Insights Manager II

Summary

Join Instacart's Retail Insights team as an Insights Manager and partner with cross-functional teams to drive retailer and category growth. Leverage internal and external data to influence business decisions, conduct market intelligence, and unlock growth across strategic partnerships and categories. You will analyze market dynamics, solve ambiguous problems, and provide tools to answer key business performance questions. This hybrid role involves both internal and external client-facing responsibilities, requiring strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills. Instacart offers competitive compensation and benefits, including a remote work option and equity grants.

Requirements

• 3+ years work experience in a quantitative business strategy role
• Proficient SQL, Excel, and data visualization tools experience
• Ability to write complex, efficient, and eloquent SQL queries to extract data
• Strong analytical skills; ability to logically reason through a complex problem step by step and identify pitfalls
• Ability to deal with ambiguity; a self-starter with the ability to quickly respond to problems independently, consider all stakeholder needs, and answer the “so what” questions
• Polished communication skills and ability to manage a number of senior stakeholder relationships, both internal and external

Responsibilities

• Leverage data and analytics to gain a deep understanding of our business, uncover short and long-term trends, and help drive critical business decision-making for a set of key retailers and CPG categories
• Partner with our Business Development Retail team to craft business cases to sell-in additional Instacart products and offerings and conduct quarterly business reviews
• Partner with our Category Leadership team to decompose CPG category performance, build executive reporting and core dashboard infrastructure, and unlock internal business cases
• Tell stories with data; ability to immerse yourself in Instacart’s vast database, pull together the relevant datasets using SQL, conduct analysis on the data to extract the key insights, and then assemble those insights into a compelling narrative and communicate it effectively to key internal stakeholders
• Conduct deep dive analysis that uncover the root cause of issues, or to unearth insights that can help our partners grow or improve their business
• Maintain strong stakeholder relationships both internally and externally

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with retail and e-commerce

Benefits

• Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits
• Remote work
• New hire equity grant
• Annual refresh grants
• $126,000 — $140,000 CAD (base pay range for Canadian candidates)