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:
This role will play a critical part in helping CookUnity become a more nutrition-forward, science-backed food business by supporting nutrition standards, meal classification, ingredient audits, nutrient optimization initiatives, legal claims documentation, and chef-facing nutrition tools.
This position is ideal for a Nutritionist/Dietitian who is passionate about food science, nutrition standards, ingredient transparency, nutrient optimization, and translating nutrition knowledge into practical tools for culinary teams.
You enjoy being part of a team and understand that the impact of your work will help improve CookUnity’s meals, ingredients, nutrition communication, and overall eater experience.
Responsibilities:
- Nutrition Standards and Meal Classification Support:
- Support the development, documentation, and implementation of CookUnity’s Core Line Nutrition Standards and meal classification framework.
- Assist in classifying active Core Line meals according to the new nutrition standards and process-level classification logic.
- Review recipe and nutrition data to identify whether meals meet defined nutritional criteria.
- Help maintain clear records of meal classification status, gaps, exceptions, and follow-up actions.
- Collaborate with Culinary, Nutrition, Legal, Menu, and Data teams to ensure standards are applied consistently.
- Nutrient Optimization Tools and Playbook Support:
- Support updates to CookUnity’s Nutrition Standards + Legal Claims Playbook.
- Assist in organizing chef-facing nutrition guidelines, claiming criteria, nutrient optimization tips, and practical recipe improvement recommendations.
- Help update internal tools, including CookUnity’s internal and proprietary AI tools, with the latest nutrition standards, classification logic, and nutrient-optimization guidance.
- Translate nutrition science into clear, actionable recommendations for chefs and internal stakeholders.
- Maintain documentation to ensure nutrition guidance is accurate, consistent, and easy to use.
- Ingredient Specification Screening and Standardization:
- Screen priority ingredient specifications against CookUnity’s Nutrient Optimization criteria.
- Identify gaps between current ingredient specifications and desired nutrition or ingredient integrity standards.
- Support the standardization of priority ingredients by reviewing nutrition facts, ingredient labels, additives, claims, and specification documents.
- Help organize findings and recommendations for ingredient upgrades, reformulations, or vendor follow-ups.
- Maintain ingredient tracking files and dashboards to monitor progress across priority ingredient specs.
- Recipe, Cooking Method, and Nutrient-Retention Research Support:
- Assist in preparing documentation for MVP kitchen pilots comparing current versus optimized cooking methods.
- Help collect, organize, and analyze pilot results, including nutritional impact, operational feasibility, and chef feedback.
- Support lab test documentation for cooking-method replacements, including nutrient-retention impact and recommendation summaries.
- Help prepare scale, iterate, or reject recommendations based on pilot and lab validation results.
- Eater-Facing Nutrition Education Support:
- Support the creation of eater-facing education related to nutrient preservation, including reheating, storage, and leftovers best practices.
- Help draft clear, science-backed educational content for customer communication channels such as CRM, FAQs, website content, flyers, or other agreed formats.
- Ensure consumer-facing content is accurate, simple, brand-aligned, and legally appropriate.
- Collaborate with Culinary Nutrition, Marketing, CRM, Legal, and Customer Experience teams as needed.
- Legal Claims and Nutrition Communication Audits:
- Help keep CookUnity’s Nutrition Standards + Legal Claims Playbook updated.
- Support the development of claim standards checklists for nutrition, ingredient, and health-related communications.
- Assist in auditing high-impact communication channels such as meal descriptions, website content, meal names, CRM, PR materials, and other customer-facing assets.
- Document potential claim risks, inconsistencies, or improvement opportunities.
- Support preparation of reports with findings and corrective action recommendations for key stakeholders.
- Ingredients Integrity Audit Support:
- Support the development and implementation of CookUnity’s Ingredients Integrity Audit Standards.
- Assist in auditing ingredients for label accuracy, ingredient declaration accuracy, nutrition facts validation, and alignment with internal standards.
- Help review Recipe Management System ingredient data, ingredient labels, nutrition facts labels, specifications, and vendor-provided documentation.
- Support classification of ingredients by category, impact level, integrity criteria, and compliance status.
- Help build a baseline of ingredient integrity across CookUnity’s ingredient portfolio.
Qualifications:
- Nutritionist/Dietitian degree, or advanced student close to graduation.
- 1–2 years of previous experience in nutrition, food labeling, recipe analysis, ingredient review, food science, quality, or data entry roles.
- Strong understanding of nutrition principles, nutrient analysis, ingredient labels, nutrition facts panels, and food composition.
- Experience reviewing recipes, ingredients, food labels, or nutrition databases is preferred.
- Intermediate/advanced user of Google Sheets/Excel and AI tools such as ChatGPT and Claude.
- Ability to organize large amounts of nutrition, recipe, and ingredient data with accuracy.
- Excellent written and spoken English, as CookUnity’s HQ is located in the USA and the role will interact with global teams.
- Experience in the food industry, culinary operations, meal delivery, food service, or CPG is a plus.
- Knowledge of food regulations, nutrition claims, allergens, additives, or food labeling standards is a plus.
- Knowledge of US Dietary Guidelines and FDA labeling requirements preferred.
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
💸 Get paid in USD
🗺 Work remotely: design the life that you want
⛱ Enjoy 15 days of vacation each year from the start date
🎄 16 fully paid Argentinean holidays
🩺 Healthcare Benefit: Monthly stipend to use in your preferred healthcare provider
🗓️ 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
🧘🏽♀️ Customize the benefits that suit your needs! Access a range of perks tailored to you, including learning opportunities, wellness memberships, delivery apps, and more through our comprehensive benefit platform
🤖 AI-forward workplace: enterprise access to ChatGPT and Claude to help you work smarter and grow faster.
🧑🏫 Personalized English coach
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.