Senior Program Manager, Quality Assurance

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.

• Minimum 6–8 years of combined program management and analytical experience, preferably in customer experience, contact center operations, trust and safety, or comparable operational functions.
• Experience in Customer Experience, contact center, quality assurance, or trust and safety operations.
• Understanding of contact center metrics (quality scores, sentiment, first contact resolution, average handle time) and the operational levers that move them.
• Understanding of A/B testing and other forms of statistical analysis.
• Proficiency with AI tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot) and a demonstrated ability to integrate them into day-to-day workflows.
• Demonstrated experience as both a program manager and a hands-on data analyst — not one supported by the other.
• High proficiency in SQL, with experience writing complex queries, joins, and optimizations against large datasets.
• Experience with analytical visualization tools such as Mode, Tableau, Looker, Sigma, or similar tools.
• Track record of building reporting and analytics that an executive audience actually uses to make decisions.
• Proven ability to run cross-functional programs with named owners, published service-level agreements, and measurable outcomes.
• Ability to identify potential root causes contributing to changes in quality and efficiency metrics and provide recommendations on mitigation strategy.
• Extremely strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex topics and create compelling narratives for various audiences.
• Ability to work effectively with internal stakeholders, including data scientists, data engineers, and operational leaders. Work cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Operations, and L&D to drive change.
• Excellent teamwork skills and desire to help others learn.
• High level of accountability and ownership — driven and focused self-starter.
• Strategic mindset — the ability to think ahead of where the program is at now and help stand up a new operating model rather than maintain an established one.

• Familiarity with QA operations: rubric design and calibration, auditor variance management, dispute workflows, and core quality scoring methodologies.
• Working knowledge of QA platforms such as Kaizo, MaestroQA, Playvox, or comparable tools.
• Exposure to LLM-assisted auditing, automated quality scoring, or other applied AI tooling within a customer experience context.
• Experience with R or Python (fluency in at least one preferred).
• Experience with experimentation, data modeling, ETL, and data pipeline development.

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