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.
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.
As an Implementation Project Manager for Caper Hardware Operations, you will have the opportunity to drive the planning and continuous improvement of the Caper cart Deployment process as we scale to many thousands of carts in the market.
Caper.ai is a subsidiary of Instacart and an AI company. It leverages cutting-edge AI and computer vision technology to bring an autonomous shopping experience to the store.
Its product, the Caper Cart - an AI-powered smart cart equipped with scales, sensors, touchscreens, and computer vision technology, is the cornerstone of the Instacart Platform Connected Stores initiative.
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 computing, and endless image labeling & training. Retailers purchase intelligent shopping carts, and the entire store is upgraded with cashier-less capabilities!
Caper is one of the fastest-growing retail automation technology products in the market, costs less than 1% of our competition’s infrastructure, and is already widely adopted in the marketplace. Our cross-functional and durable Product team solves hard customer & business problems in ways our customers love.
- Responsible for project management of cart deployments across retailer stores, encompassing initial requirement collection through to assured on-time execution
- Identify and implement enhancements to drive efficiency and accuracy in the hardware requirement gathering process
- Develop comprehensive 90-day Deployment Plan, strategically balancing concurrent deployment demands with resource allocation
- Highlight and navigate conflicting priorities and efficiency or cost trade-offs within the Deployment Planning process
- Facilitate cross-functional communication, ensuring that all prerequisites are addressed to have a successful deployment
- Develop, publish and maintain a dynamic Deployment Schedule, in close collaboration with Hardware Maintenance
- Monitor the execution of the Deployment Schedule and proactively flag risks to facilitate corrective adjustments
- Assess ongoing initiatives and make recommendations for schedule and resource optimization across maintenance and deployment initiatives
- Craft detailed and comprehensive procedural and operational documentation of the Caper Hardware Request to Deployment Process
- Maintain rolling documentation of completed deployments and plans
- Finally be a Flex Player: In this fast paced environment, our priorities can evolve quickly. You must be willing and excited to engage with new and undefined problems with curiosity and a can-do attitude.
- A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
- 3+ years of supply chain, operations, or manufacturing experience
- Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple deployment initiatives simultaneously
- Experience in using quantitative and qualitative data to inform strategic decisions and drive improvements
- Proficient in Google Sheets
- Strong written and documentation skills
- Availability for travel as required to meet business needs
- Authorization to work in the US is required. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship
- Master’s degree or relevant industry experience
- Experience launching initiatives or process improvements
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What We Do
Instacart, the leading grocery technology company in North America, works with grocers and retailers to transform how people shop. The company partners with more than 1,400 national, regional, and local retail banners to facilitate online shopping, delivery and pickup services from more than 80,000 stores across North America on the Instacart Marketplace.
Why Work With Us
Our mission is to create a world where everyone has access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. By joining Instacart at this stage of our growth you will be jumping into a high-impact, career-defining environment that is revolutionizing the way people shop for groceries
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