Technical Recruiter, Instacart
$117-130k
+ New hire equity grant
Online grocery marketplace and grocery tech platform
Job no longer available
Online grocery marketplace and grocery tech platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$117-130k
+ New hire equity grant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where everyone has access to the food they love and have more time to enjoy it together.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of fast-paced, high-volume technical recruiting experience
- Proven experience in adapting and effectively influencing various stakeholders
- Strong understanding of recruiting strategies and dynamics in a competitive technical talent market
- Exceptional ability to create and maintain robust partnerships with both internal teams and external candidates
- Ability working both autonomously and within a team
- Balance expertise with innovative recruitment solutions when it comes to improving our process, practices, and recruiting brand
- Excellent written and verbal communication
What the job involves
- Join Instacart as a Technical Recruiter and play a pivotal role in scaling our engineering teams to propel our core product initiatives
- Your mission will be to identify, engage, and hire exceptional technical talent, making a direct impact on our ability to innovate and deliver services that resonate with millions of users
- Your expertise will contribute to shaping the future of our engineering endeavors, ensuring we attract and retain the best minds in a fiercely competitive landscape
- The Technical Recruiting Team at Instacart is the backbone of our engineering growth, tasked with crafting the formidable teams responsible for our product's scalability and innovation
- Your efforts will directly contribute to our mission of creating accessibility to the foods people love and enriching the time they can spend together
- As a part of this team, you will help mold the foundation of our engineering capabilities and culture
- Build recruitment strategies of diverse talent pools and match top-tier candidates with suitable roles
- Develop and oversee programs that bolster our recruitment efforts, tailored to meet specific hiring objectives
- Collaborate with recruiting leadership to monitor recruitment metrics, using insights to enhance hiring practices and decisions
- Act as a strategic advisor to hiring managers, refining recruitment tactics and ensuring alignment with organizational goals
- From extending offers to closing candidates, you will ensure a smooth, engaging, and effective hiring cycle
- Build strong relationships with key stakeholders across various departments to align recruitment efforts with broader business objectives
- Champion Instacart’s values, ensuring all candidates have a positive journey through our hiring process
Our take
Instacart is an online grocery marketplace that operates a pick-up and delivery system in the US and Canada. Unlike standard grocery shopping, Instacart sends a “personal shopper” to your local store to buy your products, who then delivers them straight to your door on the same day via their own car. The company also supplies the Instacart Platform, with services for stores encompassing eCommerce, fulfilment, in-store, ads, and insights.
The increased modernization of society has meant more than ever that consumers are looking to buy their groceries online, making space for apps like Instacart to become daily life staples for years to come. Although the company must compete with other grocery store delivery services, such as Walmart’s own, it has expanded to cover large percentages of US and Canadian households, and is now aligned with over 1,500 retail banners across more than 85,000 locations.
With an expanding partnership with Kroger, Instacart continues to demonstrate why it's a leader in the gorcery delivery space. By powering fast, reliable delivery from neary 2,700 stores and introducing tools like the AI-powered Cart Assistant, Instacart isn't just enhanceing the way millions of families shop but also shaping the future of personalized, convenient grodery expericnes. This deepening collaboration underscores Instacart's ability to drive growth and deliver value to both customers and partners.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 15 rounds)
Nov 2021
$232m
LATE VC
Mar 2021
$265m
LATE VC
Total funding: $2.9bn
Company benefits
- Wellness Tailored to You: Medical, dental, vision, retirement, life & disability coverage right alongside physical & mental wellness programs, memberships and stipends to keep you and your family feeling your best.
- Family Building Benefits: No matter where you are in your family journey, we support you. Our plans cover modern family planning for all. We offer leave for all parents, flexible working schedules and an active Parents@ community.
- Work From Home Stipend: We help outfit your WFH setup and offer reimbursements so you can be your most productive while at home.
- Flexible Time Off: We all recharge differently. Take the time you need with our flexible time off policy and company-wide Self-Checkouts where we encourage everyone to sign off.
- Learning & Development: Whether you're just starting your career or leading teams, we provide customized L&D programs to help you grow and an annual allowance to pursue your development.
- Future Planning: We have you covered as you plan for your future. 401(k) matching in the US and RRSP in Canada, student loan assistance through Peanut Butter, free Rocket Lawyer membership, SoFi & First Republic financial planning and more.
- Four Year Fill-Up: We encourage our tenured employees to take longer breaks and truly unplug by doing something they love – typically four consecutive weeks around the four year mark.
- Community Connection: Support the communities you care about with volunteer weeks and get involved with our social impact program, Instacart Serves.
- Instacart Express Membership: We help keep your fridge stocked. Unlock grocery discounts with our Instacart Beta app while testing our latest features.
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Apoorva Mehta
(Co-Founder & Chairman)Studied Electrical Engineering at University of Waterloo. Worked in Fulfillment Optimisation SDE at Amazon.com before going on to co-found Instacart.
Brandon Leonardo
(Co-Founder)Interned at Cisco Systems as an IT Engineer. Later became a Senior Web Developer at Webs and then a Venture Hacker at Angel List.
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