Description
We're transforming the grocery industry at Instacart, a company that believes everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together.
As a Senior Product Manager, AI Control Studio, you will own the long-term vision, strategy, and roadmap for enabling retailers to create differentiated experiences on top of their storefronts, giving them significantly more control while maintaining appropriate platform guardrails.
Responsibilities
- Build AI-assisted tools that make sophisticated customization dramatically easier and faster for retailers and internal teams.
- Define the right balance between retailer flexibility and platform coherence , enabling meaningful differentiation while preserving conversion, reliability, maintainability, and the other core value the platform provides.
- Expand the platform’s extensibility so retailers can support increasingly sophisticated use cases and connect their storefronts with the broader technology ecosystems they rely on.
- Partner directly with sophisticated enterprise retailers to understand their technical and business needs, shape product strategy, and drive solutions that can scale across the broader platform.
- Work closely with engineering, design, commercial, and other product teams to turn an ambitious long-term vision into a high-velocity roadmap and measurable customer outcomes.
Requirements
- 8+ years of B2B product management or similar experience
- Strong experience operating at the intersection of product and go-to-market, working closely with enterprise sales, marketing, and customer success
- Proven ability to build trust with executives, internally and externally
- Strong leadership skills , able to guide large, multidisciplinary teams toward shared outcomes across Product, Engineering, Data, Design, and GTM
- Demonstrated ability to handle complex product problems across a wide product surface with high ambiguity
- Strong product vision and communication skills , able to envision how grocery and e-commerce will evolve over the next three years, translate near-term asks into scalable platform offerings, and layer in emerging technologies to go beyond incremental improvements
- Proven customer and product strategy ability: a) Build trust with external customers b) Identify needs and craft complex platform solutions c) Rally internal teams to make high-stakes tradeoffs under ambiguity and tight deadlines
- Fluent in both product intuition and data: able to assess value propositions for both retailers and their end customers, balancing qualitative insights and quantitative impact
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with AI-accelerated creation tools , using text/image prompts to help users generate or customize UI, content, or code
- 2+ years of involvement with sales / consulting or customer discovery with senior executives
Benefits
- Highly market-competitive compensation
- Eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants