Product Analytics (Strategy and Analytics) – Category Growth & Shopping Marketplace
About The Position
Join Instacart’s Product Analytics - Core X team to help accelerate category growth and elevate our Shopping Marketplace experience. You will partner closely with product managers, engineers, and operators to uncover insights, shape strategy, and inform decisions that drive growth and great customer experiences. You will operate in a fast-moving environment with significant executive visibility, collaborating within an immediate analytics team of +5 and a broader cross-functional group of 20+ across Product, Engineering, Operations, and Marketing. If you thrive on owning hard problems end-to-end, rolling up your sleeves in the data, and translating insights into action, this role offers a chance to make an outsized impact while working with talented, mission-driven teammates.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in management consulting, business operations, product analytics, strategy & analytics with a strong quantitative bend
- Proven ability to synthesize data into compelling narratives
- Strong SQL proficiency
- Comfort working in dynamic and sometimes ambiguous environments
- Strong communication skills with experience presenting insights and recommendations to senior leaders and cross-functional partners.
- Able to collaborate effectively across time zones; ideally availability to align with Eastern time working hours
- Comfort translating ambiguous business questions into structured analytical approaches and prioritizing work for highest impact
Nice To Haves
- Experience in marketplace, search/ranking, personalization, pricing, or promotions analytics
- Knowledge of causal inference methods beyond classic A/B testing (e.g., diff-in-diff, propensity scoring, uplift modeling)
- Experience with A/B tests
Responsibilities
- Own the analytics agenda for Category Growth, Shopping Marketplace, and potentially other Product surfaces, including defining north-star and guardrail metrics, establishing measurement plans, and prioritizing high-impact analyses.
- Lead deep dives into marketplace dynamics (e.g., supply/demand, conversion, substitution, unit economics) to diagnose issues, quantify trade-offs, and recommend actionable solutions.
- Translate complex findings into clear narratives and decision frameworks for senior stakeholders; influence roadmaps and prioritization through crisp storytelling and rigorous evidence.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
