Yield Management & Strategy Manager II

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>We're transforming the grocery industry</strong></p> <p><span class="im">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.</span></p> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>Instacart is a Flex First team </strong></p> <p>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. <a href="https://instacart.careers/remote/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://instacart.careers/remote/source=gmailust=1651869232122000usg=AOvVaw37OlxP8hAKN7nq4YwHQH7e">Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.</a></p></div><p> </p> <p><strong>Overview</strong></p> <p>We are hiring a Yield Manager II to join our Yield Management Strategy team and support the ad sales organization in pricing out new ad products and capabilities, across both Instacart’s on-platform and rapidly expanding off-platform offering. This role is central to ensuring we drive sustainable revenue growth, healthy advertiser performance, and operational rigor across all incentive, discounting, and yield-related programs.</p> <p>You will lead monthly incentive reporting, manage yield exceptions, shape pricing models for emerging off-platform partnerships (TikTok, Pinterest, Google, etc.), and provide strategic guidance across GTM initiatives, partner launches, and experimentation. This role interfaces frequently with Marketing, Product, Sales, Finance, RevOps, and external platform partners.</p> <p>The Yield Management and Strategy team sits within our Brand Partnerships organization. Its mission is to optimize Instacart ads revenue and long-term profitability through strategic pricing, inventory management, and data-driven insights. We collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Finance, Product, Insights, Media Analytics, and Legal teams to shape the product roadmap, develop innovative offerings, and provide objective guidance to do what’s best for our company and partners. We also facilitate seamless transactions via our ads deal desk, ensuring mutual success for our clients and sustained growth for our advertising business.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>About the Job</strong></p> <ul> <li>Own monthly incentive pacing and reporting, including: pipeline budget pacing</li> <li>Partner with Marketing to align on iROAS guidelines, budget pacing insights, and exception approvals, which help inform the incentive program(s) managed</li> <li>Quarterly and product-level allocation planning for the annual incentive budget</li> <li>Build, maintain, and automate dashboards and documentation used by Sales, Marketing, and leadership to track incentive utilization and performance.</li> <li>Evaluate and manage yield exceptions, ensuring alignment with Marketing on audience, creative, and structural approvals.</li> <li>Create and enforce internal pricing policies and ensure consistent yield governance across all cases.</li> <li>Develop and refine pricing frameworks for Off-Platform (OP) partnerships, including TikTok, Pinterest, Google, and The Trade Desk.</li> <li>Collaborate with Product, Product Marketing Strategy teams to package and price new offerings or capabilitie ... (truncated, view full listing at source)