Senior Product Manager, Ads

Summary

Join Instacart as a Senior Product Manager to build and extend Carrot Ads, the technology suite retailers use to manage their retail media networks. You will collaborate with various teams to build the foundation for data delivery to internal and external customers. This role offers end-to-end ownership of a core technical platform, directly impacting how major retailers scale their ad businesses. The position requires managing the roadmap, driving strategy, leading product planning, and building customer-facing APIs. You will work with a passionate team focused on driving growth for CPGs and delivering award-winning products. The role is remote with a competitive compensation and benefits package, including equity grants.

Requirements

• 5+ years of Product Management experience
• Experience managing ad tech products and platforms
• Experience working in deeply technical domains with the ability to quickly ramp up when onboarding into new areas
• Experience partnering with technical audiences and “translating” to senior audiences across functions
• Direct experience partnering with Engineering and Product teams to identify new roadmap opportunities and improvements
• Ability to manage and align multiple stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Manage the roadmap and execution for Carrot Ads for a diverse set of retailers and use cases
• Drive forward strategy on all aspects of Carrot Ads, especially our ability to speed up retailer integrations and provide them with a comprehensive toolkit to manage their RMN
• Lead product planning, product & customer discovery, the product development process, effort estimation, and collaboration with teams across the organization
• Build and maintain customer-facing APIs with a complex ecosystem of 3rd party partners like retailers, marketplaces, and aggregators
• Ensure Carrot Ads meets the highest standards for uptime, reliability, and speed of integration
• Intake & validate new ideas through a set of frameworks and drive them into implementable projects
• Advocate for developer experience throughout the entire Ads and Eversight R&D organization, and build tools that allow Sales Engineering to rapidly decrease implementation cost

Preferred Qualifications

• Fluent in API and web app technologies
• Experience in influencing and building out multi year strategy

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