Senior Marketing Manager I, Retailer Marketing (Ads) Job at Instacart in Myrtle

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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.

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Overview

About the Role

We are seeking a dynamic Senior Marketing Manager II to lead our Retailer Advertising marketing. In this newly created role, you will focus on supporting retailer ads development and expansion. You’ll empower retailers through the launch of managed service marketing plans that bring their brands to life on Instacart and their White Label sites. This role requires a deep understanding of retailer and advertising network specific strategies to quarterback new program launches and drive growth for brands utilizing new and existing ads products. You will also be instrumental in scaling our team to efficiently deliver across retailers of all sizes - major national retailers to regional players. This is a unique opportunity to significantly impact the trajectory of Instacart and contribute to the growth of a rapidly advancing Retailer Advertising business.

About the Team

While you’re likely familiar with Instacart’s role in consumers’ lives—providing access to the food they love so they have more time to enjoy it together — we also have a thriving B2B business that helps retailers and CPG brands reimagine the ways in which they connect with consumers. The Commercial Marketing team is made of consumer and business-facing marketers who work to drive revenue and sales by educating, exciting, and accelerating the business for brands and retailers.

About the Job

Own the marketing strategy building the foundations of Retailer Ads products and drive the cross-functional group building these products for retailers

Build retailer and ads industry relationships as a leading expert in omni-channel marketing strategies for ecommerce delivery platforms

Own the Ads marketing strategy by being the voice of the retailer for internal product prioritization and channel development, partnering closely with Product Marketing

Plan and coordinate Commercial, Partnerships, and Marketing teams to drive adoption of new marketing products, like Meta Off Platform

Enable retailers to market their Marketplace and White Label storefronts alike through custom managed service and scalable ads self-serve products

Develop Joint Annual Marketing Plans in partnership with our monetizable retailers - co-create the strategy, channel plans, sometimes also leading the trafficking, measurement, and optimization

Own integration and execution strategies enabling custom marketing plans across OTT, OLV, Streaming Audio, CRM, Direct Mail, SEM, Google PLA, Paid Social, Influencer, and others

Be the Retailer Advertising subject matter expert to communicate internally what retailers want and externally the value prop for retailers

Partner with Product Marketing to create case studies and supporting sales materials for retailers to educate and enable merchandising and marketing levers to bring their offline customers online driving bigger baskets and higher frequency

Drive the strategy around scalable marketing levers to extend marketing growth from custom white glove managed service to adoption of self-serve ads executions

Leverage AI to build strategies efficiently and customize assets across retailers at scale

Act as the ads advisor across Retailer Marketing team jumping in to external and internal conversations to guide development of ads pitches and planning

Own ongoing executive updates and reporting on Retailer Ads Marketing workstream progress to goal, key initiatives, state of the union, and marketing campaign updates

Collaborate with Marketing Analytics and Data Science to ensure the appropriate measurement methodologies and dashboards are in place for both working team, internal and external, and executive updates

Scale marketing growth with additional resourcing by implementing the cost-to-serve model hiring ongoing team members to support ads marketing execution

About You

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in marketing, business, or related field

10+ years of experience in growth or channel marketing in the Retail or technology industry

Experience working on ad networks and products specifically enabling retailers

Experience working on both B2B and B2C products and marketing

Deep understanding of the advertising / marketing ecosystem, with the ability to quickly grasp complex technical concepts and translate them into customer value propositions.

Proven success working with external partners or retailers

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to create compelling marketing content and effectively articulate product messaging.

Proven track record of developing and executing successful go-to-market strategies and playbooks.

Strong analytical skills and data-driven mindset, with the ability to analyze market trends, customer insights, and competitive intelligence to inform marketing strategies and decision-making.

Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment.

You have executive presence, understand marketing concepts, and can articulate them to a broad set of audiences

You enjoy working with external audiences and have strong communication skill

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred qualification : MBA preferred

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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.

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 rea d more about our benefits offerings here.

For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.

CA, NY, CT, NJ $175,000 — $194,000 USD

WA $167,000 — $186,000 USD

OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI $160,000 — $178,000 USD

All other states $145,000 — $161,000 USD

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