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Sales Associate - San Francisco/Los Angeles
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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
The Instacart Brand Partnerships team is at the center of one of the most exciting transformations happening in retail media today. We work with brands across the CPG landscape to help them win at the digital shelf — connecting them to millions of shoppers actively purchasing groceries and everyday essentials online. The Emerging team moves fast, uses data to storytell, and genuinely believes that the brands we work with are building the future of how people discover and buy products.
About the Team
The challenger brands we work with are scrappy, ambitious, and already excited about what Instacart can do for them. We're growing this segment rapidly, and this role sits right at the heart of that growth. In this role, you'll build and nurture relationships with a portfolio of emerging brands — both those actively investing in the platform and those with untapped potential waiting to be unlocked. You're not just managing accounts; you're acting as a trusted advisor, owning the full advertising relationship and helping brands connect the dots between their growth goals and what Instacart's ecosystem can deliver.
About the Job
- Manage and grow a book of emerging brands, driving revenue through upsells, renewals, and new media adoption
- Sell across the full Instacart Ads ecosystem — helping brands think holistically about sponsored, display, video, and off-platform solutions
- Build data driven business reviews and storytelling that connects campaign performance to brand growth goals
- Educate brands on the e-commerce landscape and how to think about Instacart as a core retail media channel
- Maintain a high-velocity sales cadence — calls, emails, QBRs — in a fast-paced, metrics-driven environment
- Partner cross-functionally with Account Management, Product, and Marketing to deliver an exceptional partner experience
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- 2-4 years of experience in digital media sales, media buying or CPG advertising. Preferably in a previous quota carrying sales role.
- Strong data driven storytelling skills, you can synthesize campaign metrics into clear, compelling narratives for brand partners
- A consultative sales approach with a track record of growing accounts through education and solution-selling
- Familiarity with the broader e-commerce landscape and retail media ecosystem (experience at a retailer, DSP, or CPG brand is a plus)
- Comfort with a high-activity sales environment — you're organized, responsive, and know how to prioritize
- Experience with tools like Salesforce, Google Suite, and Excel/Sheets; familiarity with ad platforms and AI tools is a bonus
- Genuine curiosity about where retail media is headed and how brands can win in it
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. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Instacart
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
The Instacart Brand Partnerships team is at the center of one of the most exciting transformations happening in retail media today. We work with brands across the CPG landscape to help them win at the digital shelf — connecting them to millions of shoppers actively purchasing groceries and everyday essentials online. The Emerging team moves fast, uses data to storytell, and genuinely believes that the brands we work with are building the future of how people discover and buy products.
About the Team
The challenger brands we work with are scrappy, ambitious, and already excited about what Instacart can do for them. We're growing this segment rapidly, and this role sits right at the heart of that growth. In this role, you'll build and nurture relationships with a portfolio of emerging brands — both those actively investing in the platform and those with untapped potential waiting to be unlocked. You're not just managing accounts; you're acting as a trusted advisor, owning the full advertising relationship and helping brands connect the dots between their growth goals and what Instacart's ecosystem can deliver.
About the Job
- Manage and grow a book of emerging brands, driving revenue through upsells, renewals, and new media adoption
- Sell across the full Instacart Ads ecosystem — helping brands think holistically about sponsored, display, video, and off-platform solutions
- Build data driven business reviews and storytelling that connects campaign performance to brand growth goals
- Educate brands on the e-commerce landscape and how to think about Instacart as a core retail media channel
- Maintain a high-velocity sales cadence — calls, emails, QBRs — in a fast-paced, metrics-driven environment
- Partner cross-functionally with Account Management, Product, and Marketing to deliver an exceptional partner experience
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- 2-4 years of experience in digital media sales, media buying or CPG advertising. Preferably in a previous quota carrying sales role.
- Strong data driven storytelling skills, you can synthesize campaign metrics into clear, compelling narratives for brand partners
- A consultative sales approach with a track record of growing accounts through education and solution-selling
- Familiarity with the broader e-commerce landscape and retail media ecosystem (experience at a retailer, DSP, or CPG brand is a plus)
- Comfort with a high-activity sales environment — you're organized, responsive, and know how to prioritize
- Experience with tools like Salesforce, Google Suite, and Excel/Sheets; familiarity with ad platforms and AI tools is a bonus
- Genuine curiosity about where retail media is headed and how brands can win in it
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. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Instacart
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
The Instacart Brand Partnerships team is at the center of one of the most exciting transformations happening in retail media today. We work with brands across the CPG landscape to help them win at the digital shelf — connecting them to millions of shoppers actively purchasing groceries and everyday essentials online. The Emerging team moves fast, uses data to storytell, and genuinely believes that the brands we work with are building the future of how people discover and buy products.
