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At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.

Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.

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Overview

About the Role 

The Incentives Marketing Manager will support the planning, execution, and analysis of a variety of consumer incentive programs across Instacart marketing. This role will work closely with cross-functional teams including R&D (Growth Systems), Finance, Marketing Analytics, Data Science, MS&P, Consumer Marketing, Product Operations, and others to jointly shape these programs and drive business impact.  

The ideal candidate should have experience managing marketing incentive campaigns end-to-end from the concepting/strategy stage through execution. They will need to ensure all initiatives are meticulously tracked, documented, and timelines are adhered to. They should have a crisp, clear communication style and be comfortable sharing out high level learnings and best practices.  Additionally, the candidate should excel in a fast-paced environment, possess strong problem-solving skills, and be adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive results.

About the Team 

The Incentives Marketing team is a newly formed pillar in our marketing organization and will drive a centralized vision for promotional incentives across Instacart marketing. This includes consumer-facing promotions that extend both in-app and across marketing channels (e.g. CRM, outbound paid media) for key seasonal moments, strategic initiatives, partnerships, and more. 

About the Job 

  • Collaborate with senior team members to develop incentive marketing campaigns (e.g. Incentives in paid media, seasonal/holiday campaigns, partnership-based incentives, etc.)
  • Maintain our annual incentives calendar
  • Document and maintain the team’s test and learn roadmap. Partner with Technical Program Manager counterpart to monitor timelines and ensure campaigns hit key dates.
  • Maintain a repository of campaign learnings, case studies, FAQs, and other relevant documentation
  • Partner with Marketing Analytics and Data Science to size incentive campaigns (e.g. expected spend, revenue, etc)
  • Collaborate with BD MS&P and Product Ops teams on selling and training materials, keeping them apprised of incentive marketing plans, dates, offers, etc. 
  • Pull campaign reports in Mode, analyze data, and share performance insights (e.g. sales, coupon usage rate, etc) internally and with key partners
  • Pull budget actuals and monitor spend levels 
  • Use internal tooling to set up and monitor a variety of incentive campaigns and promo codes that drive business impact (e.g. revenue, customer acquisition)
  • Light QA of campaigns when they go live. Troubleshoot and drive campaign issues to resolution in partnership with Engineering teams as-needed
  • Serve as one of the team’s subject matter expert on our in-house coupon tools and systems

About You

Minimum Qualifications

  • 3+ years experience in marketing such as Consumer/Brand Marketing, Product Marketing, CRM, Incentives Marketing, or similar
  • Marketing Campaign Management: Prior experience owning campaigns end-to-end, including upfront strategy and ideation through flawless execution. 
  • Data Analysis: Experience analyzing data to inform business decisions 
  • Relationship Skills: Builds strong, productive relationships with cross-functional partners and works collaboratively to achieve common goals.
  • Action-Oriented: Demonstrates a bias for action and a “doer” mentality, proactively addressing challenges and opportunities.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Previous experience with coupons, incentives, and/or e-Commerce. 
  • Familiarity with SQL and or Mode, or other visualization tools. 
  • Bachelor’s degree in related field.

#LI-REMOTE

Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here.

Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.

For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.

CA, NY, CT, NJ
$126,000$140,000 USD
WA
$121,000$134,000 USD
OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI
$116,000$129,000 USD
All other states
$104,000$116,000 USD

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