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
Join Instacart as a Senior Technical Recruiter and play a pivotal role in scaling our engineering teams to propel our core product initiatives. Your mission will be to identify, engage, and hire exceptional technical talent, making a direct impact on our ability to innovate and deliver services that resonate with millions of users. Your expertise will contribute to shaping the future of our engineering endeavors, ensuring we attract and retain the best minds in a fiercely competitive landscape.
ABOUT THE TEAM
The Technical Recruiting Team at Instacart is the backbone of our engineering growth, tasked with crafting the formidable teams responsible for our product's scalability and innovation. Your efforts will directly contribute to our mission of creating accessibility to the foods people love and enriching the time they can spend together. As a part of this team, you will help mold the foundation of our engineering capabilities and culture.
ABOUT THE JOB
- Buildingsourcing and recruitment strategies of diverse talent pools and match top-tier candidates with suitable roles.
- Develop and oversee programs that bolster our recruitment efforts, tailored to meet specific hiring objectives.
- Collaborate with recruiting leadership to monitor recruitment metrics, using insights to enhance hiring practices and decisions.
- Act as a strategic advisor to hiring managers, refining recruitment tactics and ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
- From extending offers to closing candidates, you will ensure a smooth, engaging, and effective hiring cycle.
- Build strong relationships with key stakeholders across various departments to align recruitment efforts with broader business objectives.
- Champion Instacart’s values, ensuring all candidates have a positive journey through our hiring process.
ABOUT YOU
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- 5 years in high-volume technical recruiting and a minimum of 2 years focusing on mid to senior level engineering roles.
- Proven experience in adapting and effectively influencing various stakeholders
- Strong understanding of recruiting strategies and dynamics in a competitive technical talent market.
- Exceptional ability to create and maintain robust partnerships with both internal teams and external candidates.
- Ability working both autonomously and within a team.
- Balance expertise with innovative recruitment solutions when it comes to improving our process, practices, and recruiting brand.
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Previous experience building technical teams in a startup setting
- Previous experience successfully driving underrepresented group hiring campaigns
- Experience in hiring for specialized roles in AI, Computer Vision, or Machine Learning, both at individual contributor and leadership levels.
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. Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia.
Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. 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 Canadian based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
CAN
$113,000—$125,000 CAD
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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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
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