About the Team
The challenger brands we work with are scrappy, ambitious, and already excited about what Instacart can do for them. We're growing this segment rapidly, and this role sits right at the heart of that growth. In this role, you'll build and nurture relationships with a portfolio of emerging brands — both those actively investing in the platform and those with untapped potential waiting to be unlocked. You're not just managing accounts; you're acting as a trusted advisor, owning the full advertising relationship and helping brands connect the dots between their growth goals and what Instacart's ecosystem can deliver.
About the Job
- Manage and grow a book of emerging brands, driving revenue through upsells, renewals, and new media adoption
- Sell across the full Instacart Ads ecosystem — helping brands think holistically about sponsored, display, video, and off-platform solutions
- Build data driven business reviews and storytelling that connects campaign performance to brand growth goals
- Educate brands on the e-commerce landscape and how to think about Instacart as a core retail media channel
- Maintain a high-velocity sales cadence — calls, emails, QBRs — in a fast-paced, metrics-driven environment
- Partner cross-functionally with Account Management, Product, and Marketing to deliver an exceptional partner experience
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- 2-4 years of experience in digital media sales, media buying or CPG advertising. Preferably in a previous quota carrying sales role.
- Strong data driven storytelling skills, you can synthesize campaign metrics into clear, compelling narratives for brand partners
- A consultative sales approach with a track record of growing accounts through education and solution-selling
- Familiarity with the broader e-commerce landscape and retail media ecosystem (experience at a retailer, DSP, or CPG brand is a plus)
- Comfort with a high-activity sales environment — you're organized, responsive, and know how to prioritize
- Experience with tools like Salesforce, Google Suite, and Excel/Sheets; familiarity with ad platforms and AI tools is a bonus
- Genuine curiosity about where retail media is headed and how brands can win in it
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. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Instacart
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
Instacart’s Canada Brand Partnerships team helps Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) partners grow on our retail media platform by connecting their brands with high-intent shoppers. We’re hiring an Account Manager to join our Canada Account Management group in Toronto (open to remote across Canada) to own and grow a strategic book of CPG advertisers.
In this role, you will partner closely with Account Executives, Ads Operations, Measurement, and Product to maximize advertiser value, deliver measurable performance, and scale impactful programs. You’ll work on complex, data-rich problems at the intersection of e-commerce and advertising, collaborate with stakeholders across Instacart and our retailer network, and help shape how leading CPGs win on Instacart.
We’re operating in a fast-growing environment with evolving processes and ambitious goals. If you thrive in a high-velocity setting, enjoy rolling up your sleeves, and care deeply about driving results for customers and partners, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact.
About the Role
- Own a portfolio of Canadian CPG advertisers, serving as the primary point of contact to drive growth, retention, and long-term partnership value.
- Plan, launch, and optimize retail media campaigns across Instacart ad products; analyze performance to deliver data-backed recommendations that improve ROAS, incrementality, and category share.
- Identify and execute upsell and cross-sell opportunities, build business cases, and partner with Account Executives on renewals, expansions, and joint business planning.
- Lead regular performance reviews and Quarterly Business Reviews with senior client stakeholders, translating complex data into clear narratives and actionable roadmaps.
- Forecast pipeline and revenue, manage pacing and budgets, and ensure operational excellence in collaboration with Ads Operations, Measurement, and Finance.
- Advocate for client needs with Product and Engineering by synthesizing feedback and helping pilot new features that improve advertiser outcomes at scale.
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in account management or client success within digital advertising, retail media, or e-commerce performance marketing.
- Proven track record managing a portfolio of advertisers and meeting or exceeding revenue, retention, and performance goals.
- Hands-on experience running end-to-end campaigns (planning, trafficking coordination, optimization, reporting) and leading QBRs or executive readouts.
- Proficiency with Excel/Google Sheets (pivot tables, lookups) and comfort interpreting large data sets to create clear, actionable insights.
- Effective communicator with experience influencing senior client stakeholders and collaborating cross-functionally with sales, operations, and analytics teams.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Analytics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with CPG advertisers and familiarity with retail media networks (e.g., Instacart Ads, Amazon Ads, Walmart Connect).
- Knowledge of performance marketing metrics (ROAS, CPA, incrementality) and experimentation methodologies.
- Exposure to data visualization or BI tools (e.g., Looker, Tableau) and comfort building client-facing dashboards.
- Working knowledge of SQL for exploratory analysis and performance deep dives.
- Bilingual English/French and experience supporting Canadian national and regional CPG stakeholders.
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, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.
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.
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Senior Director, Media Analytics, Commercial Strategy & Acceleration
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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
The Commercial Strategy & Acceleration (CSX) team empowers Instacart’s commercial organizations with domain expertise to drive innovation, cohesive strategy, and agile execution at scale—catalyzing our partners’ success across retailers, brands, and agencies.
