Instacart
Principal Product Manager, Ads Quality
Canada - Remote (ON, AB, BC, or NS Only). Posted 8 days ago
The role
You will own the strategy for Ads Quality across the Sponsored Products franchise. You will partner with engineering, design, data science, and user research to build a flywheel between advertisers, customers and retailers.
What you will do
- Create surface-level controls that balance customer value and advertiser value across Sponsored Products
- Drive a high-velocity experimentation program in merchandising, ranking, and relevance
- Develop a comprehensive strategy for evolving ranking and monetization systems
- Lead system design for complex ranking and relevance systems in partnership with Machine Learning engineers
- Establish yourself as a thought leader on search and how to monetize it
- Define how Sponsored Products evolve in new experiences such as agentic commerce and conversational UI's
- Partner with engineering, design, data science, and UX research to turn problems into hypotheses, requirements, and outcomes
Required qualifications
- Experience with paid search or Sponsored Products advertising
- Experience building machine learning products, including ranking, relevance, or recommendation systems
- Experience with consumer-facing digital product work at a large, complex technology company
- Strong analytical skills and data science savvy
- Critical thinking and executive presence
- Willingness to travel approximately 25% of the time
Nice to have
- BS or MS in computer science, economics, or a related field
- 7-10 years of product management experience, including ownership of product lines generating $100M+ in revenue
- Fluency in data science and machine learning concepts
Benefits
- highly market-competitive compensation and benefits
Before you apply
- Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia
About the company
Instacart is a Flex First team that delivers an essential service for customers to get groceries and household goods. They offer safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.