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
Join Instacart’s Product Analytics - Core X team to help accelerate category growth and elevate our Shopping Marketplace experience. You will partner closely with product managers, engineers, and operators to uncover insights, shape strategy, and inform decisions that drive growth and great customer experiences.
You will operate in a fast-moving environment with significant executive visibility, collaborating within an immediate analytics team of +5 and a broader cross-functional group of 20+ across Product, Engineering, Operations, and Marketing.
If you thrive on owning hard problems end-to-end, rolling up your sleeves in the data, and translating insights into action, this role offers a chance to make an outsized impact while working with talented, mission-driven teammates.
About the Job
- Own the analytics agenda for Category Growth, Shopping Marketplace, and potentially other Product surfaces, including defining north-star and guardrail metrics, establishing measurement plans, and prioritizing high-impact analyses.
- Lead deep dives into marketplace dynamics (e.g., supply/demand, conversion, substitution, unit economics) to diagnose issues, quantify trade-offs, and recommend actionable solutions.
- Translate complex findings into clear narratives and decision frameworks for senior stakeholders; influence roadmaps and prioritization through crisp storytelling and rigorous evidence.
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience in management consulting, business operations, product analytics, strategy & analytics with a strong quantitative bend
- Proven ability to synthesize data into compelling narratives
- Strong SQL proficiency
- Comfort working in dynamic and sometimes ambiguous environments
- Strong communication skills with experience presenting insights and recommendations to senior leaders and cross-functional partners.
- Able to collaborate effectively across time zones; ideally availability to align with Eastern time working hours
- Comfort translating ambiguous business questions into structured analytical approaches and prioritizing work for highest impact
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in marketplace, search/ranking, personalization, pricing, or promotions analytics
- Knowledge of causal inference methods beyond classic A/B testing (e.g., diff-in-diff, propensity scoring, uplift modeling)
- Experience with A/B tests
#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. Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.
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 Canadian based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
CAN
$123,000—$130,000 CAD