We are seeking a Senior Director of Media Analytics to lead a high-impact organization of approximately 30 analytics professionals focused on Instacart Ads. You will set the vision, strategy, and operating model for how measurement, experimentation, and insights drive advertiser outcomes and unlock incremental investment. In close partnership with Brand Partnerships, Ads R&D, Product, Data Science, and our CPG customers—as well as key industry bodies—you will deliver rigorous, trusted analytics that guide decisions for some of the world’s largest brands.
This role is ideal for a hands-on leader who thrives in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment and enjoys working cross-functionally to solve complex problems at scale. New York is preferred, with flexibility for qualified candidates across the U.S.; periodic travel to New York City, client offices, and industry events is expected.
About the Job
- Own the end-to-end media analytics strategy and roadmap for Instacart Ads, establishing trusted measurement standards that quantify incrementality, optimize performance, and inform advertiser investment decisions.
- Lead, develop, and scale a ~30-person team (including managers and senior ICs) across client analytics, measurement science, experimentation, and commercialization; attract top talent and foster an inclusive, high-performing culture.
- Build and standardize frameworks for causal inference, geo and audience experiments, MMM, attribution, creative effectiveness, and audience insights; partner with Ads R&D and Data Science to productionize models and reporting at scale.
- Collaborate with Brand Partnerships and Sales to deliver compelling, client-ready narratives that translate complex analytics into clear business impact, driving increased advertiser investment.
- Establish data governance, quality, and privacy-safe measurement practices; represent Instacart with industry bodies to advance retail media standards and third-party interoperability.
- Define and manage OKRs, operating cadences, resourcing, and prioritization across a portfolio of analytics initiatives, focusing the team on the highest-impact work.
- Lead third‑party measurement partnerships (e.g., MMM providers, clean rooms) and integrate them with Instacart’s first‑party capabilities to deliver holistic, actionable insights.
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- 12+ years of experience in media analytics, marketing science, or ad measurement within digital advertising or retail media.
- 7+ years leading analytics teams of 15+ (including managers of managers), with a track record of hiring, developing, and retaining diverse, high-performing talent.
- Expertise in incrementality testing and causal inference, experimental design, MMM, and attribution, with programs deployed at enterprise scale.
- Advanced SQL and proficiency in Python or R; demonstrated ability to review methodologies, validate models, and uphold analytic rigor.
- Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering) and proven experience influencing C‑suite stakeholders at large advertisers (e.g., CPGs) to drive investment decisions.
Preferred Qualifications
- Graduate degree (MS, MBA, or PhD) in statistics, econometrics, data science, or a related quantitative discipline.
- Experience at a retail media network, major ad platform, or enterprise CPG/agency leading large-scale analytics and measurement programs.
- Hands-on experience with privacy-safe measurement and clean rooms (e.g., AWS Clean Rooms, Snowflake, Databricks, LiveRamp Safe Haven) and identity solutions.
- Proven success evaluating and integrating third-party MMM/attribution providers (e.g., Analytic Partners, Nielsen, Neustar) and reconciling with first-party signals.
- Engagement with industry bodies (e.g., IAB, ARF, MMA) and recognized thought leadership through standards work, publications, or conference speaking.
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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, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.
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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Instacart
Retention Sales Development Representative II
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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
The Sales Development Representative (SDR) will play a vital role in managing and growing the Scaled Cohort at Instacart. This position is responsible for increasing the active advertiser rate and driving incremental revenue growth by developing full-funnel media plans based on client objectives, including budget, bid, and campaign optimization recommendations. As an SDR, you will be the main point of contact for brands within your assigned book of business, owning all aspects of the advertising relationship.
About the Team
The Retention Sales Development Representative (rSDR) team exists to build relationships with Emerging-Scaled advertisers post activation. Through these relationships, rSDRs help Emerging-Scaled advertisers to optimize campaigns, prevent churn, prioritize growth and deliver on long term revenue.
About the Job
- Developing and maintaining strong relationships with advertisers, managing full end‑to‑end sales cycle, and client relationship post launch
- Conducting a high volume of daily activities, including outbound calls, emails, and social selling in a fast-paced transactional environment.
- Creating sales collateral, case studies, and custom 'stories' to effectively communicate the benefits of Instacart's platform to CPG advertisers.
- Meeting and exceeding key performance indicators (KPIs), such as retention rate, revenue generated, and live advertiser percentage.
- Utilizing SFDC/Sales engagement tools to prioritize leads and engage brands through the use of cadences and dialing.
- Ensuring accurate contact mapping within the book of business and tracking contact movement updates.
- Engaging active advertisers within your book to drive increased investments, leveraging your industry expertise and knowledge of the brands' businesses.
