Innovation Manager

Posted 8 Days Ago
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Hiring Remotely in Birmingham, AL
In-Office or Remote
73K-176K Annually
Senior level
eCommerce
The Role
The Innovation Manager at Shipt accelerates new business opportunities through structured innovation processes, analytical rigor, and cross-functional teamwork. Responsibilities include leading experiments, developing business cases, and informing enterprise strategy.
Summary Generated by Built In
ImpactAs a Manager, Innovation at Shipt you will play a critical role in accelerating Shipt’s ability to identify, validate, and scale new business opportunities. This position exists to bring structure, creativity, and analytical rigor to Shipt’s innovation pipeline—ensuring that strategic opportunities are evaluated with clear hypotheses, disciplined experimentation, and data-driven insights.
Acting as a cross-functional catalyst, this role partners closely with senior leaders, product, engineering, marketing, operations, and other business teams to design and run experiments that de-risk decisions and unlock new growth. The Manager, Innovation leads the end-to-end innovation process—from opportunity discovery through validated concepts—and influences enterprise-level strategy by informing which ideas move forward, evolve, or sunset.
In this role you will lead analytical work streams, including business/value cases, conducting financial modeling and creating strategic frameworks to evaluate opportunities. You will design and run experiments and build reports and data visualizations to present findings. You will also support key executive-level operations, including strategy updates, cross-functional initiatives, and innovation-related strategic planning cycles.

What You’ll Need to Be Successful
  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field required; advanced degree preferred.

  • Experience with SQL and data visualization

  • 5+ years of practical experience, including strategic operations, innovation, management consulting, retail, supply chain, or other relevant industry roles.

  • Demonstrated experience developing business/value cases and conducting financial forecasting.

  • Proven success leading cross-functional teams through influence to develop and execute new capabilities.

Skills & Education

This list includes key skills used in this job but is not inclusive of all skills needed for the role. Please see any required education below.

Data Analysis, Data Visualization, Project Management


Work Arrangement

Shipt considers candidates located near a Shipt office or workspace in Birmingham, San Francisco, or Minneapolis to be hybrid, which means that they have the flexibility to work from home (with leader approval) or at a Shipt office in order to facilitate the ability to innovate, collaborate, and spark team connections. In-office expectations will vary by role and leader.  Certain roles may require in-office presence on a full-time basis. Please work with your recruiter to learn more about the classification of this role.

About Shipt

Shipt is a retail tech company that connects people to reliable, high-quality delivery with a personal touch. Shipt connects customers to the things they want from the stores they love, retail businesses to more satisfied customers, and workers to new earning opportunities.

At Shipt, we aim to put our team first to boost a sense of belonging, spark opportunities for growth, provide unique benefits and commit to giving back to our communities in ways that make life better, both personally and professionally. We understand that our service, our culture, and our connection to our communities are only made better by every single person who shows up to work here every day.  Learn More.

Shipt is an independently operated, wholly owned subsidiary of Target Corporation and available in more than 5,000 U.S. cities. Shipt was founded and is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. For more information, please visit Shipt’s company site at Shipt.com.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, religion or religious belief, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, military or veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection if you need a reasonable accommodation. If you need assistance filling out a job application, please complete this form


Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Employees (and eligible family members) are covered by medical, dental, vision and more.  Employees may enroll in our company’s 401k plan. Employees will also be eligible to receive discretionary vacation for exempt team members, paid holidays throughout the calendar year and paid sick leave.  Other compensation includes eligibility for an annual bonus and the potential for restricted stock units based on role.

Pay range:

Metro Areas of Boston, District of Columbia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and New York City: 

$88,000-$176,000

All other locations:

$73,000-$147,000

Please note that the salary range above is a guideline, and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies, and work location.

Top Skills

Data Visualization
SQL
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The Company
HQ: Birmingham, AL
1,487 Employees
Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

Shipt is a retail tech company that connects people to reliable, high-quality delivery with a personal touch. Through the power of technology, Shipt connects customers to the things they want from the stores they love, workers to new earning opportunities, and retail businesses to more satisfied customers. Headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, Shipt brings people the flexible solutions they need with the above-and-beyond service they expect. Shipt is an independently operated subsidiary of Target Corp. and available in more than 5,000 U.S. cities. For more information, please visit Shipt's Newsroom.

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