Senior Product Manager, Sponsored Products Marketplace & Formats

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Overview

About the Role

We are hiring a Senior Product Manager to join our Sponsored Products Marketplace and Auction team. Sponsored products is our flagship search advertising product, and accounts for a meaningful portion of our advertising business today. We are looking for a Product Manager who can do it all, from leveraging strong design intuition to innovate on new consumer experiences to drive better engagement with sponsored products, to strong systems thinking and technical chops to comfortably lead improvements around auction dynamics and marketplace inventory to sustainably grow revenue. In this role, you will sit at the intersection of balancing and maximizing ecosystem value across instacart ads revenue, advertiser value, and consumer engagement.

About the Team

• You will be working with a talented team of frontend and ML/backend Engineers, Data Scientists, and Sales / Product Marketers to identify, incubate, and launch products.
• You will also closely partner with consumer Product Managers across search, storefront, checkout, and more and more to thoughtfully design, launch, and scale advertising solutions across the shopping journey.

About the Job

• You will work with designers to innovate on the next frontier on Sponsored Products formats, user experience improvements, and new use cases to improve engagement, all while maintaining a high degree of consistency with the current organic experience.
• You will partner with highly technical ML engineers to innovate across highly technical areas, from building prediction models to identify what ads are most relevant to users in real-time based on their intent, behavior, and contextual signals, to designing the right auction mechanisms to ensure relevance for customers, healthy competition, and efficient allocation of ads, and building predictive pricing algorithms to better optimize across advertiser value and advertising revenue.
• You will work with cross functional partners across sales, insights, and business operations to identify and grow underpenetrated parts of the sponsored products business.

About You

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years in Product Management at a technology company
• Analytical background and a strong systems thinker
• Strong design intuition and ability solve for customer needs
• Strong cross functional collaborator, with a demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships and drive alignment and progress across teams
• Passion for building products that unlock value for multi sided marketplaces
• Thrive in fast-paced, quickly changing environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience building products for and interfacing with B2B stakeholders (advertising and consumer packaged goods a plus)
• Experience operating in marketplace, auction, and supply optimization ecosystems
• Ability to operate high stakes environments, leading communication, and driving alignment with executive leadership

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.

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 US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.

CA, NY, CT, NJ$187,000—$208,000 USDWA$180,000—$200,000 USDOR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI$172,000—$191,000 USDAll other states$156,000—$173,000 USD