- Identifying opportunities to standardize materials and processes to provide high-quality support at scale.
- Delivering an excellent customer experience through strong project management skills, anticipating and resolving bottlenecks, managing multiple schedules, and maintaining a high standard of execution.
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- 1+ years of experience in a sales or business development role, preferably in the advertising and/or CPG industry.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to build rapport and establish lasting relationships.
- Proven track record of meeting or exceeding sales targets and KPIs.
- Excellent organizational and project management skills.
- Detail-oriented with a focus on accuracy and quality.
- Ability to adapt to a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong advertising industry knowledge and understanding of CPG advertising is a plus.
- Familiarity with CRM software (e.g., Salesforce) and sales engagement tools.
- Familiarity with leveraging AI to assist in sales processes and maximize efficiency.
- Experience working with and prioritizing a large book of business.
#LI-Remote
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. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Instacart
Activation Sales Development Representative I
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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 our fast growth, we are looking to add to our Sales Development Representative team within the Business Development group. We are hiring a class of Sales Development Representatives to join our Brand Partnerships team, generating new business opportunities for the company by identifying, contacting, and qualifying potential customers. In this role you will be managing leads through the sales pipeline by setting meetings, following up on leads, and tracking progress towards meeting sales goals. We are looking for someone who has excellent communication skills, a strong work ethic, and a proven track record of success in sales. If you are a self-motivated individual with a passion for sales, we encourage you to apply.
About the Team - The Instacart Brand Partnerships Sales Development Representative (SDR) team exists to build relationships with Emerging-Scaled advertisers pre-activation. Through these relationships, SDRs help Emerging-Scaled advertisers to set up and launch successful ads campaigns.
About the Job
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with advertisers, managing all aspects of the sales cycle.
- Conduct a high volume of daily activities, including outbound calls, emails, and social selling in a fast-paced transactional environment.
- Create sales collateral, case studies, and custom 'stories' to effectively communicate the benefits of Instacart's platform to CPG advertisers.
- Meet and exceed key performance indicators (KPIs), such as retention rate, revenue generated, and live advertiser percentage.
- Utilize SFDC/Sales engagement tools to prioritize leads and engage brands through the use of cadences and dialing.
- Ensure accurate contact mapping within the book of business and track contact movement updates.
- Engage active advertisers within your book to drive increased investments, leveraging your industry expertise and knowledge of the brands' businesses.
- Identify opportunities to standardize materials and processes to provide high-quality support at scale.
- Deliver an excellent customer experience through strong project management skills, anticipating and resolving bottlenecks, managing multiple schedules, and maintaining a high standard of execution.
- Collaborate with product teams to prioritize product improvements that assist in scaling ad products for small to medium-sized businesses.
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- Previous experience in a sales or business development role, preferably in the advertising industry.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to build rapport and establish lasting relationships.
- Proven track record of meeting or exceeding sales targets and KPIs.
- Excellent organizational and project management skills.
- Detail-oriented with a focus on accuracy and quality.
- Ability to adapt to a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong advertising industry knowledge and understanding of CPG advertising is a plus.
- Familiarity with CRM software (e.g., Salesforce) and sales engagement tools.
#LI-Remote
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. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Instacart
Retailer Ads Sales Executive, Mid-Market Ads
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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
Instacart Ads is building the operating system for retail media, helping our retailer partners unlock incremental value through innovative advertising solutions. We’re growing a net-new Retailer Ad Sales function within our Midmarket Ad Sales team and are looking for a results-driven Ad Sales Executive to expand advertising partnerships across our existing retailer network.
This role is a high-impact individual contributor opportunity where you’ll collaborate closely with Business Development, Product, Marketing, Legal, Yield, Policy, and Off-Platform teams to bring new retailer-dedicated ad units to market and drive meaningful, measurable revenue. In Q4 alone, this new function generated over $2.5M, and we’re targeting 100% year-over-year growth. You’ll join a nimble group within a Midmarket Sales organization of approximately 45 teammates; your immediate team is growing from 8 to 11, and you will be 1 of 2 dedicated retailer ad sellers shaping how Instacart partners with retailers at scale.
If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, enjoy rolling up your sleeves to build from 0 to 1, and want to help retailers achieve their goals with Instacart’s audience and ad products, this role offers the ownership and cross-functional collaboration to make a visible impact.
About the Role
- Own the full sales cycle for retailer advertising partnerships within Instacart’s existing retailer network, from prospecting and pipeline development through scoping, contracting, launch, optimization, renewal, and expansion.
- Identify, position, and sell retailer-dedicated ad units and cross-channel solutions (on-site and off-site), partnering with Product, Marketing, and Yield to craft packages that map to retailer objectives and deliver measurable ROI.
