Senior Product Manager, Catalog

Instacart is a grocery technology company building a product data infrastructure that powers product discovery and trust across its marketplace. The Senior Product Manager will own the end-to-end strategy, governance, accuracy, and coverage of catalog attributes while coordinating execution across Product, Engineering, Machine Learning, Operations, Legal, and commercial partners.

Responsibilities:

• Own the end-to-end strategy and roadmap for catalog attributes — aligning cross-functional partners around clear outcomes, success metrics, and milestones, and maintaining a roadmap process transparent enough that every side of the marketplace can depend on it
• Translate ambiguous, complex problems into structured plans and drive execution from discovery and prioritization through launch, iteration, and scale, spanning a development process that includes Ops, Engineering, ML, Legal, and commercial partners
• Use data and customer insights to run experiments, understand root causes, and design solutions that balance speed and accuracy across the attribute lifecycle — defining KPIs, interpreting results, and making sound tradeoffs between precision and recall
• Build strong relationships and feedback loops across Product, Engineering, Design, Analytics, Operations, Machine Learning, Sales, Ads, Search, Legal, Brand, and Support — communicating transparently to drive clarity, commitment, and shared ownership of attribute quality
• Establish and continuously improve mechanisms for operational excellence — owning governance rituals, quality dashboards, postmortems, and platform investments that make attribute quality defensible at scale and compound over time

Requirements:

• 5+ years of product management experience, with meaningful time spent in catalog, data platforms, content systems, or ML/AI-adjacent products — including ownership of complex, cross-functional programs with measurable impact
• Proven ability to set strategy, prioritize ruthlessly, and deliver high-quality outcomes in fast-paced, dynamic environments — including building governance structures and quality systems, not just shipping features
• Demonstrated proficiency using data to drive decisions — defining KPIs, partnering with Analytics, interpreting experiments, and reasoning about precision/recall and ML model tradeoffs — with comfort navigating ambiguity to find clarity
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of building trust and alignment across high-stakeholder-count environments where no single team controls all the inputs
• Experience in marketplaces, logistics, e-commerce, or consumer technology, with familiarity balancing multi-sided incentives
• Hands-on experience with experimentation and analytics — including A/B testing, SQL, and dashboards — and the ability to partner deeply with Engineering and Data teams
• Experience with product attribute systems, catalog data, content management, or source prioritization at marketplace scale
• Familiarity with data pipelines, ML extraction workflows, or quality evaluation frameworks such as golden set audits, human-in-the-loop review, or precision/recall measurement
• History of translating commercial commitments into engineering requirements, or prior work at the intersection of legal/compliance and data products — including rights management, regulatory compliance attributes, or data sourcing constraints
• People leadership experience — direct or cross-functional — with a genuine passion for coaching, feedback, and fostering inclusive team culture