The opportunity
The Instacart Catalog team is the product data infrastructure powering everything customers see, find, and trust across the marketplace. We ingest data from retailers and third-party sources and use AI/ML and human operations to validate, enrich, and publish product information at scale.
What you'll do
Own the end-to-end strategy and roadmap for catalog attributes: aligning cross-functional partners around clear outcomes, success metrics, and milestones, and maintaining a roadmap process transparent enough that every side of the marketplace can depend on it.
Translate ambiguous, complex problems into structured plans and drive: execution from discovery and prioritization through launch, iteration, and scale, spanning a development process that includes Ops, Engineering, ML, Legal, and commercial partners.
Use data and customer insights to run experiments, understand root causes,: and design solutions that balance speed and accuracy across the attribute lifecycle — defining KPIs, interpreting results, and making sound tradeoffs between precision and recall.
Build strong relationships and feedback loops across Product, Engineering,: Design, Analytics, Operations, Machine Learning, Sales, Ads, Search, Legal, Brand, and Support — communicating transparently to drive clarity, commitment, and shared ownership of attribute quality.
Establish and continuously improve mechanisms for operational excellence —: owning governance rituals, quality dashboards, postmortems, and platform investments that make attribute quality defensible at scale and compound over time.
+ years of product management experience, with meaningful time spent in: catalog, data platforms, content systems, or ML/AI-adjacent products — including ownership of complex, cross-functional programs with measurable impact.
What they're looking for
- Proven ability to set strategy, prioritize ruthlessly, and deliver: high-quality outcomes in fast-paced, dynamic environments — including building governance structures and quality systems, not just shipping features.
- Demonstrated proficiency using data to drive decisions: defining KPIs, partnering with Analytics, interpreting experiments, and reasoning about precision/recall and ML model tradeoffs — with comfort navigating ambiguity to find clarity.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of: building trust and alignment across high-stakeholder-count environments where no single team controls all the inputs.
- Experience in marketplaces, logistics, e-commerce, or consumer technology,: with familiarity balancing multi-sided incentives.
