Description
At Instacart, we're transforming the grocery industry by delivering an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods.
The Instacart Catalog team is the product data infrastructure powering everything customers see, find, and trust across the marketplace.
We're looking for a Senior Product Manager to own the product data layer that determines how customers find what they need, how brands show up on shelf, and how Instacart earns trust as the definitive source of grocery product data.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end strategy and roadmap for catalog attributes , aligning cross-functional partners around clear outcomes, success metrics, and milestones.
- Translate ambiguous, complex problems into structured plans and drive execution from discovery and prioritization through launch, iteration, and scale.
- Use data and customer insights to run experiments, understand root causes, and design solutions that balance speed and accuracy across the attribute lifecycle.
- Build strong relationships and feedback loops across Product, Engineering, Design, Analytics, Operations, Machine Learning, Sales, Ads, Search, Legal, Brand, and Support.
- Establish and continuously improve mechanisms for operational excellence , owning governance rituals, quality dashboards, postmortems, and platform investments.
Requirements
- 5+ years of product management experience, with meaningful time spent in catalog, data platforms, content systems, or ML/AI-adjacent products.
- Proven ability to set strategy, prioritize ruthlessly, and deliver high-quality outcomes in fast-paced, dynamic environments.
- Demonstrated proficiency using data to drive decisions , defining KPIs, partnering with Analytics, interpreting experiments, and reasoning about precision/recall and ML model tradeoffs.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of building trust and alignment across high-stakeholder-count environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in marketplaces, logistics, e-commerce, or consumer technology, with familiarity balancing multi-sided incentives.
- Hands-on experience with experimentation and analytics , including A/B testing, SQL, and dashboards , and the ability to partner deeply with Engineering and Data teams.
- Experience with product attribute systems, catalog data, content management, or source prioritization at marketplace scale.
Benefits
- Highly market-competitive compensation
- New hire equity grant and annual refresh grants
- Flexible approach to remote work