Senior Product Designer – Design Systems

🕒 June 24

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Instacart

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

🍽️ Food & Beverage

📦 Logistics

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 $232M Venture Round on 2021-11

Food & Beverage • Logistics • eCommerce

Instacart is a company that offers a flexible approach to work while transforming the grocery industry. It provides an essential service by delivering groceries and household goods to customers' doors in as little as 30 minutes. Instacart offers safe and flexible earning opportunities to personal shoppers and tackles challenges such as rerouting deliveries during snowstorms and connecting customers with coupons and deals. It aims to be the operating system for the grocery industry, thus helping customers save time for other activities. Instacart emphasizes diversity, equity, and belonging in its work culture.

📋 Description

• Own and drive the design system roadmap • Define and evolve system UX: components, patterns, interaction states, responsive behavior, motion, and accessibility defaults • Lead token strategy end to end (primitive and semantic) • Establish strong governance and lifecycle management • Create implementation-aware specs • Build design enablement in context • Use AI tools intentionally to streamline audits • Measure adoption and impact, identify workflow friction

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in product design (or equivalent) • Portfolio showcasing design systems mastery (components, patterns, tokens, governance) • Technical fluency collaborating in component-based workflows (e.g., Figma component libraries and Storybook) • Hands-on experience with token pipelines and tooling (e.g., CSS variables, semantic token architectures) • Proven accessibility competency applied to systems (e.g., WCAG 2.1 AA) • Demonstrated use of AI/automation to improve delivery speed and quality for design systems • Experience driving system adoption through metrics, deprecation/migration programs, and cross-functional enablement • Bachelor’s degree in Design, HCI, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

🏖️ Benefits

• Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits • Potential for a new hire equity grant • Annual refresh grants