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. 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.
Overview
The Instacart Catalog team is the product data infrastructure powering everything customers see, find, and trust across the marketplace. We ingest data from retailers and third-party sources and use AI/ML and human operations to validate, enrich, and publish product information at scale.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end strategy and roadmap for catalog attributes , aligning cross-functional partners around clear outcomes, success metrics, and milestones, and maintaining a roadmap process transparent enough that every side of the marketplace can depend on it.
- Translate ambiguous, complex problems into structured plans and drive execution from discovery and prioritization through launch, iteration, and scale, spanning a development process that includes Ops, Engineering, ML, Legal, and commercial partners.
- Use data and customer insights to run experiments, understand root causes, and design solutions that balance speed and accuracy across the attribute lifecycle , defining KPIs, interpreting results, and making sound tradeoffs between precision and recall.
- Build strong relationships and feedback loops across Product, Engineering, Design, Analytics, Operations, Machine Learning, Sales, Ads, Search, Legal, Brand, and Support , communicating transparently to drive clarity, commitment, and shared ownership of attribute quality.
- Establish and continuously improve mechanisms for operational excellence , owning governance rituals, quality dashboards, postmortems, and platform investments that make attribute quality defensible at scale and compound over time.
Requirements
- 5+ years of product management experience, with meaningful time spent in catalog, data platforms, content systems, or ML/AI-adjacent products , including ownership of complex, cross-functional programs with measurable impact.
- Proven ability to set strategy, prioritize ruthlessly, and deliver high-quality outcomes in fast-paced, dynamic environments , including building governance structures and quality systems, not just shipping features.
- Demonstrated proficiency using data to drive decisions , defining KPIs, partnering with Analytics, interpreting experiments, and reasoning about precision/recall and ML model tradeoffs , with comfort navigating ambiguity to find clarity.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of building trust and alignment across high-stakeholder-count environments where no single team controls all the inputs.
Benefits
- Highly market-competitive compensation
- New hire equity grant
- Annual refresh grants
- Flexible approach to remote work
Salary Range
- CA, NY, CT, NJ: $189,000-$199,500 USD
- WA: $181,000-$191,000 USD
- OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI: $174,000-$183,500 USD
- All other states: $158,000-$166,500 USD