Instacart

Associate Program Manager, Legal Operations

Instacart

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $102,000 - $129,000 per year

Tech Stack

About the role

  • Own end-to-end commercial contracting intake and triage, ensuring complete packages, accurate routing, and on-time progress through drafting, review, and approvals.
  • Coordinate retailer/CPG onboarding across Sales, Sales Ops, IT, and Finance; run regular standups, unblock dependencies, and drive escalations to shorten cycle times.
  • Administer and improve CLM and Salesforce workflows, including templates, playbooks, approval matrices, clause libraries, data hygiene, and operational dashboards.
  • Define and maintain process documentation and SLAs; create and deliver training that enables go-to-market and legal stakeholders to self-serve confidently.
  • Measure what matters by tracking KPIs (e.g., cycle time, approval latency, rework rate); analyze bottlenecks, recommend experiments, and deliver continuous process improvements.
  • Manage a dynamic queue of priorities with clear stakeholder communication, proactive risk identification, and crisp execution in a constantly evolving environment.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in legal operations, sales operations, contract management, or program coordination within a high-growth or enterprise environment.
  • Bachelor’s degree or 4+ additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
  • Hands-on experience with a CLM platform (e.g., Ironclad, Icertis, Conga, Agiloft), including building or administering workflows, templates, and reports.
  • Proficiency with Salesforce (reporting and dashboards) and Google Sheets/Excel (pivot tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP).
  • Experience coordinating cross-functional commercial contracting workflows (e.g., NDAs, MSAs, SOWs, Order Forms) with Legal, Sales, Finance, and IT stakeholders.
  • Proven ability to manage projects using tools such as Asana, Jira, or Smartsheet and to deliver against defined SLAs in a fast-paced environment.
  • Experience supporting revenue workflows in marketplace, ad tech, e-commerce, or retailer/CPG partnership environments.
  • Experience implementing or migrating a CLM or related workflow solution and driving adoption at scale.
  • Familiarity with deal desk processes, pricing and approvals, and revenue-related controls (e.g., SOX) for commercial contracts.
  • Ability to build or maintain dashboards in Looker or Tableau and conduct root-cause analyses on cycle time and throughput.
  • Certification(s) such as Lean Six Sigma, PMP, or involvement with CLOC or similar legal operations communities.
Benefits
  • Remote work options
  • Equity grants
  • Annual refresh grants

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
contract managementworkflow administrationdata analysisKPI trackingproject managementprocess documentationroot-cause analysisdata hygienereportingcontinuous process improvement
Soft skills
stakeholder communicationrisk identificationproblem-solvingcross-functional coordinationtraining deliveryproactive managementadaptabilityexecutionorganizational skillsleadership
Certifications
Lean Six SigmaPMPCLOC