Senior Manager, Retail Ops Excellence Strategy

We're transforming the grocery industry

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. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.

Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.

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Overview

 

About the Role

The Sr. Manager, Retail Ops Strategy will partner closely with operations, cross-functional, and retail partner leaders and teams to understand, prioritize and develop operational strategies that address our most critical business opportunities and challenges as we deploy Caper Carts and other in-store programs to our retailer partner’s stores and worldwide.  

You will work with Instacart, Caper, and our partner’s operations leaders and to proactively identify, understand, and ensure that we are executing against critical priorities throughout the planning, launch, pilot, and scale stages of deployment.  

You will also work cross-functionally with other leaders and teams at Instacart, Caper, and our retail partners as a strategic thought partner and subject matter expertise on what is needed to support in-store success to influence the evolution of our operations and products to enable them. 

 

About the Team

Instacart is building the future of in-store retail technology and this role would be responsible for building the programs that support its success.  Caper and builds smart shopping carts powered by deep learning and computer vision to enable a seamless grab-and-go retail experience. Caper’s unique technology is a plug-and-play solution that does not require retail store renovation, operational overhaul, heavy computing, and endless image labeling & training. Retailers simply purchase smart shopping carts and the entire store is upgraded with cashierless capabilities!

Caper is one of the fastest-growing retail automation technology products in the market, costs less than 1% of our competition’s infrastructure and is already widely adopted in the marketplace.  Our cross-functional team solves challenging problems in ways that our customers love. 

 

About the Job

In this role you will:

• Partner closely with operations, cross-functional, and retail partner leaders and teams to understand, prioritize and develop operational strategies that address our most critical business opportunities and challenges. 
• Leverage dedicated analyst resources to build and execute a roadmap that establishes operational metrics, targets, and focus to the team and allows Instacart and Caper to bring data-driven approach to ambiguous problems.
• Leverage observation, analytics, and the expertise you build in Caper’s product to identify opportunities for and drive continuous improvement in the retail environment.
• Identify and collaborate with the appropriate cross-functional partners discerningly and effectively, including product, engineering, design, and other teams.  Clearly communicate an objective understanding of operational challenges that leads to the right investment outcomes across the team.

 

About You

Minimum Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience effectively building and driving operational strategy within an organization.  Management experience required.
• Experience establishing metrics, targets, and insights within an organization and managing analytics resources and output to do so.
• Experience leading teams in large-scale initiatives cross-functionally with indirect authority.  You’ve directly worked with teams outside of your direct discipline in previous roles including product, engineering, and analytics.  You have effectively led change and transformation in these areas to support operations in impactful ways.
• Experience collaborating with corporate an