We're transforming the grocery industry
At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.
Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.
Instacart is a Flex First team
There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.
Overview
About the Role
As we continue growing, we are looking to add to our Brand Partnerships team within the Business Development group. We are hiring a Sales Executive to add to the Growth team of sellers serving 3-5 CPG partners to grow their business via our advertising and commercial solutions.
About the Team
The Instacart Brand Partnerships team is responsible for managing Instacart’s relationship with CPG brand partners. The team’s remit is to act as strategic consultants to accelerate the Ad revenue growth of CPG brands on Instacart. The team works closely with internal cross-functional teams from product, comms, marketing, insights, and analytics to drive value and excitement with our partners.
About the Job
- Deliver on team account sales and net margin targets
- Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders to expand account partnership, such as those in eCommerce, Agency, Media, Sales, Shopper, Marketing/Brand teams, and more
- Earn trusted partner status by understanding & growing their business, solution selling and influencing partnership expansion
- Create data driven sales collateral, case studies, and custom ‘stories’ to translate benefits of Instacart’s platform to CPG advertisers business needs
- Lead annual planning and budgeting process with Fortune 500 accounts
- Create data-backed proposals for up to multi-million dollar contracts for digital advertising
- Partner with Internal teams such as Account Management, Insights, Analytics, Measurement, Product and Engineering to shape the future of our monetization strategy
- Collaborate with Marketing and Yield teams to design and sell bespoke campaigns against key advertiser occasions
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- A solid understanding of the CPG environment either through direct sales and/or brand experience or similar exposure (ie. engaging with stakeholders across eCommerce, Media, Agency, Commercial/Sales and Marketing/Brand teams)
- Sales experience in fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
- Demonstrate skills and dependability of a top performer with an owner’s mindset
- Collaborative, adored team player
- Experience presenting to potential and current clients
- High attention to detail with strong execution skills
- Familiarity with the tools of the trade (eg. Microsoft Office, specifically Excel, Google for Business/Drive Suite, Salesforce, Zoom, Teams)
- Experience with large data sets and ability to extract business insights from analysis
- Client presence and persuasiveness
- Metrics orientation - can get up to speed on search/ad/sales/share metrics quickly
- Client service orientation - fast follow ups, general sense of urgency
- Thrives in ambiguous, startup environments and enjoys rapid change and learning
- Comfortable operating at both strategic and tactical levels, able to dive into data and make decisions and recommendations based on insights
- Customer-focused with the ability to identify consumer pain points and develop strategies to enhance the consumer experience
- Openness to travel (10-25%) to client and company meetings
Preferred Qualifications
- Consistent historic performance of achieving sales quotas, while building strong client relationships
- Knowledge of the digital media landscape including connected TV, programmatic and social platforms for offsite media campaigns
Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here.
Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. This role also includes a Sales Incentive Plan. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
WA
$113,000—$126,000 USD
OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI
$109,000—$121,000 USD
All other states
$98,000—$109,000 USD
CA, NY, CT, NJ
$118,000—$131,000 USD
What the Team is Saying
What We Do
Instacart, the leading grocery technology company in North America, works with grocers and retailers to transform how people shop. The company partners with more than 1,500 national, regional, and local retail banners to facilitate online shopping, delivery and pickup services from more than 85,000 stores across North America on the Instacart Marketplace. Instacart makes it possible for millions of people to get the groceries they need from the retailers they love, and for approximately 600,000 Instacart shoppers to earn by picking, packing and delivering orders on their own flexible schedule.
Why Work With Us
We provide the ingredients & inspiration for you to shape the career that nourishes you. Our team is building innovative solutions to never-before-solved business, technical, logistical, service, and creative challenges. If you're ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.
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No matter where you choose to work-from our offices, from home, or a mix of both- Instacart employees have the same opportunities to grow their career
