[Hiring] Senior Product Designer - Manage @Instrumentl

Role Description

We're hiring a Senior Product Designer to own Manage, our post-award product area where $1.1B+ in grant funding is tracked, reported on, and kept compliant.

Grant professionals are doing some of the most important, high-stakes work in the country, and they deserve tools to match it. Until recently, that infrastructure didn't exist. Post-award work happened across a patchwork of spreadsheets, email chains, and disconnected accounting exports, with the grant professional as the middleperson: manually moving information between systems instead of doing the strategic work they were hired to do.

We're building the solution: a single, intelligent platform where every stage of the grant lifecycle connects, and each stage makes the next one smarter. We recently launched Spenddown, enabling nonprofits to see real-time budget vs. actuals tracking synced from accounting systems like Sage Intacct and QuickBooks Online. We're now building toward program financials, cross-functional workflows, reporting functionality, and compliance reviews.

These are meaty, genuinely hard design problems:

• Complex data models
• Multi-stakeholder workflows spanning grant professionals, finance teams, and program staff
• High-stakes compliance contexts where post-award mistakes cost organizations their funding

This product area is still being invented, and the designer who owns it will shape what post-award management looks like for thousands of organizations.

You'll report directly to Hope, Head of Design, and work as a true strategic partner to your PM and engineering lead. This is an IC role with outsized scope, not a feature factory.

The Instrumentl team is remote. You can design from anywhere in the continental U.S. or Canada as long as you have 4+ hours of overlap with the Pacific time zone.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product design experience, with at least 2 years at senior level
• Proven track record owning complex B2B or enterprise product areas end-to-end
• Deep expertise designing data-heavy UIs: financial dashboards, tracking tools, reporting views, or similar
• Strong Figma skills: user flows, wireframes, hi-fi mockups, prototypes, and design systems
• Experience working closely with engineers in a fast-shipping startup environment
• Ability to conduct and synthesize user research independently
• Exceptional communication: present work, defend decisions, and align stakeholders clearly
• Active use of AI tools in your design workflow

Requirements

• Seasoned IC: You've owned entire product domains, not just shipped features. You write your own brief, define the problem, and set the roadmap in partnership with your PM.
• Curious: You are full of questions, and you seek out answers. Deriving insights from deep listening in user interviews is one of your strengths.
• Systems thinker: You've designed for data-dense, multi-entity systems.
• B2B SaaS experience: You've spent meaningful time designing complex software.
• Finance-adjacent experience: You've designed for finance or adjacent domains.
• AI skilled: You're already using AI tools in your design practice.
• Startup background: You have sound intuition and make good calls with incomplete information.
• Strategic partner: You don't just execute a spec; you bring a point of view into the room.

Nice to haves

• Exposure to financial software, accounting tools, compliance workflows, or fund reporting
• Experience designing for nonprofits or social impact
• Design systems experience
• Familiarity with accessibility standards
• Comfort with basic front-end concepts (HTML, CSS) to collaborate closely with engineers
• Experience mentoring other designers

Benefits

• Salary range: $160 - $205k plus equity
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Generous PTO policy, including parental leave
• 401(k)
• Company laptop + stipend to set up your home workstation
• Twice annual retreats for in-person time with your colleagues
• Work with awesome nonprofits around the US.

What to expect

Instrumentl is evolving rapidly. You'll always have new challenges and opportunities to grow — you won't be bored. You'll join a small but mighty design team and take on one of our most strategically critical product areas from day one.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.