About the role

  • Product Designer II at Instacart, designing core shopping experiences relied on by millions. Collaborating with various teams to elevate design quality and solve customer problems.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end design for Instacart's most critical customer experiences—the core shopping flows that millions rely on daily—from discovery and definition through polished visuals, specs, and launch.
  • Elevate visual and interaction quality across key flows (e.g., browse, search, cart, checkout) by refining patterns, simplifying complexity, and raising the bar on craft.
  • Partner with PM, Eng, DS, Research, and Content to define problems, explore solutions, run experiments, and iterate quickly based on qualitative and quantitative insights.
  • Create high-fidelity designs, interactive prototypes, and production-ready specs in Figma; contribute to and extend component-based design systems across platforms.
  • Create and present compelling ideas that showcase improvements to top customer problems with innovative solutions, blending data-driven insights with impactful storytelling to engage and inspire our customers.
  • Collaborate with external retail partners and internal enterprise teams to design co-branded or partner-integrated experiences that meet shared goals and constraints.
  • Advocate for customer needs while balancing business objectives, technical feasibility, and speed—thriving in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in digital product design, preferably in consumer products or at an agency
  • Comfortable collaborating closely with product and engineering partners to define scope, align on trade-offs, and ship high-quality, user-centered design solutions
  • You've thrived in iterative environments using experimentation, A/B testing, and data-driven decision-making—and know how to balance moving quickly with maintaining design quality
  • Exceptional communication skills, excelling in cross-functional collaboration to address and solve complex challenges
  • Proficient in maintaining comprehensive design documentation, ensuring smooth collaboration in both synchronous and asynchronous remote work environments
  • Strong portfolio showcasing your problem solving skills, a high level of craft and quality exemplifying a high caliber of design; you MUST provide a link to your portfolio (and password if applicable) to be considered for this role.

Benefits

  • Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits
  • New hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants
  • Professional development opportunities

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

CA$124,000 - CA$131,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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