Manager, Product Operations - Product Specialists
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
As a Manager on the Product Operations team, you will lead Product Specialists and Senior Product Specialists responsible for monitoring the health of Instacart products by triaging bug reports, managing incidents, identifying and escalating issues ahead of launch, and working closely with other members of Product Operations, Care and Engineering to help support product launches and advocate for the customer experience. You will be responsible for coaching and developing your team, driving feedback loops between Care and Engineering, and creating processes and establishing best practices that allow us to meet our goals and scale efficiently. You will also apply an agile approach to continuously improve how your team works.
ABOUT THE JOB
- Set goals and SLAs, prioritize high-impact initiatives and lead a team of Product Specialists and Senior Product Specialists supporting our Instacart App, Shopper & Fulfillment, Retailers and Ads spaces
- Leverage data to track and regularly monitor progress on success measures and goals, and identify opportunities for improvement
- Analyze bug reports to understand trends and regressions, and develop action plans that allow us to diagnose, escalate and resolve issues quickly
- Actively monitor work in process to meet our SLA’s, and ensure we take any operational steps necessary to ensure we are meeting our goals
- Set performance expectations for your team, and motivate and coach them to meet those expectations. Provide regular and cadenced updates on performance relative to goals and expectations
- Develop operational playbooks, best practices and training to guide Product Specialists’ work, particularly in regards to bug investigation / triage and incident management
- Establish, drive and continuously improve pre and post-launch product quality processes to ensure we prevent issues that might impact customers ahead of release, and quickly correct any issues post-release
- Effectively present insights and influence outcomes with key stakeholders at all levels to support meaningful impact to Instacart’s business and the customer experience (e.g., Engineering, Product, Operations, Care Leadership, and other cross-functional teams)
- Develop relationships with and maintain regular communications with key stakeholders throughout the organization, with a particular focus on Engineering, Product and Care
- Build a culture of trust, collaboration and commitment to excellence
- Be prepared to directly manage large projects and coordinate across stakeholders as needed to ensure the right resourcing, execution and communications are in place to deliver results
ABOUT YOU
- BA/BS degree with 6+ years of product operations, technical support / product support, quality assurance/management, or other operations roles; advanced degree or six sigma certification strongly preferred
- 3+ years of direct people management experience in a fast-paced, agile environment
- 2+ years of cross-functional project management and leadership experience, ideally in a consumer technology
- Ability to leverage data to inform and support critical decisions with 2+ years of experience of SQL and querying skills (experience working in and with Customer Support data is a plus)
- Excellent communication and presentation skills; a track record of successful engagement of both internal and external stakeholders
- Previous experience working with and impacting user experience
- Demonstrated ability to effectively identify, prioritize, and handle multiple work streams simultaneously in a dynamic and rapidly-changing environment
- Ability to foster collaboration and facilitate teamwork
- Highly motivated self-starter with a desire to grow and learn
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Accommodations & Accessibility
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