- Work hand-in-hand with the Business Development retailer team to align account strategies, convert platform relationships into advertising revenue, and create cohesive joint plans for growth.
- Translate performance data into clear narratives, proposals, and QBRs; set targets, monitor KPIs, and drive optimizations that lead to renewal and upsell.
- Build repeatable playbooks, pricing guardrails, and best practices that support scale across Midmarket Ads and enable future teammates to execute with quality and speed.
- Navigate cross-functional processes with Legal, Policy, Finance, and Off-Platform to structure terms, ensure compliance, and accelerate deal velocity in a dynamic, rapidly evolving environment.
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- 5–7+ years of experience in digital advertising sales, account management, or business development, with a focus on retail, grocery, or the broader retail ecosystem.
- Hands-on experience with retail media networks, including on-site media, off-site activation, audience targeting, and performance measurement.
- Proven track record owning end-to-end sales cycles and growing high-value advertising partnerships with individual contract values between $100k and $2M.
- Experience presenting complex advertising solutions to senior stakeholders and negotiating commercial terms through close.
- Analytical and data-driven approach; proficiency using performance data to inform optimization and renewal strategies.
- Demonstrated cross-functional collaboration with teams such as Business Development, Product, and Marketing to package and deliver solutions.
- Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, communications, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Existing relationships or ad sales experience with regional and national retailers (e.g., grocers, mass merchandisers, specialty retailers).
- Expertise in audience segmentation and the ability to tailor solutions to retailer goals and target customers.
- Experience launching new ad formats or implementing innovative advertising solutions in a retail environment.
- Familiarity with retail attribution models and campaign metrics (e.g., ROAS, incrementality, basket size, repeat rate), and comfort interpreting campaign reporting.
- Experience using CRM tools (e.g., Salesforce) for pipeline management and forecasting.
- Willingness to travel as needed (up to 10%–25%) for client meetings and cross-functional collaboration.
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. 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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Instacart
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
As we continue our fast growth, we are looking to hire a Sr. Sales Executive to join our Mid-Market Brand Partnerships team. We’re looking for an experienced and driven seller to develop and grow partnerships with consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands. We work with companies of all sizes, whether established household names or new emerging brands - we help our partners reach new customers and drive sales across the 1,500+ retail banners available on Instacart.
The team’s remit is to act as strategic consultants to accelerate the 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 Role
- Develop and maintain relationships with advertisers, managing all aspects of the sales cycle for a book of business between 5-10 accounts.
- Identify and build relationships with executive contacts within your clients. Demonstrate strong executive presence with a proven ability to establish and grow C-level client relationships
- Maintain a high daily volume of activity including outbound calls, emails, and social selling.
- Lead monthly, quarterly, annual planning and budgeting process with various brands and build data-driven narratives to support ad revenue growth.
- Experience forecasting a book of business for quarterly & annualized growth.
- Proven history of exceeding sales goals/quota as an individual contributor.
- Generate weekly campaign reports and optimization recommendations, as well as monthly / quarterly reviews.
- Leverage prior experience in the intersection of CPG, Digital & Sales to drive meaningful long-term growth across Instacart’s ad suite.
- Travel required as needed for team meetings, customer visits, and industry events.
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in a fast-paced sales environment
- 2+ years of experience in retail media, digital advertising and/or managing CPG clients
- Strong time-management skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Creative problem-solver
- Team-player with a positive can-do attitude
- High attention to detail and strong execution skills
- Familiarity with tools of the trade (eg. Microsoft Office, specifically Excel, Google Drive)
- Experience with large data sets and ability to extract business insights from analysis
Preferred Qualifications
- Digital advertising experience, particularly in paid search, display, or retail media
- Experience with Tableau & Salesforce
- Previous experience as a top-performing individual contributor
- Experience in CPG, eCommerce, and/or marketplace environments
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. 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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Instacart
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
Instacart is expanding rapidly, and we’re seeking a Sales Planner to join our Off‑Platform Sales team. This hire will assist in delivering customer‑centric solutions rooted in Instacart 1P data, partnering with Off‑Platform and Brand Partnership sales teams to win RFPs through architecting bespoke solutions, own delivery from launch through wrap, and identify & pitch incremental investment opportunities along the way. This role blends strategic planning with operational excellence to drive strong outcomes for our off‑platform advertisers.
