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

The Instacart Design Team is dedicated to making grocery shopping effortless for everyone and finding solutions to large-scale opportunities that will forever change the way people feed themselves and their loved ones.

The Instacart Design System team is highly collaborative and, as a Senior Product Designer, you will work closely with designers, engineers, product managers, and creative to continue building out a robust, reliable, and scalable design system. 

We’re seeking creative problem solvers who love the challenge of creating quality work within a fast-paced, ever-evolving technology startup. 

You know what it takes to keep designers – and engineers – engaged and motivated by a design system. You're able to see how their contributions connect to the bigger picture – the company, and beyond to our end users. 

You know that our success hinges upon the success of the team and you’re passionate and proactive about encouraging them, coaching them, and offering constructive feedback.

ABOUT THE JOB

We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer who will help shape and evolve our design system for digital products, while maintaining a balance in our multi-sided marketplace ecosystem. We believe that a design system should emerge from the needs of our teams and are looking for a systems designer excited to put their users first.

As a craft leader, you'll be responsible for contributing to the strategy and vision, as well as the day-to-day design and execution of the design system. To be successful, you will have to balance two key sides of this role: stakeholder management and systems design work. 

In your day to day you will be expected to teach and advocate for best practices, actively gather user feedback, support designers and developers using – and contributing to – the system, mentor designers, and communicate system updates. You will also be proactive in spearheading new initiatives, designing and documenting components, and overseeing component implementation.

ABOUT YOU

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• 6+ years of experience in digital product design and/or service design 
• 1+ years of experience working on design systems for digital products
• Pride yourself on unparalleled collaboration and communication skills and you look forward to partnering with PMs, engineers, designers to create beautiful products in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to communicate and present ideas clearly and influence key stakeholders at the manager, director, and VP level
• Good understanding and proved experience applying WCAG Accessibility standards
• Familiarity with front-end programming – HTML, CSS, JavaScript frameworks, and/or native platform languages
• Reliable self-starter who can provide leadership to multiple projects with minimal oversight
• Systems thinking mindset to design scalable solutions for the entire product process – from user flows to interactions at a granular level
• Embrace constructive feedback as part of the iterative design process and can clearly articulate your design decisions
• You are always willing to roll up your sleeves and chip in to help move a project forward – you like to move quickly and drive towards impact

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with motion design and animation
• Experience with design systems in Figma
• Experience in brand design

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Accommodations & Accessibility

At Instacart, we strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates. If you need assistance submitting an application through our career site due to a disability, please submit an Accommodations Request Form and someone from our team will reach out soon to see how we may be able to assist.