Top row, left to right: Chris Rogers, Mark Schaaf, Varouj Chitilian. Bottom row, left to right: JJ Zhuang, Laura Jones, Daniel Danker.
Instacart has announced key leadership changes pertaining to all of its North American operations.
Chris Rogers will be taking on the expanded role of chief business officer, continuing to oversee all retail functions and taking on leadership of the brand partnerships team. Rogers held the role of vice president of retail for the past three years. Rogers’ leadership has allowed Instacart to build meaningful relationships with new partners and significantly expand our work with a number of the top grocers in North America.
Chief technology officer, Mark Schaaf, will be stepping away from his role. Instacart’s vice president of engineering, Varouj Chitilian, will be assuming the role of chief technology officer. Since joining the company nearly four years ago, Chitilian has led the engineering team through a number of Instacart’s most significant technical milestones, including scaling its app and site capabilities as online grocery adoption rapidly accelerated alongside the pandemic.
JJ Zhuang will be taking on the newly-created role of chief architect. In this expanded role, Zhuang will drive technology and architecture decisions across all Instacart product pillars, and ensure engineering investment is best aligned with long term business strategy. Zhuang is a veteran engineering leader here at Instacart who has served in key leadership roles as vice president of fulfillment, and most recently, head of infrastructure.
Daniel Danker has been promoted to chief product officer and Laura Jones has been promoted to chief marketing officer. Both joined the company in 2021, and since then, have driven significant growth and strategic alignment for the company and evolved our role in the industry.
