Instacart · 15 hours ago
Principal Product Manager, Consumer Innovation
Instacart is transforming the grocery industry by making it effortless for people to discover, plan, and shop for food. The Principal Product Manager will lead the Meals & Health product area, shaping the vision, strategy, and roadmap to enhance customer experiences in meal planning and dietary needs.
Delivery ServiceE-CommerceGroceryShopping
Responsibilities
Own the end-to-end product strategy and roadmap for Meals & Health within Shopping Experience, driving zero-to-one bets from discovery through scaled launch and iteration
Partner with design and research to deeply understand customer needs across inspiration, meal planning, dietary filters, and health-forward discovery; translate insights into simple, elegant product experiences
Define success metrics and run a rigorous experimentation program (A/B tests, multivariate tests) to improve core outcomes such as engagement, conversion, retention, and basket healthfulness
Work cross-functionally with engineering, data science, operations, partnerships, legal, and privacy to deliver responsibly built features at scale, balancing speed with quality and compliance considerations
Build alignment across diverse stakeholders, communicate tradeoffs and decisions with clarity, and ruthlessly prioritize to maximize customer and business impact in a fast-paced environment
Qualification
Required
8+ years of product management experience building consumer products, including ownership of end-to-end user experiences from discovery through launch and iteration
Proven track record shipping zero-to-one products with measurable impact (for example: improved conversion, retention, or engagement) and scaling them to broad adoption
Hands-on experience collaborating with product design and user research to convert insights into clear PRDs, prototypes, and shipped features
Data fluency with experimentation and analytics (for example: defining success metrics, partnering on A/B tests, interpreting results; SQL proficiency or equivalent analytics tooling experience)
Experience operating in highly cross-functional environments, influencing without authority, and aligning multiple stakeholder groups to a clear roadmap
Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (such as Computer Science, Engineering, Design, Business, or a related discipline) or equivalent practical experience
Preferred
Experience in health, nutrition, wellness, or other regulated consumer product spaces
Background in e-commerce, marketplaces, personalization/recommendation systems, search, or content experiences
Startup or 'startup within a startup' experience leading products from zero-to-one in high-ambiguity, fast-moving environments
Familiarity with third-party integrations relevant to meals and health (for example: recipes, nutrition data, or health data platforms)
Exceptional storytelling and communication skills, including the ability to drive alignment across executive and cross-functional audiences
Benefits
New hire equity grant
Annual refresh grants
Company
Instacart
Instacart is an online grocery platform that offers same-day delivery and pickup services for retailers and consumers.
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.92BKey Investors
T. Rowe PriceTiger Global ManagementD1 Capital Partners
2023-09-19IPO
2021-11-01Private Equity· $232M
2021-09-05Secondary Market
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