The opportunity
At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community.
What you'll do
Lead the planning and high quality technical execution of large sized: engineering programs with high degree of ambiguity, complexity, and visibility demonstrating a strong sense of urgency, efficiency, and ownership.
Work closely with Software Engineers, Product Managers, Designers, Data: Scientists, Product Operations, Sales Engineers, Business Development and other cross-functional partners to set project objectives and metric-based success criteria. Drive definition of project requirements and execution plans, and manage an overall program's progress and outcome.
Own clear and effective communication with stakeholders, ensuring alignment: on and awareness of priorities, risks, and changes.
Foster a culture of teamwork and shared goals, creating a collaborative team: environment and driving the right level of process to ensure efficiency and high quality delivery within the program team.
Contribute broadly to Instacart’s success by suggesting and driving organization-wide initiatives.
Uphold the operational excellence framework of retailer launches and continuously contribute to it.
What they're looking for
- + years of work experience post-graduation in a technology field, preferably: as a technical program or project manager, product manager, software engineer (technical domain), or related technical discipline.
- Demonstrated ability to create functional specs, set program structure and: influence program strategy. Previous experience in managing complex multi-org programs end-to-end, from definition to launch, throughout a software development lifecycle.
- A strong communicator with the ability to distill multiple streams of: information, convey priorities and risks, and build a narrative for stakeholders.
- A strong sense of ownership and intellectual curiosity to understand: executional and technical problems in depth, identify potential issues and offer actions to prevent them.
