Senior Yield Analyst
We're transforming the grocery industry
Instacart is the North American leader in online grocery and one of the fastest-growing companies in e-commerce. Since 2012, we’ve been working towards creating a world where everyone has access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together.
Groceries delivered to your door in as little as an hour. It seems simple, right? Well, it’s more complex than that. From re-routing deliveries during snowstorms, to connecting customers with coupons and deals for their favorite brands, to updating over half a billion grocery data lines every night...our efforts bring Instacart closer to being the operating system for the grocery industry.
OVERVIEW
At Instacart we solve for the customer. That extends beyond the hundreds of thousands of consumers we deliver groceries to and includes many leading and emerging consumer packaged goods (CPG) advertisers that want to shape how consumers perceive, shop, and stay loyal to their brands. Instacart’s Brand Partnerships team is focused on serving these clients through our native advertising platform.
We are hiring a Senior Yield Analyst who will support the Revenue Management & Strategy team in maximizing yield on Instacart’s auction-based products. This individual will conduct analysis to make tradeoffs between price and sell through in one of the fastest moving categories in the consumer space: groceries. This role will focus on developing insights and turning them into action, driving complex analysis and communicating those learnings cross-functionally. This individual will drive tangible impact on the Instacart Advertising business’ financial performance through these efforts.
ABOUT THE JOB
- Monitor overall site monetization and sell through by product and page type
- Conduct detailed analysis to identify and quantify new revenue opportunities
- Based on analysis, develop recommendations around adjustments to floor prices, categories where increased auction density would have an outsized revenue impact, and other revenue optimization tactics
- Communicate recommendations cross-functionally to partners in Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Sales
ABOUT YOU
- 5+ years of experience in a relevant field
- Experience in digital advertising yield management
- Ability to deep dive into data, identify and quantify opportunities, and design sustainable improvements and solutions. Proficient in advanced Excel; SQL a plus
- Ability to interpret large data sets and extract insights in order to solve business problems
- Strong written & verbal communication
- Excellent attention to detail, follow-through, and resourcefulness
- Ability to work cross-functionally with many teams and multi-tasks with a sense of urgency
- An interest in working in a fast-growing, fast-paced environment with changing responsibilities, and a willingness to lend a helping hand wherever it’s needed
- Experience with Tableau preferred
- Programmatic experience preferred
- Experience with Consumer Packaged Goods advertisers preferred
Accommodations & Accessibility
At Instacart, we strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates. If you need assistance submitting an application through our career site due to a disability, please submit an Accommodations Request Form and someone from our team will reach out soon to see how we may be able to assist.