Own the vision and strategy for enabling retailers to create differentiated experiences using AI tools in a fully remote role.
Posted by employer 2 days ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 day ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Own the long-term vision, strategy, and roadmap for enabling retailers
- Build AI-assisted tools for retailers
- Define the balance between retailer flexibility and platform coherence
- Expand the platform’s extensibility for sophisticated use cases
- Partner directly with enterprise retailers to understand their needs
Must have
- 8+ years of B2B product management or similar experience
- Strong experience operating at the intersection of product and go-to-market
- Proven ability to build trust with executives
- Strong leadership skills
- Demonstrated ability to handle complex product problems
Nice to have
- Experience with AI-accelerated creation tools
- 2+ years of involvement with sales / consulting or customer discovery
Practical constraints
- Currently hiring in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia only
AI in the day-to-day
Build AI-assisted tools that make sophisticated customization dramatically easier and faster for retailers and internal teams.
Requirements
- Experience
- 8+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
The Senior Product Manager for AI Control Studio at Instacart is responsible for shaping the long-term vision and strategy that empowers retailers to create customized digital experiences on their platforms. This role requires a strong blend of product management expertise, technical acumen, and the ability to collaborate with diverse teams to translate complex retailer needs into scalable solutions. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in B2B product management, particularly at the intersection of product and go-to-market strategies, and should be comfortable navigating ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.
Joblaze insights
- Listed yesterday — first seen on Joblaze September 17, 2026. Last confirmed on Instacart's careers page September 17, 2026.
- This exact title is also open at 1 other location at Instacart: United States.
- Starts above 68% of 19 comparable senior product roles in Canada we track (median $117,967 across 8 companies).
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Product Manager, AI Control Studio role remote?
- Yes — Instacart lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Instacart lists CAD 194,000–CAD 204,500 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 8 years of relevant experience for this Senior Product Manager, AI Control Studio role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI-assisted customization, AI/ML.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Instacart targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Product Manager, AI Control Studio role at Instacart.
From the original posting
We're transforming the grocery industry
Overview
About the Role
The right person will bring exceptional product judgment, very high throughput decision making, and strong technical acumen. They will be able to partner deeply with senior engineers, align a complex group of stakeholders around a long-term vision and challenge conventional approaches when necessary.
The role also requires serving as a strategic product partner to retailers, working alongside commercial counterparts and multiple R&D teams to translate sophisticated retailer needs into cohesive, scalable, enterprise-ready solutions.
About the Team
Instacart’s Enterprise Platform team builds the white-label products that enable retailers of all sizes to compete online through their own ecommerce experiences. The team is focused on platform growth and long-term retailer success — from onboarding new partners to helping retailers acquire, serve, and retain their customers in ways that reflect their unique brand, strategy, and capabilities.
About the Job
- Own the long-term vision, strategy, and roadmap for enabling retailers to create differentiated experiences on top of their storefronts, giving them significantly more control while maintaining appropriate platform guardrails.
- Build AI-assisted tools that make sophisticated customization dramatically easier and faster for retailers and internal teams.
- Define the right balance between retailer flexibility and platform coherence — enabling meaningful differentiation while preserving conversion, reliability, maintainability, and the other core value the platform provides.
- Expand the platform’s extensibility so retailers can support increasingly sophisticated use cases and connect their storefronts with the broader technology ecosystems they rely on.
- Partner directly with sophisticated enterprise retailers to understand their technical and business needs, shape product strategy, and drive solutions that can scale across the broader platform.
- Work closely with engineering, design, commercial, and other product teams to turn an ambitious long-term vision into a high-velocity roadmap and measurable customer outcomes.
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- 8+ years of B2B product management or similar experience
- Strong experience operating at the intersection of product and go-to-market, working closely with enterprise sales, marketing, and customer success.
- Proven ability to build trust with executives, internally and externally.
- Strong leadership skills — able to guide large, multidisciplinary teams toward shared outcomes across Product, Engineering, Data, Design, and GTM.
- Demonstrated ability to handle complex product problems across a wide product surface with high ambiguity.
- Strong product vision and communication skills — able to envision how grocery and e-commerce will evolve over the next three years, translate near-term asks into scalable platform offerings, and layer in emerging technologies to go beyond incremental improvements.
- Proven customer and product strategy ability:
a) Build trust with external customers
b) Identify needs and craft complex platform solutions
c) Rally internal teams to make high-stakes tradeoffs under ambiguity and tight deadlines - Fluent in both product intuition and data: able to assess value propositions for both retailers and their end customers, balancing qualitative insights and quantitative impact.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with AI-accelerated creation tools — using text/image prompts to help users generate or customize UI, content, or code
- 2+ years of involvement with sales / consulting or customer discovery with senior executives
#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.
For Canadian based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
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