Group Product Manager, Logistics

Instacart; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 202,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Instacart is seeking a Product Manager to lead their Logistics Product team, focusing on optimizing delivery and service coverage. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in product management, team leadership, and a strong understanding of marketplace dynamics. This remote role offers competitive compensation and the opportunity to influence Instacart's growth strategy.

Benefits

Flexible work location

Market-competitive compensation

New hire equity grant

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management or similar experience.
• Team management experience, developing others and giving feedback.
• Strong understanding of multi-sided marketplace interactions.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Product Managers focused on service coverage and delivery optimization.
• Develop the roadmap for long-term growth and profitability.
• Maintain an experimentation portfolio to drive value through iterative testing.

Skills

Marketplace thinking

Cross-functional communication

Data analysis

Job description

We're transforming the grocery industry

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.

Instacart is a Flex First team

There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.

Overview

About the Team - Instacart’s Logistics Product team is responsible for driving the multi sided fulfillment engine. This team is responsible for providing fast and affordable delivery and pickup options for the customers; flexible, reliable and competitive earnings for our shoppers, and improving the efficiency of fulfillment. The GPM and their team will collaborate closely with engineering, machine learning, data science, and operations teams.

About the Role:

Lead a team of Product Managers focused on service coverage, delivery times, optimizing order batching and routing, shopper matching, positioning and pay.

• Develop the Roadmap and Strategy to improve Instacart's long term growth and profitability, including key outcomes like fulfillment cost and speed.
• Build products and services that generate value for all sides of the marketplace and foster synergistic ecosystem benefits
• Maintain an experimentation portfolio with a consistent cadence, leveraging insights to drive value through iterative testing

About You

Minimum Qualifications

8+ years of product management or similar experienceTeam management experience (direct or indirect)-- developing others, giving tough feedback, creating operating norms and ritualsStrong 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 marketplace -oriented role, envisioning or evaluating algorithms based products and services

#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

$243,000—$270,000 USD

WA

$233,000—$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