About the Role
Sales Strategy and Planning
- Proactively identify, pitch, and secure incremental revenue opportunities on assigned portfolio
- Translate RFP’s into tailored media solutions rooted in Instacart’s Off-Platform solutions
- Assist in audience planning throughout deal cycle
- Build proposals and media plans, close deals, and execute IOs
- Assist in crafting compelling narratives that differentiate Instacart & ultimately lead to off-platform activations via our 1P data
- Identity & assist in pitching net-new whitespace revenue opportunities to help our advertising achieve their intended outcomes
Campaign Execution and Performance
- Drive incremental revenue through media buyer influence within current, upsell, and expansion opportunities.Use data and strategic partner skills to identify client investment whitespace gaps and plans that increase our Off-Platform adoption and retention
- Assist in launch-to-wrap execution: aligning on success metrics ahead of launch, ensuring pacing, optimizations as well as post-campaign reporting
- Coordinate cross‑functionally (Ad Ops, Analytics, Product, Creative, Legal, Finance) to unblock hurdles and activate with excellence
- Treat every live campaign as a sales opportunity — consistently look for upsell and renewal conversations, not just delivery management
About You
- 4+ years in media or sales planning at an agency, publisher, or platform; strong grasp of programmatic, social, and video
- Demonstrated interest in sales - comfortable with outreach, pitching, and closing. Motivated by hitting & exceeding revenue targets.
- Excellent time management, organization, and communication skills
- Creative problem solver who thrives amid ambiguity
- Ability to tell a compelling story through data
- A self-starter with hunger to achieve goals
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. 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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Instacart
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
As Instacart continues its rapid expansion, we are looking to add an additional Sales Executive. Sales Executives will be responsible for managing a book of business of some of our fastest growing brands. Sales Executives act as the main point of contact for their assigned brands and own all aspects of the advertising relationship.
This 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 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 Role
- Developing and maintaining relationships with advertisers, managing all aspects of the sales cycle for a book of business between 5-10 accounts
- Selling with thought leadership & consultative sales skills across the prioritized client base
- Leading monthly, quarterly, and annual planning and budgeting process with Mid Market Brands
- Analyzing and applying business insights in a way that influences client's investment decisions
- Independently identifies and builds relationships with executive contacts within the client book of business, by expanding contact to new client teams & senior stakeholders
- Forecasting the allocated book of business for quarterly & annualized growth
- Maintaining a high daily volume of activity including outbound calls, emails, and social selling in a transactional environment
- Developing sales collateral, case studies, and custom ‘stories’ to translate the benefits of Instacart’s platform to CPG advertisers
- Generating weekly campaign reports and optimization recommendations, as well as monthly / quarterly reviews
- Growing your skills and having a meaningful impact on an important component to Instacart’s success and growth
- Leveraging prior experience or interest in the intersection of CPG, Digital & Sales to drive meaningful growth
- Travel to see brand partners in person at headquarters and relevant industry events
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- 3-5+ years of experience in a sales environment
- 1+ year of experience in digital advertising
- Experience in managing client relationships, and partnering to drive measurable growth
- Ability to work in a fast-moving environment and juggle multiple priorities and projects
- Comfortable analyzing and speaking to CPG and advertising insights and KPIs
- Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills
- Familiarity with tools of the trade (eg. Microsoft Office, specifically Excel, Google Drive)
- Experience with large data sets and ability to extract business insights from analysis (Experience in SQL, Tableau preferred)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working in sales at a retail media company with fast growing brands
- Consistent historic performance of achieving sales quotas, while building strong client relationships
- Understanding of both CPG and retail media media metrics to drive campaign performance
#LI-Remote
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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Instacart
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
The Advertiser Success Team is a collaborative, empowered and solution-oriented team focused on being customer obsessed with CPG advertisers. Under the Advertiser Success Team, the Campaign Management and Account Management teams create, manage, and grow ecommerce campaigns through sharing reporting and insights with advertisers. We are looking for an experienced Account Manager who can support and drive high valued performance results for Instacart’s ad products through optimizations and upsells while communicating the value of Instacart to partners.
About the Job
- Collaborate with the Sales Team to build trusted CPG relationships
- Serve as the main point of contact for all pre and post sale activities including media planning, campaign reporting, optimization and performance
- Create media plans matching partner goals and provide ad product offerings to partners
- Provide weekly reports to advertisers with sound optimizations to improve campaign performance and achieve advertisers’ KPI
- Lead CPG cadence calls to present campaign and category insights with a data driven approach; use data to tell stories to show impact of ad campaigns
- Present compelling category and advertiser specific business trends and insights
- Proactively pitch cross-sell and upsell opportunities to advertisers
- Be a partner advocate during pilots and internal cross functional feedback sessions
- Compile campaign wrap reports owing follow up and actionable takeaways
- Partner with cross functional teams and spearhead the creation of the Quarterly Business Review; present campaign insights to CPG advertisers with an analytical mindset
- Develop a deep understanding of Instacart’s evolving full funnel advertising suite and strategy
- Actively participates in gap to goal planning and manages quota over multiple business units
About You
- Undergraduate college degree required (BA/BS degree in business, advertising, commerce, digital marketing or related field is preferred)
- 3 + years of similar work experience
- Proven track record of building strong customer relationships
- Intermediate skills with Microsoft Excel, Google Drive (GMail, Docs, Sheets and Slides), Salesforce and Tableau. Mode is a plus
- Knowledge of paid search, display, account management, ad serving, CPG or e-commerce
- Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities and take initiative in a high paced environment
- Succeeds in an external facing role, confidently communicates with advertisers and key stakeholders
- High attention to detail, exceptional organizational skills and creative problem solver
- Comfortable analyzing data with the ability to interpret and tell a story in a client-facing role
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. 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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Instacart
Senior Director, Media Analytics, Commercial Strategy & Acceleration
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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
The Commercial Strategy & Acceleration (CSX) team empowers Instacart’s commercial organizations with domain expertise to drive innovation, cohesive strategy, and agile execution at scale—catalyzing our partners’ success across retailers, brands, and agencies.
