Insights Manager II

Summary

Join Instacart's Commercial Analytics Team as an Insights Manager and leverage data and analytics to drive critical business decisions. You will focus on commercial partnerships, using internal and external data to influence decision-making, conduct market intelligence, and unlock growth. Responsibilities include identifying and diagnosing platform trends, partnering with commercial teams, conducting deep-dive analyses, and presenting findings to leadership. The ideal candidate possesses 3-5 years of experience in a quantitative business strategy role, proficiency in SQL, Excel, and data visualization tools, and strong analytical and communication skills. This remote role offers competitive compensation and benefits, including equity grants.

Requirements

• 3-5 years work experience in a quantitative business strategy role. This is a great opportunity for those with experience in Consulting, Banking, Analytics, or similar roles. Experience with retail and e-commerce a plus
• Proficient SQL, Excel, and data visualization tools experience. Ability to write complex, efficient, and eloquent SQL queries to extract data
• Ability to tell stories with data: navigate a 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 stakeholders
• Strong analytical skills; ability to logically reason through a complex problem step by step and identify pitfalls
• Strong attention to detail and passion for efficiency; ability to build scalable, automated data processes
• 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, executive presence, and ability to manage a number of senior stakeholder relationships

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 internal commercial leadership
• Own a regular process to flag and diagnose platform trends across intersections of the business, while connecting anomalies to corresponding opportunities for growth
• Partner with our strategic Commercial teams to provide data-driven perspective and analysis on emerging Instacart products and offerings to help strengthen go-to-market strategy
• Conduct deep-dive analyses on high-interest topics through a Commercial lens to uncover growth opportunities across the organization
• Distill complex analyses into succinct takeaways and present findings to Commercial leadership and key cross-functional partners across the company

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with data modeling (dbt, Airflow), git, and Python
• Familiarity with AI/ML concepts

Benefits

• Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work
• This role is remote
• This role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants