Senior UX/UI Designer responsible for design across dashboards and internal tools at an MIT spinoff in traffic safety. Collaborating with Product and Engineering to deliver intuitive user experiences.
About the role
- Design Systems lead optimizing end-to-end design workflows at Instacart. Collaborate with engineering and design teams for a seamless UX experience.
Responsibilities
- Drive the design system roadmap: prioritize based on product needs, system health, and adoption friction.
- Demonstrated ability to set a clear, forward‑looking vision for design system evolution and drive stakeholder alignment.
- Define and evolve component and pattern UX: anatomy, interaction states, responsive behavior, motion, and accessibility defaults.
- Lead token strategy (primitive + semantic): semantics, theming, density, and scalable extensibility across products.
- Establish and maintain system governance: contribution standards, quality bar, review process, versioning, deprecations, and migration plans.
- Partner with design technologists, engineers and product design teams to ensure design-to-code fidelity, consistent component APIs, and minimal system drift.
- Ensure high-quality standards of implementation-aware specs (not just visuals): edge cases, constraints, usage guidance, and acceptance criteria.
- Collaborate with Design Technologists to translate system guidance into in-tool guardrails (linting, templates, plugin experiences).
- Help define the system’s structured knowledge model (rules, constraints, do/don’t, examples) so it can power automation and AI-assisted support.
- Identify design enablement workflow opportunities and prioritize enablement opportunities that reduce rework and raise consistency.
- Establish strong governance and lifecycle management: contribution standards, quality bars, review processes, versioning, deprecations, and clear migration plans to reduce system drift.
- Measure adoption and impact, identify workflow friction, and execute enablement programs that reduce rework, raise consistency, and accelerate safe system evolution.
- Use AI tools intentionally to streamline system work (e.g., audits, migration planning, consistency checks, spec generation, change summaries).
- Contribute to AI-assisted workflows that reduce system toil and help teams adopt changes safely.
- Proactive mindset learning and working with AI-prototyping tools and design enablement processes.
Requirements
- 6+ years in product design (or equivalent) with proven experience shipping and maintaining a design system used by multiple teams.
- Strong design fundamentals: interaction design, visual systems, hierarchy, and responsive patterns.
- Design systems mastery: components, patterns, tokens, governance, adoption, systems-thinking, documentation, and cross-platform consistency.
- Technical fluency: able to collaborate in component-based workflows (e.g., Storybook or equivalent) and understand how implementation constraints shape UX.
- Strong accessibility competency applied to systems (WCAG compliance, etc).
- Demonstrated use of AI/automation to improve speed and quality (not just ideation, real workflow impact).
- Experience with token pipelines (CSS variables, semantic token architectures, token tooling).
- Experience driving adoption through metrics, migrations, and enablement programs.
- 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 in each location where our employees work.
- This role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants.
- Review our Flex First remote work policy.
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