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.
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).
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