Senior Product Designer – Design Systems

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About the role

  • Senior Product Designer driving design system evolution for Instacart's customer and shopper tools. Collaborating with engineering and design teams to ensure product user experience and adoption.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$171,000 - CA$180,500 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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