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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.

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About the Role

Instacart’s catalog technology powers world-class e-commerce storefronts. As a Group Product Manager for our Catalog team at Instacart, you'll lead a group of talented product managers with the exciting challenge of improving and expanding our catalog using artificial intelligence and machine learning. Your role is central to enhancing how we understand and display products, ensuring the accuracy of the catalog in terms of prices, attributes and product identity.  Your leadership will directly influence our customer experience and build a platform that makes all of Instacart’s teams successful.

 

About the Job

  • Identify key opportunities to enhance the catalog by incorporating AI and ML technologies. Clearly articulate the product vision and strategy for the catalog to stakeholders and team members. Advocate for product improvements by leveraging data-driven insights to guide decisions.
  • Ensure the product listings in the catalog are accurately maintained and implement quality control measures to uphold product information integrity. Manage and resolve any catalog-related issues that are reported by users or internal teams.
  • Lead and inspire product managers to execute catalog enhancement initiatives, ensuring cross-collaboration between engineering, operations, and data science teams. Establish effective communication channels to align on project objectives and deadlines. Offer mentorship and career growth opportunities to your team members.
  • Develop and prioritize the catalog roadmap to align with business goals, ensuring timely coordination of cross-functional teams to meet milestones. Monitor progress and make necessary adjustments to deliverables. Lead roadmap planning sessions with stakeholders and clearly communicate any updates or changes to all relevant parties.

 

About the Team

The Instacart Catalog team is one of the most critical and core parts of Instacart, powering 80% of the pixels that users and shoppers see in their experience.  This team ingests retailer catalog data (inventory, images, descriptions, prices, etc), enrich it with data from brands and other sources, and organize and structure/enhance that data in a way we can effectively serve it to internal teams that consume it (Ads, Consumer and Shoppers) and ultimately our customers that shop them.

 

About You

  • Proficiency in artificial intelligence (AI) applications and experience with machine learning (ML) technologies
  • Expertise in data analysis and data-driven decision making
  • Experience in leading product roadmap planning and execution
  • Understanding of user experience and customer interface optimization

Minimum qualifications

  • 8+ years of product management or similar experience
  • Team management experience (direct or indirect)-- developing others, giving tough feedback, creating operating norms and rituals
  • Strong Marketplace or Systems thinking - ability to understand and multi sided marketplace interactions, work through long-term vs. short-term tradeoffs, heavily informed by data, first principles thinking as well as user research
  • Strong XFN communication - helping a cross functional team and leadership understand problems and solutions in a complex domain

Preferred Qualifications

  • Previous experience in a Catalog related role, knowledge of product catalog management systems

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
$243,000—$243,000 USD
WA
$243,000—$259,000 USD
OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI
$223,000—$248,000 USD
All other states
$202,000—$224,000 USD

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