About the company
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. 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 is a Flex First team. 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.
Responsibilities
- Own our broad-based comp strategy end-to-end.
- Drive the programs, frameworks, and cross-functional partnerships that keep our pay competitive and fair as we grow into new markets.
- Run annual and mid-year comp cycles with greater precision and speed.
- Work closely with HR Business Partners, Finance, Legal, and senior business leaders to solve hard problems and give them recommendations they can act on.
- Weigh in on executive offers, retention decisions, org changes, pay equity questions, and stand behind difficult calls in gray areas.
- Ensure Instacart's equity compensation approach is competitive and forward-looking.
- Lead a high-performing team of compensation business partners.
- Carry individual contributor responsibilities as a compensation business partner to stay close to evolving business needs.
- Lead international expansion compensation work, building frameworks, market data, and guidance.
Requirements
- 10+ years of progressive compensation experience, with at least 3 years leading a people management role.
- Proven track record directly supporting large R&D or Engineering functions, with experience advising VP/SVP-level leaders on complex compensation decisions.
- Deep expertise in equity compensation design and strategy.
- Experience building compensation programs at scale: job architecture, market pricing, performance cycles, and pay-for-performance frameworks.
- Ability to transform disparate data into clear recommendations for executives. Expertise in spreadsheet work (gSheets and Excel).
- A genuine interest in how AI and technology can make compensation work better, and the initiative to actually go build it.
Conditions
- This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location.
- 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.