Market Growth Lead – Local Partnerships & Accounts

Atoms; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 99,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k)

Equity eligibility

Paid time off

Life and disability insurance

Job summary

Picnic in Chicago is seeking a Market Manager to drive growth by promoting our workplace lunch program to office managers and workplace communities. You’ll own end-to-end outreach, relationship-building, and deal-closing, turning customers into repeat partners and referrals.

In this role you’ll shape how we target submarkets, engage locally, and structure compelling proposals while collaborating with restaurant partners and internal GTM teams to optimize expansion and retention across the city.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years in growth, startup founder role, business development, partnerships or market expansion.
• Demonstrated success in a people-facing, unstructured environment where you had to figure out what to do and how to do it.
• Bachelor’s from a top university.
• Comfortable with data: Google Sheets, dashboards, and basic funnel metrics.

Responsibilities

• Drive top-line growth: decide sources of growth and hit the number.
• Develop market strategy: identify submarkets, offices, and verticals in sequence.
• Engage locally: referrals, events, partnerships, community activations.

Skills

Growth strategy

Relationship building

Data dashboards

Market expansion

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Google Sheets

Job description

Picnic in Chicago is seeking a Market Manager to drive growth by promoting our workplace lunch program to office managers and workplace communities. You’ll own end-to-end outreach, relationship-building, and deal-closing, turning customers into repeat partners and referrals.

In this role you’ll shape how we target submarkets, engage locally, and structure compelling proposals while collaborating with restaurant partners and internal GTM teams to optimize expansion and retention across the city.