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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
Are you excited about applying cutting-edge AI / ML models and technologies at the forefront of digital advertising? Are you inspired to deliver tangible, quantifiable impact to tens of millions of users and partners, while solving some of the toughest optimization challenges in a 4-sided marketplace? Are you passionate about mentoring and growing ML engineering talent, while instilling and fostering a principled engineering culture? If so, we have a job for you! The Ads Engineering team is looking for a seasoned ML engineering leader to act as the Area Tech Lead of Ads Quality. In this role, you will directly contribute to the company’s myriad of AI, ML, and Quality innovations, both as an Individual Contributor and Technical Lead. You will lead the team to design next-generation, AI-powered solutions to support the business’ broadening growth. You will partner with Eng and PM leadership to prioritize and support all product needs. You will develop company-defining collaborations with other engineering pillars across Instacart. You will grow and mentor engineers, and contribute to shaping engineering culture not only for Ads but for all of Instacart.
The Ads Engineering team builds E2E, full-stack systems to power Instacart’s industry-leading ads innovations in digital ads’ top growing channel - Retail Media. As a fast-growing, critical piece of Instacart’s overall business, the Ads Engineering team strives to both meet and support our advertiser partners for their needs today, while also challenging the status quo to push forward next-generation technologies. The team consists of a broad spectrum of engineers across all levels, with expertise ranging from backend infrastructure to data engineering to machine learning & AI to frontend technologies and more.
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About You
Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
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.
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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
We are seeking an exceptional Senior Director, Head of SOX to lead and elevate our Sarbanes-Oxley compliance program as we continue maturing as a public company. We need a proven SOX expert with deep technical expertise—not a generalist internal audit background—to strengthen our internal controls over financial reporting (ICFR) in a highly complex technology infrastructure and business environment.
This is a transformational role requiring someone who can assess our current state, identify opportunities for enhancement, and implement sustainable improvements. As many stakeholders are still building their public company expertise, you will need to balance education and enablement with driving continued maturation of our controls framework. This role demands someone who thrives in technical complexity and can dive extraordinarily deep into complex IT General Controls (ITGCs) and IT Application Controls (ITACs).
About the Role
You will own the complete SOX compliance lifecycle—from scoping and risk assessment through testing, remediation, and continuous improvement. Given our organization's complexity and the team's evolving SOX maturity, you must be both a technical expert and an effective educator, capable of building SOX competency across finance, technology, and operations while strengthening our foundational controls.
Critical focus areas include:
You'll partner closely with executive leadership, finance, IT/Engineering, external auditors, and other key stakeholders to establish financial reporting integrity and build sustainable compliance practices.
About the Team
You'll lead and strengthen the SOX compliance function, establishing it as a trusted center of excellence. You'll work across the organization—collaborating with finance, accounting, IT, security, legal, and business operations—to embed controls thinking into how we operate. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role where your expertise will directly shape our compliance maturity and risk posture.
Key Responsibilities
SOX Program Leadership & Optimization
IT Controls Expertise (ITGCs & ITACs)
Education & Organizational Development
Testing & Remediation
Governance & Reporting
External Audit Management
Continuous Improvement & Automation
Team Leadership
About You
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
What Sets the Ideal Candidate Apart
You are not a generalist—you are a SOX technical specialist who genuinely enjoys diving into complex control environments. You can read system architecture diagrams, understand data lineage, and assess whether a control is truly effective or just "checkbox compliance." You're energized by complexity, not intimidated by it.
You're a proven leader who can step into an organization, quickly assess what's working and what needs enhancement, and implement improvements that drive real results. You know how to build credibility, gain stakeholder trust, and deliver outcomes in dynamic environments.
You're a builder and educator who knows how to meet people where they are, patiently explain SOX concepts, and build capability across teams. You balance technical rigor with pragmatism, designing controls that are both effective and sustainable.
Finally, you have the gravitas and communication skills to operate at the executive level, presenting complex issues clearly and building confidence with the Board, auditors, and leadership team.
This is a high-impact opportunity to shape and mature our compliance program. If you're a SOX expert who thrives on technical complexity, excels at driving program excellence, and wants to make a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you.
#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
Share this job
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.
Caper Carts are AI-powered, intelligent shopping carts developed by Instacart that let customers scan, weigh, and pay for items directly on the cart—eliminating checkout lines. Equipped with cameras and sensors, these carts automatically recognize items, offer personalized promotions, and feature a touchscreen for real-time, interactive shopping. This machine learning team builds the brain behind the cart.
We're hiring an Engineering Manager, Machine Learning to lead a team of talented ML and AI infrastructure engineers who power perception, multimodal understanding, and edge inference for Caper Carts. You will own the roadmap for how our carts see and reason about what's in the basket, and you'll build the platforms and models that make checkout seamless in dynamic, real-world retail environments. Your direct team will be ~10 engineers within a broader organization of ~30 spanning Android and hardware.
This is a high-impact role at the frontier of physical AI—bridging edge devices in stores with cloud-scale data and training systems. You'll partner closely with Android, hardware, product, and operations to deliver measurable improvements in recognition accuracy, latency, and reliability. The role is remote across Canada; West Coast time zones are ideal, but we're open to great talent anywhere in the country. Learn more about our work at Connecting stores from edge to cloud: reinventing retail with physical AI.
#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
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