Hiring: Senior Product Manager, AI Control Studio Company: Instacart Location: United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 20:44:48 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : Product Management, Product Strategy, R About the job Experience: •8+ years of B2B product management or similar experience •2+ years of involvement with sales / consulting or customer discovery with senior executives Required Skills: •The right person will bring exceptional product judgment, very high throughput decision making, and strong technical acumen. They will be able to partner deeply with senior engineers, align a complex group of stakeholders around a long-term vision and challenge conventional approaches when necessary. •Own the long-term vision, strategy, and roadmap for enabling retailers to create differentiated experiences on top of their storefronts, giving them significantly more control while maintaining appropriate platform guardrails. •Build AI-assisted tools that make sophisticated customization dramatically easier and faster for retailers and internal teams. •Define the right balance between retailer flexibility and platform coherence — enabling meaningful differentiation while preserving conversion, reliability, maintainability, and the other core value the platform provides. •Expand the platform’s extensibility so retailers can support increasingly sophisticated use cases and connect their storefronts with the broader technology ecosystems they rely on. •Partner directly with sophisticated enterprise retailers to understand their technical and business needs, shape product strategy, and drive solutions that can scale across the broader platform. •Work closely with engineering, design, commercial, and other product teams to turn an ambitious long-term vision into a high-velocity roadmap and measurable customer outcomes. Qualifications: •Strong experience operating at the intersection of product and go-to-market, working closely with enterprise sales, marketing, and customer success. •Proven ability to build trust with executives, internally and externally. •Strong leadership skills — able to guide large, multidisciplinary teams toward shared outcomes across Product, Engineering, Data, Design, and GTM. •Demonstrated ability to handle complex product problems across a wide product surface with high ambiguity. •Strong product vision and communication skills — able to envision how grocery and e-commerce will evolve over the next three years, translate near-term asks into scalable platform offerings, and layer in emerging technologies to go beyond incremental improvements. •Build trust with external customers •Identify needs and craft complex platform solutions •Rally internal teams to make high-stakes tradeoffs under ambiguity and tight deadlines •Fluent in both product intuition and data: able to assess value propositions for both retailers and their end customers, balancing qualitative insights and quantitative impact. •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. Compensation: •$221,000 - $233,000 / 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!