Marketing Manager II, Media Excellence

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.

Why this role is on the menu

Media is one of Instacart's most powerful growth levers, and the team is actively evolving its operating model to serve multiple lines of business through a mix of in-house and agency-managed media. Without strong operating infrastructure, the media team risks spending its time on coordination and manual workarounds rather than strategy, innovation, and campaign performance. This role exists to design, own, and continuously improve the core mechanics of how the media team plans, executes, and optimizes work. Twelve months from now, the media team will operate with a clear, scalable, and trusted operating system that makes it easy to do great work without reliance on tribal knowledge.

What you'll cook up in your first year

• Media's planning frameworks, templates, and cadences are redesigned and adopted across the team, driving clarity and accountability in annual and quarterly planning cycles.
• A scalable media operating system is in place: budget pacing, performance reporting, campaign enablement, and process automation are governed by clear standards and a maintained roadmap.
• Intake, automation, and workflow tooling are simplified and reliable, with manual double-entry eliminated through well-scoped AI and automation solutions.
• Cross-functional operating rhythms, including business reviews and integrated campaign program manageme