Taste of Instacart
Company Updates
Introducing Flex First, Instacart’s Future of Work
Since Instacart’s earliest days, we primarily built our culture in-person. We designed beautiful offices in San Francisco, Toronto, Atlanta and New York, hosted epic events and thought of our employee experience as a series of moments where “you had to be there.” But overnight, everything changed. During the pandemic, Instacart quickly transformed from a convenience to an essential service for millions of families. During this…...
May 6, 2022
Taste of Instacart
Meet Garima Sinha, Director of Product Management, Growth
When Garima Sinha started her career, she didn’t know what product management was. “The function didn’t really exist back then, but that didn’t stop me from loving solving problems, brainstorming possibilities, and designing solutions,” she…...
Sep 29, 2021
Taste of Instacart
What’s it like to join Instacart as a remote employee?
By Cody Reppert, Product Designer II 2020 hit us all differently. For me, the most immediate effect was on my career. At the beginning of the year I was working in my first job out of…...
Sep 16, 2021
Company Updates
How Our Team Unplugged for “Self-Checkout”
Over the past 18 months, our teams have stepped up to the unique challenges introduced by the pandemic to show up for our customers, shoppers and partners across North America. We know that during these…...
Sep 9, 2021
Taste of Instacart
New Carrots at Instacart – A Year(+) of Remote Onboarding
I love Maya Angelou's words: “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” This sentiment guides how we…...
Aug 18, 2021
Taste of Instacart
Creating Community and Building Awareness: Meet the Co-Leads of our Asians@ ERG
As Joy Zhu sat in her New Carrots onboarding session, “Taste of Instacart” that covered Employee Resource Groups (ERG) communities at Instacart, she saw an opportunity to create one that was missing: an ERG for…...
Jul 1, 2021
Taste of Instacart
Meet Jennifer Sutton, our Senior Director of Diversity, Equity and Belonging
When Jennifer Sutton landed in the diversity and inclusion field approximately 14 years ago, she says that diversity, equity, and belonging (DEB) looked a lot different than it does today. “Back then we talked about…...
Jun 23, 2021
Company Updates
Joining Our Table: Meet Laura Jones, VP of Brand & Marketing
With millions of households across North America relying on Instacart to get their groceries and household essentials each week, our teams remain relentlessly focused on building the absolute best online grocery shopping experience possible. Now,…...
Jun 17, 2021
Company Updates
Joining Our Table: Meet Instacart’s Newest Product Leaders
Our mission is to create a world where everyone has access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. We do this by making online grocery shopping effortless and affordable. To…...
May 25, 2021
Company Updates
Introducing Instacart’s Remote-Friendly Return to Work
When the global pandemic emerged in North America in early 2020, Instacart became an essential service overnight for millions of people. During this time, we saw customer demand surge and more active Instacart shoppers on…...
May 6, 2021