Insights Manager II

About Instacart

Instacart is working to reshape grocery shopping by making it easier for people to access the food and household essentials they need, while also creating flexible earning opportunities for personal shoppers. The company supports customers who depend on fast, reliable grocery delivery and continues to build the team behind that mission.

Instacart follows a Flex First approach, which means employees can choose the environment where they are most productive, whether that is at home, in an office, or in a coffee shop. The company stays connected through regular in-person events and community-building moments.

Role overview

The Retail Insights team works where rich grocery data, strategic retail partnerships, and category intelligence come together. As Insights Manager II, you will convert complex data into decisions that help shape business strategy for important grocery retail partners. This is a hands-on analytical role for someone who can move from ambiguous questions to clear recommendations and meaningful business outcomes.

What you will do

• Act as the analytical point person for a group of key retail partners, helping the business and the partners make faster and more informed decisions.
• Go beyond surface-level reporting to uncover root causes when performance changes or new opportunities emerge.
• Partner with Business Development to build quarterly business reviews and partner-facing business cases that combine strong analysis with persuasive storytelling.
• Create or improve internal tools, frameworks, and narratives that help teams understand the data and decide what to do next.
• Serve as a trusted subject matter expert on the market, operations, and customer trends affecting your assigned retailers and category landscape.

What success looks like in the first year

• Retail partners regularly seek out your analysis because it helps them make better decisions.
• Your deeper investigations identify the causes behind performance shifts and influence how partners operate on Instacart.
• Your QBRs and sell-in discussions are analytically strong, clearly written, and tied to outcomes that matter to retailers.
• Cross-functional stakeholders have better tools and clearer narratives that help them move from data to action.
• Internal teams rely on you as the go-to expert for business and category insights across your portfolio.

Required experience and capabilities

• At least 3 years of experience in a quantitative business strategy role such as consulting, banking, analytics, or a closely related field.
• Strong command of SQL, including the ability to write efficient and complex queries.
• Comfort working with Excel and data visualization tools.
• Strong analytical judgment with the ability to break down ambiguous problems and extract the key takeaway.
• Excellent communication skills and a track record of managing senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Self-directed mindset with the ability to identify problems, shape them into workable questions, and drive the analysis independently.

Preferred background

• Experience in retail, e-commerce, or grocery, especially with online marketplaces or CPG categories.
• Experience creating business cases or presenting to external clients or partners.

Compensation and benefits

This is a remote role, and the base salary depends on your permanent work location. The role includes market-competitive pay and benefits. In addition to base compensation, the position is eligible for a new hire equity grant and annual refresh grants.

Base salary ranges for US candidates are:

• California, New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey: $153,000 to $161,500 USD
• Washington: $147,000 to $155,000 USD
• Oregon, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington DC, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Colorado, Texas, Illinois, and Hawaii: $140,000 to $148,000 USD
• All other states: $128,000 to $135,000 USD