We are seeking a Senior Director of Media Analytics to lead a high-impact organization of approximately 30 analytics professionals focused on Instacart Ads. You will set the vision, strategy, and operating model for how measurement, experimentation, and insights drive advertiser outcomes and unlock incremental investment. In close partnership with Brand Partnerships, Ads R&D, Product, Data Science, and our CPG customers—as well as key industry bodies—you will deliver rigorous, trusted analytics that guide decisions for some of the world’s largest brands.
This role is ideal for a hands-on leader who thrives in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment and enjoys working cross-functionally to solve complex problems at scale. New York is preferred, with flexibility for qualified candidates across the U.S.; periodic travel to New York City, client offices, and industry events is expected.
About the Job
- Own the end-to-end media analytics strategy and roadmap for Instacart Ads, establishing trusted measurement standards that quantify incrementality, optimize performance, and inform advertiser investment decisions.
- Lead, develop, and scale a ~30-person team (including managers and senior ICs) across client analytics, measurement science, experimentation, and commercialization; attract top talent and foster an inclusive, high-performing culture.
- Build and standardize frameworks for causal inference, geo and audience experiments, MMM, attribution, creative effectiveness, and audience insights; partner with Ads R&D and Data Science to productionize models and reporting at scale.
- Collaborate with Brand Partnerships and Sales to deliver compelling, client-ready narratives that translate complex analytics into clear business impact, driving increased advertiser investment.
- Establish data governance, quality, and privacy-safe measurement practices; represent Instacart with industry bodies to advance retail media standards and third-party interoperability.
- Define and manage OKRs, operating cadences, resourcing, and prioritization across a portfolio of analytics initiatives, focusing the team on the highest-impact work.
- Lead third‑party measurement partnerships (e.g., MMM providers, clean rooms) and integrate them with Instacart’s first‑party capabilities to deliver holistic, actionable insights.
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- 12+ years of experience in media analytics, marketing science, or ad measurement within digital advertising or retail media.
- 7+ years leading analytics teams of 15+ (including managers of managers), with a track record of hiring, developing, and retaining diverse, high-performing talent.
- Expertise in incrementality testing and causal inference, experimental design, MMM, and attribution, with programs deployed at enterprise scale.
- Advanced SQL and proficiency in Python or R; demonstrated ability to review methodologies, validate models, and uphold analytic rigor.
- Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering) and proven experience influencing C‑suite stakeholders at large advertisers (e.g., CPGs) to drive investment decisions.
Preferred Qualifications
- Graduate degree (MS, MBA, or PhD) in statistics, econometrics, data science, or a related quantitative discipline.
- Experience at a retail media network, major ad platform, or enterprise CPG/agency leading large-scale analytics and measurement programs.
- Hands-on experience with privacy-safe measurement and clean rooms (e.g., AWS Clean Rooms, Snowflake, Databricks, LiveRamp Safe Haven) and identity solutions.
- Proven success evaluating and integrating third-party MMM/attribution providers (e.g., Analytic Partners, Nielsen, Neustar) and reconciling with first-party signals.
- Engagement with industry bodies (e.g., IAB, ARF, MMA) and recognized thought leadership through standards work, publications, or conference speaking.
#LI-Remote
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. 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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Instacart
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:
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 core operating system for the grocery industry.
As Instacart continues its rapid expansion, we are looking to add a Lead, Sales Development to our Brand Partnerships team. The Lead, Sales Development will be responsible for leading a team of Activation SDRs as they prospect and activate new brands at Instacart. The Lead, Sales Development will coach their team on sales best practices, data analysis, and the CPG, advertising and eCommerce landscape, as well as work cross functionally to grow the business. The ideal candidate is entrepreneurial, can work in a fast-paced environment, and has sales leadership experience in advertising (paid search a plus), CPG, or eCommerce.
