Hiring: Director of Product, Logistics Company: Instacart Location: United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 20:44:49 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : Machine Learning, Product Management About the job Experience: •10+ years of product management or similar experience, including 4+ years managing and developing product managers (including senior PMs). Required Skills: •Own the multi-year product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Logistics — spanning service coverage, delivery speed, order batching and routing, shopper matching, positioning, and pay — and drive cross-company momentum behind it. •Partner with the company’s executive leadership to define, prioritize, and deliver the strategy, translating complex, interconnected tradeoffs into crisp narratives that align the organization. •Solve complex fulfillment problems and build 0-to-1 products and services that create synergistic value across customers, shoppers, and retailers, while continuously improving efficiency, speed, and quality at scale. •Lead, hire, develop, and grow a high-performing team of product managers; establish operating rhythms, hiring plans, and development frameworks that build a healthy, high-trust team and develop leaders who set the pace. •Act as a trusted partner to engineering and ML leadership on complex, high-stakes technical tradeoffs; anticipate where to focus the team ahead of the business impact becoming obvious. •Define clear success metrics and maintain a rigorous experimentation portfolio with a consistent cadence, using data, first-principles thinking, and user research to make sound, sometimes irreversible, tradeoffs. •Lead cross-org initiatives that measurably improve org health, and mentor and uplevel PMs across the broader organization. Qualifications: •Strong marketplace or systems thinking — the ability to reason about multi-sided marketplace interactions and long-term vs. short-term tradeoffs, heavily informed by data as well as user research. •Proven track record leading multi-quarter initiatives and delivering impactful products measured by hard business outcomes (e.g., cost, speed, quality). •Strong technical fluency with ML- and algorithms-driven products; comfortable working through complex technical tradeoffs alongside engineering and ML leaders. •Excellent written and verbal communication; able to influence executive leadership and align cross-functional teams in a complex domain. •Demonstrated ability to hire, develop, and retain high-performing PMs and build healthy, high-trust teams. •Background in logistics, fulfillment, supply chain, or operationally complex physical environments. •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. •OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI Compensation: •$291,000 - $307,000 / year •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) •Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!