Ads AI Analytics Lead II

We're transforming the grocery industry 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. Instacart is a Flex First team 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. Overview Instacart’s Commercial Scaled Intelligence (CSI) team is an AI-first group focused on turning data into action—building products that drive revenue growth, operational efficiency, and better outcomes for our customers, shoppers, retailers, brands, and partners. As the Ads AI Analytics Lead, you will own the intelligence behind our Ads agents. You’ll design the semantic and context layer for advertising, and build production-grade agents that analyze campaigns, diagnose performance, and recommend actions that improve ROAS, pacing, and partner outcomes. You will collaborate closely with Ads GTM, Product, Data Science, and Engineering to ship vertical agents with measurable lift. This seat is uniquely high-impact: the tools you build are used daily by Sales, Brand Partnerships, and Ads teams, including a sales tool used by approximately 265 sellers. You will