Instacart

Director, International Strategy & Planning

Instacart$234K — $247K *
US-Anywhere
+ 2 other locationsRemote
Retail & Consumer Goods
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in grocery, retail, enterprise SaaS, or strategy consulting for the grocery industry.
  • Proven track record of driving significant business impact through collaborative projects.
  • Expertise in developing operational frameworks for cross-functional international teams.
  • Experience with regulatory environments and market entry strategies in various international contexts.
  • Exceptional executive communication skills tailored for diverse audiences.
  • Ability to synthesize complex data into clear strategic narratives.
  • Strong empathy for retail partners and knowledge of grocery sector challenges.
  • Proven leadership capabilities that foster high performance and team engagement.

Responsibilities

  • Define and develop the international go-to-market strategy for Instacart's retail solutions.
  • Lead cross-functional collaboration to create Instacart's international operating model.
  • Oversee long-term planning for international growth and identify high-impact business opportunities.
  • Build systems for international enablement, including ROI models and competitive analysis.
  • Partner with sales teams to implement resources that support platform partnerships and solutions.
  • Identify and accelerate retail go-to-market strategies through strategic partnerships.
  • Communicate insights and results effectively to senior leadership and retail partners.

Benefits

  • Flexible remote work policy with location adaptability.
  • Eligibility for new hire equity grants and annual refresh grants.
  • Market-competitive compensation tailored to work location.
  • Comprehensive benefits offerings available to employees.
Full Job Description
OVERVIEW

We are hiring a Director, Strategy & Planning (International) to drive international go-to-market strategy for our Instacart Platform. In this role, you will have responsibilities including, but not limited to, overseeing the International pillar of the Strategy & Planning team, setting Instacart's retailer go-to-market strategy for these initiatives across the full span of our Instacart Platform solutions, supporting the ongoing success of these initiatives, and communicating results to Instacart's executive team.

ABOUT THE JOB
  • Define Instacart's international retailer strategy for launching and growing our suite of Instacart Platform solutions by driving vision, commercialization strategy, and go-to-market planning of complete range of retail enterprise opportunities available to retailers outside North America
  • Lead Strategy & Planning pillar responsible for collaborating with Engineering, Product, Corporate Development, Operations, Legal, Finance, and other cross-functional stakeholders to define our international operating model and new market entry strategy
  • Own long-range planning for the international commercial business, turning our business momentum into clear targets that focus our efforts on the highest-impact opportunities to support our long-term growth
  • Build the international commercial enablement system, including ROI models, GTM materials, and competitive intelligence. Partner with sales teams to bring these resources to bear to support both multi-solution platform partnerships and point-solution opportunities
  • Work closely with our Strategic Partnerships team to identify opportunities to accelerate our retail GTM strategy through growth and product partnerships
  • Deliver clear and compelling content to senior leadership, both internally and at retail partners


ABOUT YOU
  • 10+ years previous experience in the grocery, retail, enterprise SaaS GTM, or strategy consulting serving the grocery industry with demonstrated cross-functional and collaborative project experience, and a track record of significant business impact.
  • Experience building and running an operating cadence and governance framework for a complex, cross-functional and multi-region business.
  • Experience operating in an international environment, including comfort with varying regulatory and competitive contexts, new-market entry strategy and planning, and distributed teams.
  • Comfort with both risk and ambiguity, and skilled at creating organized and structured details even in ambiguous contexts. Ability to work in a fast-changing environment, with an entrepreneurial approach.
  • Executive-level written and visual communication skills serving cross-functional teams, management, and external stakeholders. Ability to sell a big-picture story to a variety of audiences, and credibility to get into fine-grained details where needed.
  • Long-term strategic thinking balanced with near-term execution skills and the ability to take complex data and distill them into a meaningful and coherent story.
  • Strong retailer empathy and an ability to understand what matters most to our grocery and non-grocery partners' business.
  • Inspirational team leader with experience building a culture of engagement, enthusiasm, and high performance.
  • Location flexible

#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. 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.

CAN

$234,000-$247,000 CAD

About Instacart

Instacart is an American company that operates a grocery delivery and pick-up service in the United States and Canada. The company offers its services via a website and mobile app. The service allows customers to order groceries from participating retailers with the shopping being done by a personal shopper. Instacart was founded in 2012 by entrepreneur Apoorva Mehta, a former Amazon.com employee. Apoorva was born in India and moved with his family to Canada in 2000. He studied engineering at the University of Waterloo and graduated in 2008. He was a participant in Y Combinator's Summer 2012 batch, which eventually led to the creation of Instacart. In 2013, Mehta was included on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Apoorva previously worked at BlackBerry, Qualcomm, and then Amazon as a supply chain engineer, where he developed fulfillment systems to move packages from Amazon's warehouses to customers' homes. Before founding Instacart, Apoorva had tried to start at least 20 other services. He tried building an ad network for social gaming companies, and developing a social network specifically for lawyers, among other start-ups. Instacart originally launched in San Francisco. By April 2015, the firm had about 200 employees. It introduced a new policy around June allowing some shoppers to choose to be part-time employees, starting with Chicago and Boston and extending its offer to shoppers in Atlanta, Miami, and Washington D.C. the following month.
Learn more about Instacart
Industry
Founded
2012

Similar Jobs

More Jobs at Instacart

More Retail & Consumer Goods Jobs

Find similar Director, International Strategy & Planning jobs: