Senior Product Manager owning Instacart’s Carrot Ads platform for retailers and API-integrated partners.
Driving publisher infrastructure, advertising expansion, partner growth, and cross-functional roadmap strategy.
Responsibilities
Serve as the primary product point of contact for Carrot Ads’ largest and most complex API-integrated partners, including Uber Eats, Thrive Market, and Hy-Vee
Monitor partner ad business performance and needs, consult on product requests and escalations, attend business reviews, and drive partner-specific product improvements
Own publisher-facing infrastructure and features, including API architecture and documentation, SFPro integrations, retailer-facing ad-serving controls, ad-serving quality, latency, reliability, data flows, reporting infrastructure, billing, and revenue-share systems
Drive strategic expansion of Carrot Ads into new areas such as in-store and B2B, and identify growth opportunities in new partner segments and verticals
Lead cross-functional collaboration across Measurement, Ads Quality, Formats, Storefront, Strategy & Planning, Product Marketing, and Commercial Enablement teams
Take on increasing strategic ownership by leading cross-partner roadmap prioritization, representing Carrot Ads in leadership forums, and eventually serving as senior PM lead for the overall program
Requirements
5+ years of product management experience owning complex, cross-functional product areas independently
Experience building or owning B2B platform products
Strong technical acumen and comfort working directly with engineering on API design, data pipelines, serving infrastructure, or similar
Experience managing external partner or customer relationships in a product role
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with ability to synthesize complex technical and business context for engineering teams and executive audiences
Experience in ad tech, retail media, or marketplace advertising, particularly on the supply/publisher side (preferred)
Familiarity with programmatic advertising concepts including auction mechanics, ad serving, attribution, billing/revenue share, and reporting infrastructure (preferred)
Experience with third-party business infrastructure platforms such as white-label ad platforms, marketplace APIs, or embedded commerce products (preferred)
Experience driving strategic expansion into new business verticals or partner segments (preferred)
Ability to ship in ambiguous, high-stakes environments with evolving product scope, technical constraints, and business requirements (preferred)
Benefits
Flexible choice of work location, including home, office, or coffee shop
Regular in-person events
Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits
New hire equity grant
Annual refresh grants
Benefits offerings described in Instacart’s benefits materials
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