Director of Product, Logistics
Remote · 4+ years experience · Full-time · Remote · Posted Sep 16, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 4+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Remote
About the role
- The Director of Product, Logistics will lead the product organization responsible for the multi-sided fulfillment engine that powers Instacart's platform.
- This leadership role involves setting the multi-year vision and strategy for logistics, including order batching, routing, shopper matching, and pay.
- The position requires partnering with engineering, machine learning, and data science teams to drive company-wide impact on growth and profitability.
Responsibilities
- Own the multi-year product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Logistics.
- Partner with executive leadership to define, prioritize, and deliver strategy.
- Solve complex fulfillment problems and build 0-to-1 products and services.
- Lead, hire, develop, and grow a high-performing team of product managers.
- Establish operating rhythms, hiring plans, and development frameworks.
- Act as a partner to engineering and ML leadership on complex technical tradeoffs.
- Define clear success metrics and maintain a rigorous experimentation portfolio.
- Lead cross-org initiatives that improve organizational health.
- Mentor and uplevel PMs across the broader organization.
Requirements
- 10+ years of product management or similar experience.
- 4+ years managing and developing product managers, including senior PMs.
- Strong marketplace or systems thinking capabilities.
- Proven track record leading multi-quarter initiatives and delivering products measured by business outcomes.
- Strong technical fluency with ML- and algorithms-driven products.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to hire, develop, and retain high-performing PMs.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in a multi-sided dynamic marketplace-oriented role.
- Experience envisioning or evaluating algorithms-based products and services.
- Background in logistics, fulfillment, supply chain, or operationally complex physical environments.
- Experience with e-commerce or grocery technology.
Benefits
- Market-competitive compensation
- New hire equity grant
- Annual refresh equity grants
Workplace
- Employees have the flexibility to choose where they work, including home, office, or other locations.
Skills
- Machine Learning
- Algorithms
- Data Science
- Product Management
