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DirectorFull-timeRustData ScienceAIML
Salary Range
$221,000 - $299,000 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
Instacart is seeking a Director of Product to lead their Platform product organization. This role involves setting the long-term vision for commerce and application platforms, managing a team of product managers, and collaborating with engineering and cross-functional leaders to ensure core platforms are reliable, scalable, and easy to build on.
Key Responsibilities
- →Set vision and strategy for Instacart’s core platforms, defining how they evolve over multiple years as the business and product portfolio grow.
- →Own roadmaps and prioritization across multiple platform domains, balancing foundational reliability and scalability work with high-impact enablement for other product teams.
- →Lead a team of PMs (including senior PMs and group PMs), providing coaching, clear expectations, and a strong bar for platform product craft.
- →Drive cross-functional alignment with engineering, data science, operations, finance, and other product teams on major platform initiatives and tradeoffs.
- →Establish and track clear success metrics for platform health and impact (e.g., reliability, performance, safety, and ease-of-use for internal customers).
- →Champion modern, AI-enabled ways of working, both in how platform products are built (e.g., developer experience) and how they support intelligent, automated experiences over time.
Requirements
- ✓10+ years of product management experience, including several years managing PMs (and ideally managing managers) in high-scale technology environments.
- ✓Significant experience with platform, infrastructure, or commerce systems (e.g., payments, order management, identity/fraud, financial or transactional platforms).
- ✓Strong technical fluency and comfort working through system design, tradeoffs, and constraints with senior engineering leaders.
- ✓Proven track record of leading multi-quarter, cross-team platform initiatives and landing durable improvements in reliability, scalability, and developer productivity.
- ✓Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable simplifying complex topics for senior stakeholders and driving alignment across organizations.
- ✓Demonstrated ability to hire, develop, and retain high-performing product managers and build healthy, high-trust teams.
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