Senior Product Designer

Summary

Join Instacart's Shopper design team and contribute to designing experiences for over 600,000 shoppers. As a Product Designer, you will support various shopper teams, focusing on checkout transactions, activations, and appeasements. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to balance business goals and shopper success. The role involves problem-solving, innovation, and communication with various stakeholders. You will utilize and contribute to the Instacart Design System. This remote position offers competitive compensation and benefits, including equity grants and a flexible work environment.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in digital product design, with a proven track record of working across both mobile and web platforms
• Experience supporting multiple teams and/or projects simultaneously, demonstrating strong prioritization and time management abilities
• Expertise in visual design, with a keen attention to detail and a solid grasp of WCAG accessibility standards
• Exceptional communication skills, excelling in cross-functional collaboration to address and solve complex challenges
• 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
• You are able to operate with minimal oversight while driving most team projects as the sole product designer

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional team members on defining problems and uncovering unknown areas to explore
• Solve problems holistically outside of any single project, looking to find opportunities to solve user problems beyond the current roadmap
• Innovate near-term product solutions that not only drive product experimentation but also contribute to the strategic, long-term vision in collaboration with fellow designers
• Tailor communications to a wide variety of stakeholders, including senior leadership, in order to influence decision-making and guiding project direction
• Utilize and contribute to the Instacart Design System to craft designs embodying high standards of visual excellence and intuitive interaction
• Offer feedback, advice, and/or mentorship to peers, including active participation in team critiques to improve the work of others
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously, maintaining clear and consistent communication regarding project status

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with designing products that span multiple product surfaces and/or systems
• Experience creating or contributing to design systems
• Experience working with motion design and animation, especially for prototypes for presentations or user research

Benefits

• Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work
• This role is remote
• This role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants
• CA, NY, CT, NJ $167,000 — $185,000 USD
• WA $160,000 — $178,000 USD
• OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI $153,000 — $170,000 USD
• All other states $139,000 — $154,000 USD