Senior Technical Program Manager, Enterprise
InstacartGrocery Delivery company
United States$178,000 - $226,000 USDSenior
Sequoia Capital
Andreessen Horowitz
T. Rowe Price
TCV
Kaplan Group Investments
Unanimous Capital
Operations & Strategy
About the role
TL;DR
Lead complex technical programs to enhance Instacart's enterprise platform and products.
- •This role offers the exciting opportunity to leverage your technical expertise and leadership skills to drive programs that enhance our products, applications, platforms, and ultimately, the experiences of millions of customers, shoppers, and partners.
- •As a Senior Technical Program Manager at Instacart, you will be at the forefront of our mission to transform the grocery industry by delivering on Instacart’s most complex and impactful efforts.
- •Key responsibilities include evolving our Enterprise platform to effectively meet retailer needs.
- •Key Responsibilities Lead the planning and high quality technical execution of large sized engineering programs with high degree of ambiguity, complexity, and visibility demonstrating a strong sense of urgency, efficiency, and ownership.
- •Work closely with Software Engineers, Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists, Product Operations, Sales Engineers, Business Development and other cross-functional partners to set project objectives and metric-based success criteria.
- •Own clear and effective communication with stakeholders, ensuring alignment on and awareness of priorities, risks, and changes.
- •Foster a culture of teamwork and shared goals, creating a collaborative team environment and driving the right level of process to ensure efficiency and high quality delivery within the program team.
- •Uphold the operational excellence framework of retailer launches and continuously contribute to it.
- •Requirements 5+ years of work experience post-graduation in a technology field, preferably as a technical program or project manager, product manager, software engineer (technical domain), or related technical discipline.
- •Demonstrated ability to create functional specs, set program structure and influence program strategy.
- •Previous experience in managing complex multi-org programs end-to-end, from definition to launch, throughout a software development lifecycle.
- •A strong communicator with the ability to distill multiple streams of information, convey priorities and risks, and build a narrative for stakeholders.
- •A strong sense of ownership and intellectual curiosity to understand executional and technical problems in depth, identify potential issues and offer actions to prevent them.
- •Excellent collaborator and motivator, able to bring a team together to align and deliver on a common goal.
- •Can build trust and partnerships with senior Engineering and Product leaders.
Required skills
Program ManagementProject ManagementAgileScrumProduct ManagementEngineering ManagementCross-functional Leadership
Nice-to-have skills
Product StrategyGo-to-MarketFeature PrioritizationCustomer DiscoveryProduct AnalyticsCompetitive AnalysisProduct OperationsGrowth StrategyMonetization StrategyJobs to Be Done
Domain expertise
ecommerceretailfoodlogistics
Benefits & perks
Equity, Remote Work
Tech stack
PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptJavaGoSQLBashReactNode.jsDjangoFlaskSpringExpressRuby on Rails.NETReact NativeFlutteriOSAndroidPandasSparkAirflowdbtTableauPower BILookerSnowflakeDatabricksFivetranDagster