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Sr. Product Designer II - Design Systems

1 month, 2 weeks ago
United States
Full-time
Senior
Product Designer (UI/UX)
Design and User Experience
Design Systems Figma Storybook
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instacart.careers

Instacart is a leading grocery technology company in North America that works with grocers and retailers to transform how people shop. They partner with over 1,000 national, regional, and local retail banners to facilitate online shopping, delivery, an...

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Description

  • Own and drive the design system roadmap by prioritizing product needs, system health, and adoption friction.
  • Define and evolve system UX, including components, patterns, interaction states, responsive behavior, motion, and accessibility defaults.
  • Lead token strategy end to end, including primitive and semantic tokens, theming, density, extensibility, and component API consistency.
  • Establish governance and lifecycle management standards, including contribution rules, quality bars, reviews, versioning, deprecations, and migration plans.
  • Create implementation-aware specs with edge cases, constraints, usage guidance, and acceptance criteria.
  • Collaborate in component-based workflows such as Figma libraries and Storybook to ensure design-to-code fidelity.
  • Build design enablement tools and workflows such as linting rules, templates, plugin experiences, and structured knowledge models.
  • Use AI tools to streamline audits, consistency checks, migrations, and spec generation.
  • Measure adoption and impact, identify workflow friction, and run enablement programs that improve consistency and reduce rework.
  • Partner closely with engineering, design technologists, and cross-functional stakeholders to support system adoption across product teams.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in product design or an equivalent role.
  • Experience shipping and maintaining a design system used by multiple product teams.
  • A portfolio demonstrating design systems expertise, cross-platform consistency, and a portfolio link is required.
  • Technical fluency with component-based workflows such as Figma component libraries and Storybook or equivalent.
  • Hands-on experience with token pipelines and tooling such as CSS variables and semantic token architectures.
  • Experience writing implementation-aware specs with acceptance criteria.
  • Proven accessibility experience for systems, including WCAG 2.1 AA and accessible defaults.
  • Demonstrated use of AI or automation to improve speed and quality for design systems work.
  • Experience driving adoption through metrics, deprecation and migration programs, and cross-functional enablement.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Design, HCI, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Preferred: Experience with AI-assisted coding and design tools such as Cursor or Claude Code.
  • Preferred: Experience building Figma plugins or linting and guardrail tooling.
  • Preferred: Track record implementing scalable theming, density, and semantic token strategies across multiple products or platforms.
  • Preferred: Experience facilitating design sprints, co-creation workshops, or governance reviews.
  • Preferred: Data fluency using telemetry, adoption metrics, and experiments to inform roadmap decisions and deprecations.
  • Preferred: Familiarity with versioned monorepos or multi-package design system releases and migration planning.

Benefits

  • Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits.
  • Remote work with a Flex First policy.
  • Eligibility for a new hire equity grant.
  • Eligibility for annual refresh grants.
  • Base pay range of $203,000-$214,000 USD in CA, NY, CT, and NJ.
  • Base pay range of $194,000-$205,000 USD in WA.
  • Base pay range of $185,000-$195,500 USD in OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, and HI.
  • Base pay range of $169,000-$178,500 USD in all other U.S. states.

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