Staff Product Designer defining GrantOS systems for Instrumentl’s nonprofit grant-management SaaS platform. Shaping data, permissions, integrations, research, and zero-to-one product direction.
Responsibilities
Own end-to-end design for GrantOS across Platform, Core, and enterprise, from discovery through ship and iteration
Define data relationships, permission models, and integration surfaces across product workflows
Set interaction patterns and design system foundations inherited by other product areas
Design connections across pods so changes make subsequent workflows smarter
Drive definition in greenfield, zero-to-one product spaces
Write briefs, frame problems, and set roadmap direction with the PM
Make decisions with incomplete information and sequence work for rapid learning
Shape how grant professionals manage tasks, reporting, and integrations across the grant lifecycle
Recruit participants, conduct interviews, and synthesize user needs into product direction
Advocate for users and challenge unsuitable product decisions
Align engineering, product, and GTM on direction across the company
Raise design quality and coach other designers
Report to the Head of Design
Requirements
10+ years of product design experience with meaningful time at staff or principal level, having owned entire product domains rather than features inside them
Proven end-to-end ownership of a platform or core product area in complex B2B or enterprise SaaS: data models, permissions, integration surfaces, and patterns that other teams build on top of
Shipped net-new product work alongside platform work, including 0-to-1 areas helped define rather than received as a finished spec
Deep involvement in user research end to end, from planning and recruiting through synthesis into product decisions
Experience designing agentic or AI-powered product surfaces
Design systems experience where you defined the patterns, not only used them
Prototyping with AI tools, for example building working prototypes in Claude or Cursor that engineers can build from
Exposure to compliance, data integrity, or workflow-heavy domains
Startup experience where process was lightweight and you brought your own structure
Experience mentoring or coaching other designers
Familiarity with the nonprofit or social impact sector
Benefits
100% covered health, dental, and vision insurance for employees (50% for dependents)
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