Market Manager

ATOMS Careers page; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 87,000 - 102,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k)

Discretionary vacation days

8 paid holidays per year

Job summary

Picnic is seeking a City Growth Lead in Austin to drive business growth while managing local partnerships. You will own the sales process, from identifying opportunities to closing deals and onboarding clients.

This role demands strong relationship-building skills and a passion for community engagement, as you will interact with large office facilities and represent Picnic's mission in your city. The position offers a competitive compensation package and benefits.

Qualifications

• 2 or more years in a growth, sales, business development, partnerships, or account expansion role.
• Proven ability to run a deal from first meeting through close.
• Comfortable with data: Google Sheets, dashboards, and basic funnel metrics.

Responsibilities

• Map and prioritize office opportunities across your city.
• Own deals from first meeting through close and onboard new clients.
• Drive growth within existing accounts and expand services.

Skills

Sales

Business Development

Partnerships

Relationship Building

Communication

Organization

Analytical Skills

Education

Bachelor’s from a top university

Tools

Google Sheets

CRM tools

Job description

At Picnic, we’re reinventing the way employees experience lunch at work. By partnering with top local restaurants and batching hundreds of orders, we make it easy for companies to offer high-quality, individually packed meals, without fees or tips. Our mission is to create a seamless, affordable, and joyful lunch experience that benefits both employees and employers.

Role

Picnic has central teams that handle restaurant partnerships and account management at scale. The City Growth Lead exists to bridge those central teams and the street reality of your city — and to own growth. This is not a pure sales role, but growth is the job.

Responsibilities

New Business and Close Wins

SDRs support initial prospecting outreach. Your job is to take warm leads and get them to yes.

• Map and prioritize office opportunities across your city, tracking building types, employee count, density, and decision maker access
• Own deals from first meeting through close and beyond: discovery, pitch, proposal, signature, and beyond to onboarding, ensuring a great first picnic lunch
• Work with SDRs on territory prioritization and help shape outreach targeting based on your on-the-ground knowledge of the market
• Run a consultative sales process: understand what each company needs and show them how Picnic fits

Account Expansion (in Partnership with the National Accounts Team)

The National Accounts team owns day-to-day customer relationships, support tickets, and issue resolution. Your role is to drive growth on top of that foundation.

• Visit existing Picnic locations to understand the on-the-ground experience: what is working, what is not, and what would make employees order more
• Identify and drive expansion within existing accounts: additional offices, more dining slots, higher participation from employees who have not ordered yet
• Partner with the National Accounts team to share field observations and flag accounts with growth potential or churn risk
• Turn happy customers and office admins into referral sources for new buildings and companies
• Partner with the central restaurant team on cuisine selection for your market, taking into account that most Picnic locations are inside large office facilities or towers with specific logistical and operational constraints
• Bring back local demand signals from the field: which cuisines are underrepresented, what employees in your city actually want, and what works operationally given the building types you are seeing

Local Marketing and Community

• Plan and run grassroots marketing: flyering, pop-ups, office samplings, POC happy hours, and admin appreciation events
• Build a robust Picnic community across social, industry channels, and in-person activations
• Capture competitor moves, building trends, and employee behavior insights and bring them back to the central team

Qualifications

• 2 or more years in a growth, sales, business development, partnerships, or account expansion role
• Bachelor’s from a top university
• Proven ability to run a deal from first meeting through close — you are comfortable owning the full sales motion
• Demonstrable experience building and maintaining professional relationships
• Strong communicator, comfortable with executives, building managers, office admins, and community leaders alike
• Highly organized: able to juggle a live pipeline, field visits, marketing activations, and outreach at the same time
• Comfortable with data: Google Sheets, dashboards, and basic funnel metrics should not slow you down
• Self-starter who does not wait to be told what to do

Nice to Have

• Experience at an early-stage startup
• Background in food, hospitality, real estate, or local community ecosystems
• Experience working alongside or managing SDRs
• Event planning or grassroots marketing experience
• Familiarity with CRM tools or operations platforms

Who You Are

• Very social, outgoing, and genuinely energized by meeting new people
• Motivated by growth outcomes: you like owning a number and hitting it
• Entrepreneurial: you take bold bets and move fast
• Naturally curious and opportunity-oriented: you see angles others miss
• You love your city and want to build something that makes it better
• Comfortable with ambiguity and wearing many hats
• Thrive outside of the 9 to 5: eager to build relationships with external stakeholders in the places they actually are
• Drive real impact: Be part of building the operational engine behind a fast-growing startup that’s redefining how work gets done
• Own your city: Take full ownership of your city’s performance and see the direct results of your ideas and execution every single day
• Work with purpose: Join a mission-driven team focused on making the workplace experience better for thousands of people
• Grow with us: At Picnic, there’s room to grow—personally and professionally—as we scale and take on new challenges together

Location & Work Requirements

This role is based in our Austin office location. All office-based teams work onsite, five days a week.

Compensation

Base salary range: $87,000 to $102,000 per year. Add’l incentive compensation: individuals can earn an estimated annual incentive range of $26,000 - $30,000 when meeting performance expectations. Actual incentive compensation varies based on individual sales performance and targets. Base salary is just one part of your total rewards package. You may also be eligible for equity awards and an annual performance-based bonus.

Benefits Summary (USA Full-Time Exempt Employees)

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance (multiple plans, incl. HSA options)
• Company-paid life and disability insurance (short- and long-term)
• Voluntary insurance: accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity
• Optional supplemental life insurance for self, spouse, and children
• 401(k)
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care, Commuter)
• Discretionary vacation days
• 8 paid holidays per year

Benefits are subject to change at the company's discretion. Atoms accepts applications on an ongoing basis.

As set forth in ATOMS Careers page’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.