Chief of Staff, Online Grocery

Instacart · Canada - Remote (ON, AB, BC, or NS Only)Remotesenior

In short

▸Jefe de Staff estratégico para el negocio de Grocery Online, apoyando al GM de un equipo de ~200 personas.
▸Gestiona el ritmo operativo: reuniones, planes, decisiones y seguimiento de ejecución con enfoque en claridad y velocidad.
▸Destacado: rol clave para mejorar cómo el equipo toma decisiones y opera, sin tener reportes directos.

🌐 Proficiency in English is required.

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What they ask for

✓Experiencia comprobada en roles operativos estratégicos en empresas tecnológicas.
✓Capacidad para gestionar múltiples prioridades y mantener la coherencia en equipos grandes.
✓Excelentes habilidades de comunicación y empatía para trabajar con líderes de producto, diseño e ingeniería.
✓Capacidad para diseñar y mejorar procesos de toma de decisiones y ritmos operativos.
✓Habilidades avanzadas de organización y gestión de agendas, documentos y seguimiento.
✓Compromiso con la cultura de flexibilidad y trabajo híbrido.

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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. Overview 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 Chief of Staff, Online Grocery to partner with the General Manager who leads this business and its product and R&D organization of ~200 people across product, design, research and technical program management. 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. 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, and who has an understanding of how product, design, and engineering teams work. About the Job Run the operating rhythm • Own and continuously improve the business rhythm for the GM and the organization — leadership team syncs, all-team meetings, monthly and quarterly business reviews, planning reviews, organizational communications, and Online Grocery segments of company-wide all-hands. • Manage the operating cadence for the GM — prioritizing and delegating workstreams, ensuring the right things get the right attention at the right time. • Improve how the organization decides: clarify decision rights and the questions that matter, build the frameworks and pre-reads that bring options into focus, and remove the friction that slows good calls. • Once decisions are made, capture and sharpen them, ensure they're communicated to the right stakeholders, and close the loop on execution — keeping leadership priorities, decisions, and commitments visible and on track (R&D execution itself is owned by TPM). • Shape and run the substance of the leadership team offsites: objectives, agenda, pre-reads, the hard discussions, decisions, and follow-through (logistics and ev

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