Job brief: Principal Product Manager, Ads Quality

What JoRoute checked · Checked by JoRoute

• Listed on Instacart's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-06 (1 day ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-06.
• The apply link opens instacart.careers, the address Instacart's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $250,000 to $264,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Remote · United States - Remote · Remote - Canada · Remote - United States
• Posted: 2026-11-05

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Manager. The title says "Manager".

Must have

• 7-10 years of product management experience, including ownership of product lines generating $100M+ in revenue.
• Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role.

Conditions

• Willingness to travel approximately 25% of the time.

Main duties

• Create surface-level controls that balance customer value and advertiser value across Sponsored Products
• Drive a high-velocity experimentation program in merchandising, ranking, and relevance - with a goal of shipping experiments that deliver multi-million dolla…
• Develop a comprehensive strategy for evolving our ranking and monetization systems to better represent customer intent per ad request
• Lead system design for complex ranking and relevance systems in partnership with Machine Learning engineers, and advance improvements to core retrieval and r…
• Partner closely with engineering, design, data science, and UX research to turn ambiguous, high-stakes problems into clear hypotheses, requirements, and meas…

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for manager jobs across the U.S.: $161k a year (2,903 listings, 244 employers). This listing is 59% higher.
• Across Instacart's 78 open listings, 38% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Instacart hires

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