functional alignment across Sales, Logistics, Tech, and Finance while building repeatable launch playbooks and scalable processes.

You will manage readiness, vendor networks, and product upgrade rollouts, ensuring on-time delivery, cost control, and high-quality field execution.