Overview

About the Role - 

This role offers the exciting opportunity to leverage your technical expertise and leadership skills to drive programs that enhance our products, applications, and platform, and ultimately, the magical experience of smart shopping with Caper Carts. As a Technical Program Manager at Caper by Instacart, you will be at the forefront of our mission to transform the grocery industry by delivering on Instacart’s most innovative efforts. You will own projects, working closely with cross-functional teams in Engineering, Product Management, Data Science, Design and others to define requirements, manage execution, and mitigate risks. We are looking for driven individuals who thrive in a fast-paced engineering environment, are passionate about quality and improving team performance, and feel comfortable pushing on scope and technical trade-offs as well as building an executive narrative. You are able to operate independently, and work proactively with various teams across the organization. 

Every day we solve incredibly complex, cross-functional problems to create an experience for our users that is absolutely magical. Join us!

About the Team -

Caper builds smart shopping carts powered by deep learning and computer vision to enable a seamless grab-and-go retail experience. Caper’s unique technology is a plug-and-play solution that does not require retail store renovation, operational overhaul, heavy compute, and endless image labeling & training. Retailers simply purchase smart shopping carts and the entire store is upgraded with cashierless capabilities!

Caper is one of the fastest-growing retail automation technology products in the market, costs less than 1% of our competitions’ infrastructure and is already widely adopted in the marketplace. Our cross-functional Engineering team solves hard product and infrastructure problems that enable wide-scale deployment of the Caper smart carts.

About the Job 

• Lead the planning and high quality technical execution of small to medium sized engineering projects, demonstrating a strong sense of urgency, efficiency, and ownership.
• Work closely with Software Engineers, Product Managers, Product Designers, and Data Scientists to set project objectives and metric-based success criteria. Drive definition of project requirements and execution plans, and manage the project’s progress and outcome.
• Own clear and effective communication with stakeholders, ensuring alignment on and awareness of priorities, risks, and changes. 
• Foster a culture of teamwork and shared goals, creating a collaborative team environment and driving the right level of process to ensure efficiency and high quality delivery within the project team.
• Build repeatable mechanisms and processes that can be used to run programs based on best practices that do not require active program management.

About You

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of work experience post-graduation in a technology field, preferably as a technical program or project manager, product manager, software engineer (technical domain), or related technical discipline.
• A strong communicator able to distill multiple streams of information, convey priorities and risks, and build a narrative for stakeholders.
• A strong sense of ownership and intellectual curiosity to understand executional and technical problems in depth, identify potential issues and offer actions to prevent them.
• Excellent collaborator and motivator, able to bring a team together to align and deliver on a common goal.
• Growth mindset - seeks and is receptive to actionable feedback and growth opportunities.
• Takes accountability seriously; can operate independently to deliver responsibilities and milestones on time and within estimates
• Self-motivated and thrives in a fast-paced environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technology / engineering discipline.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to create functional specs, set a project structure and influence project strategy. Previous experience in managing a project end-to-end, from definition to launch, throughout a software development lifecycle.
• Previous experience in program management tooling, process definition.
• Experience working with mobile software development and/or hardware products.
• Track record of operating across multiple teams and functions to successfully deliver outcomes.