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“Growth…is really about building things for non-power users because if you’re constantly building things for power users, then new people aren’t going to be able to think about how to join or use your product. Our mission is to reduce barriers to adoption.” - Bangaly Kaba, VP of Growth. Listen to the latest episode Intercom's Scale Podcast below ⬇️
We celebrated Bring Your Kids to Work Day across our US offices last week. Our Instacart parents joined their little carrots in decorating cookies, putting their crafting skills to the test with our apron station, posing with fruit and vegetable props at our photo booth, and an engineering challenge. The kids also spent the day job shadowing their parents and attending meetings. Read more below. 🥕
Comin' in hot with an opportunity on our Logistics Operations team! It's Springtime Marathon season, which means road closures galore...but it doesn't mean that people want groceries any less. Thankfully we've got a team for that, and it's growing! As a Lead on the Log Ops team, you will be challenged to make decisions on both a tactical & strategic level, taking calculated steps to prepare for and/or react to anything that may potentially impact fulfillment operations. Some examples include extreme weather, systems outages, marathons, expansions, and allocation of shopper memberships/certifications. Click below to learn more & apply if you feel like we'd make a great pear 🍐
Lettuce take a moment to congratulate Kelvin L. for being recognized in Canada's 2019 Developer 30 under 30. Bravocado! 🥑 "Kelvin is a self-taught iOS developer who started his journey four years ago when he purchased his first MacBook. He found his calling at the birth of the Swift programming language, and has been building iOS applications ever since. Kelvin is a published author of two programming books, an international speaker at tech conferences, and manages the second ranked Swift GitHub repository. Kelvin currently works at Instacart as an iOS developer for the retailers team."
Pictured here: “A Star is Corn,” the winning team from our SF office’s “Super Market Sweeps” challenge. We are proud of you...and we are especially proud of that food pun. 🌽
"A manager told me, 'Start where you stand.' When you’re in a trap thinking, ‘If only we had …,’ put your energy into the next step—start." — Nilam Ganenthiran, Chief Business Officer Check out Nilam's full profile in the Globe and Mail below.
"It allows us to have a clear understanding of what’s available in our stores, to figure out what kinds of replacements—if needed—are best for the customer and ensure accurate, on-time delivery," - Nilam Ganenthiran, Chief Business Officer, on building out a data set and predictive technology to orchestrate the millions of shopping trips taking place across our 20,000 retail partner locations.
We're so grateful for our strong, diverse, and generally awesome community of women today and every day—from customers, shoppers, to employees. Happy International Women's Day!
A quick look into how our Data Science team uses randomized, controlled experiments and multivariate regression to streamline our logistics and fulfilment chain:
Check out our Data Analytics team: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vIozk