ABOUT THE JOB:
- Lead and develop a team of high-performing Activation SDRs to achieve quarterly activation targets
- Measure and track key business and industry trends
- Activation, Team Lead - actively joining calls, developing and maintaining strong relationships with advertisers, managing all aspects of the sales cycle.
- Conduct daily activities, including outbound calls, emails, and social selling in a fast-paced transactional environment.
- Improve our sales process, collateral, and prospecting capabilities to make your team more effective and efficient
- Partner with cross-functional teams to improve scalable processes to reach more brands faster
ABOUT YOU:
Minimum Qualifications:
- History of exceeding sales goals/quota
- Experience in a sales management environment and or 3-4 years experience in a sales or business development role, preferably in the advertising industry.
- History of developing early career professionals
- Creative problem-solver
Preferred Qualifications:
- Track record of excelling cross functionally and in a high growth climate
- Process and data driven with proven sales funnel optimization success
- Demonstrated success implementing activity metrics and effectively coaching cold outreach
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. 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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Instacart
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
Instacart is seeking an experienced and entrepreneurial Ad Sales Executive to join our growing Instacart Ads team. This role will be responsible for sourcing, building, and managing relationships with high-value, non-endemic advertising clients (i.e., advertisers whose products are not sold on Instacart). This is a unique opportunity to establish and scale a net-new revenue stream by partnering with advertisers across a variety of industries, including finance/payment providers, travel, entertainment, telecom, apparel, automotive, and others.
The ideal candidate will have strong sales acumen, an ability to thrive in ambiguity, and deep knowledge of the digital advertising landscape, including emerging ad units and retail media networks. The individual will own the full sales lifecycle, from prospecting new business opportunities to delivering pitches and performance presentations, all while building long-term partnerships to meet and exceed Instacart’s revenue targets.
In this highly visible role, you will partner cross-functionally across teams including legal, product, marketing, partnerships, and yield management to ensure seamless deal execution, secure approvals for new workstreams, and refine Instacart’s ad product roadmap to align with non-endemic client needs. Success in this role requires a proven track record of selling innovative advertising solutions, exceptional relationship management skills to engage senior decision-makers (including the C-suite), and a passion for creating ground-breaking opportunities in the digital advertising space.
About the Job:
- Identify, source, and establish relationships with non-endemic advertisers, introducing them to Instacart’s advertising solutions and uncovering opportunities to connect them with Instacart’s customer segments.
- Develop a pipeline of high-potential advertising prospects across key verticals (e.g., finance, travel, entertainment, telco, apparel, automotive) and execute a sales plan to close new contracts and grow revenue.
- Own end-to-end client relationship management, including prospecting, pitching, negotiating, onboarding, campaign management, performance analysis, and annual renewal discussions.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders (product, legal, partnerships, and client services) to secure approvals for new ad formats, refine product roadmaps, and unlock partnership opportunities for non-endemic clients.
- Educate clients on Instacart Ads’ full suite of solutions, including on-site media placements, audience segmentation capabilities, programmatic opportunities, and potential offsite activations like social and connected TV.
- Build scalable processes for managing and growing non-endemic vertical clients, creating playbooks, case studies, and best practices to inform future growth initiatives.
- Serve as a thought leader in identifying emerging non-endemic trends and advocate for innovative advertising opportunities that can drive incremental value for Instacart and its partners.
- Meet or exceed sales and revenue goals while ensuring high client satisfaction and campaign success.
- Willingness to travel for in-person meetings, client presentations, industry conferences, or team collaboration to drive partnerships and meet revenue goals
About You:
Minimum Qualifications:
- 7-10 years of experience in high-growth advertising verticals, with a strong track record of driving significant revenue through innovative ad sales.
- Deep knowledge of the digital media landscape, including programmatic platforms, social media advertising, connected TV, and audience segmentation for offsite campaigns.
- Proven ability to establish high-value partnerships at senior leadership levels, including the C-suite.
- Strong client presence, with the ability to craft persuasive and strategic pitches tailored to clients’ business objectives.
- A high achiever mentality with the ability to thrive in fast-paced, results-driven environments.
Preferred Qualfications:
- Experience working within or partnering directly with retail media networks (RMN) and understanding of their capabilities.
- Existing relationships and experience selling to key verticals, including finance/payment providers, travel, entertainment, telco, apparel, and automotive industries.
- Knowledge of audience segmentation value propositions and experience positioning segments effectively to drive advertiser ROI.
- Experience developing and selling innovative ad formats, launching new ad units, or establishing net-new revenue streams in an advertising context.
- Proven ability to adapt and succeed in dynamic, ambiguous environments, with a knack for crafting solutions for undefined or nascent ad products.
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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Instacart