Knowledge Strategist Team Lead, Governance

About the Role -

As a Knowledge Strategist Team Lead, Governance at Instacart, you will lead the Governance group within the Knowledge Strategy team. You will establish and maintain content standards for readability and AI retrieval, own the team's auditing function, and spearhead high-impact internal projects that advance our knowledge infrastructure. You will directly manage 2+ Knowledge Strategists and serve as the team's primary owner of triage, prioritization, and deadline accountability.

This role demands both strategic vision and operational precision. You will be equally comfortable defining a governance framework and rolling up your sleeves to see it through — with deep expertise in how structured knowledge powers contact center AI tools. You are a team leader: mentoring your pod, influencing cross-functional partners, and keeping quality high in a fast-paced environment.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience & Context: 4+ years of experience in knowledge strategy within a high-volume customer support organization.
• Strategic Process Optimization: Proven ability to identify, articulate, and resolve end-to-end operational inefficiencies, driving practical and scalable optimization with limited supervision.
• Systems & Tools: Robust, hands-on understanding of contact center and CRM systems (e.g., Salesforce, Genesys).
• Data-Driven Focus: Advanced ability to interpret and leverage CX metrics (e.g., AHT, FCR) and content metrics (readability, deflection rates) to identify and implement improvements.
• Communication & Advocacy: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex technical processes into clear, accessible documentation for diverse audiences and advocate effectively for the end-user experience across cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering, Legal). Ability to present complex scenarios to executive-level audiences.
• Automation & AI: Experience leveraging AI/automation tools to streamline workflows and generate high-quality content.
• People Lead: Demonstrated ability to lead, mentor, and develop individual contributors.

Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in a tech or startup environment.
• Advanced proficiency in using AI tools to automate processes and generate/review content.
• Experience leading transformational knowledge projects.
• Intermediate proficiency in SQL to query databases and modify dashboards.
• Advanced understanding of change management best practices, to identify optimal approaches to communicate and scale changes to a large user base.
• Deep familiarity with Shopper, Customer, and Retailer contact journeys.
• Experience with structured content authoring and AI knowledge retrieval optimization (e.g., for chatbot or copilot surfaces).
• Experience managing knowledge infrastructure migrations across platforms.

#LI-Remote

Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here. Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.

Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.…