Instacart

For its Associate Product Manager (APM) program, Instacart describes the loop as four stages: an online application, a take-home product challenge for shortlisted candidates, a series of virtual interviews covering product sense, execution and behavioural content, and a final decision. The take-home runs before any live interview, so a candidate puts product work in to earn an interview slot. Combined with a roughly two-week application window in March and an early-August program start, the cycle is compressed and front-loaded: candidates are working the product challenge in parallel with whatever else they have running through spring recruiting.

Instacart's published early-career program is its Associate Product Manager (APM) program: an 18-month rotational program across two rotations, aimed at recent graduates, aspiring product managers, or those making a career switch. The program is remote-first across the US and Canada, with optional hybrid on-site work for those near the San Francisco, New York City or Toronto offices. For functions outside product — engineering, data science, marketing — Instacart's careers site lists individual openings rather than a named cohort program, so a non-product applicant is evaluating standard postings rather than a structured rotational track.

Instacart's APM cohort runs across two rotations spanning what the firm calls its four-sided marketplace — customers, shoppers, retailers and advertisers — so a single APM ships product across both consumer-facing and B2B sides of the business inside the same 18-month program. The rotational structure is paired with a remote-first US / Canada footprint, so geography is not a gate the way it is at PM programs anchored to a single hub. For a candidate weighing APM offers, the specific combination here is a marketplace with consumer, retailer-facing and ads surfaces under one cohort program, run remotely; it sits in a different shape than single-product or hub-anchored APM tracks at adjacent firms.

Not right now. Instacart has no internship or graduate roles listed today; new postings appear here as the firm opens them.

Applications to Instacart go through the firm's own careers site, one application per posting, each expecting a CV and cover letter written for that role.