City Manager, Picnic - Chicago

Who we are

Picnic is transforming office lunch. We make it easy and exciting for employees to order from top local restaurants — with no fees or tips. 

Imagine 100+ restaurants at your fingertips, same prices as takeout and delivered to your floor.

By grouping deliveries, we keep costs low while delivering joy to workplaces every day. Companies use Picnic to boost employee satisfaction, encourage in-office attendance, and simplify lunch logistics.

About the ole

We’re hiring a City Manager to lead Picnic’s expansion into the Chicago market. This is a high-impact, entrepreneurial role that combines strategy, execution, and ownership. You’ll be responsible for making your city successful — working across sales, operations, and restaurant partnerships to build a thriving local ecosystem.

What You’ll Do

• Drive city success from day one: Set goals, track performance, and adapt strategy based on what’s working - get every company in your city to do lunch in a better way.
  
  
• Lead sales: Work with CEO’s and CxO’s of every major company in your city to get them on Picnic.
  
  
• Own restaurant partnerships: Work with top restaurants to onboard menus, improve presentation, and secure pricing that delights customers
  
  
• Ensure client success: Oversee activations and rollouts for key accounts, ensuring a seamless and exciting launch experience
  
  
• Be the local expert: Understand the dynamics of your market — from competitor activity to customer preferences — and use those insights to guide decisions
  
  
• Collaborate cross-functionally: Work with marketing, ops, product, and leadership to bring ideas to life and scale what works
  
  
• Create the brand awareness in your city: Drive the brand in your city through community engagement
  
  

Requirements

• 3–4 years at a top-tier management consulting firm, top tier investment bank, top tier CPG brand manager. MBA from a top business school is a plus.
  
• Strong analytical mindset — you can dig into the numbers to uncover insights and make data-driven decisions
  
  
• Ability to think strategically and act tactically; you enjoy rolling up your sleeves and making things happen
  
  
• Excellent communication and project management skills
  
  
• Entrepreneurial, resourceful, and comfortable with ambiguity
  
  
• Passion for food, startups, or improving the future of work is a big plus
  
  

What else you need to know 

This role is based in our Chicago office location. We believe that people do their best work when they are together. As a company, we’re in the marketplace of ideas and innovation. When you’re constantly innovating, changing how an industry works, inventing new products and processes - and we are doing all these things - we believe we’re better as a team in person. That’s why all of our teams (except for our field-based roles) are now working from one of our office locations 5 days a week. Looking forward to sharing more about a Career of Substance at Picnic. 

Ready to join us as we serve those who serve others? 

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