Chief of Staff, Online Grocery

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>We're transforming the grocery industry</strong></p> <p><span class="im">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.</span></p> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>Instacart is a Flex First team </strong></p> <p>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. <a href="https://www.instacart.careers/flex-first" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://instacart.careers/remote/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1651869232122000&amp;usg=AOvVaw37OlxP8hAKN7nq4YwHQH7e">Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.</a></p></div><h2><strong>Overview</strong></h2> <p>Instacart's mission is to create a world where everyone has access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Online Grocery is the heart of that mission — the products millions of customers rely on every day and the team that builds them. We're looking for a <strong>Chief of Staff, Online Grocery</strong> to partner with the General Manager who leads this business and its product and R&amp;D organization of ~200 people across product, design, research and technical program management.</p> <p>People, operations and programs are the core of the work — but what should energize you is what that work makes possible. A Chief of Staff here helps the organization operate at its best: more cohesive, clearer in its purpose, sharper and faster in how it makes decisions and operates, and enabled to do the thing that matters most — building products our customers love. If you're motivated by improving how a team works, and serve as a multiplier on everything the team can ship, this is your role.</p> <p>This is a highly strategic and operational individual-contributor role (no direct reports) for someone exceptionally organized, has strong business and strategic sense, high in empathy, an