About this role
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 Strategic Finance team partners across the company to drive clarity, decisions, and results. Within our Growth pillar, we lead forecasting and insights for our Core grocery business. We are hiring a Senior Strategic Financial Analyst to own topline forecasting, deepen understanding of revenue and unit economics, and translate insights into actions that accelerate growth.
In this role, you’ll join a small, high-impact team within a 25-person Strategic Finance org. You’ll partner closely with Product, Marketing, Business Development, and Data Science, and you’ll regularly develop materials for and engage with senior leadership. If you thrive on rolling up your sleeves, diving into data, and shaping strategy with executive stakeholders, this role offers meaningful scope and visibility.
This is a remote role open to candidates across the U.S. and Canada; West Coast time zone preference is helpful but not required.
About the Job
• Own topline forecasting for Instacart’s Core grocery business, building and maintaining driver-based models that clearly tie to business performance and operational levers.
• Lead proactive deep dives on revenue and unit economics (e.g., LTV, CAC, conversion, AOV, contribution margin) to identify growth opportunities, surface risks, and recommend experiments that improve forecast accuracy and business outcomes.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Marketing, Business Development, and Data Science to align assumptions, improve data quality, instrument new metrics, and operationalize insights into roadmaps.
• Develop executive-ready materials for leadership, including narrative memos, dashboards, and scenario/sensitivity analyses that inform strategic priorities, resource allocation, and trade-off decisions.
• Own initiative reporting across marketing, product, and