[Hiring] Staff Product Designer - Shopping Experiences @Instacart

Role Description

The Instacart Design Team is dedicated to making grocery shopping effortless for everyone, finding solutions to large-scale opportunities that will forever change the way people feed themselves and their loved ones. We're hiring a Staff Product Designer to elevate the end-to-end experience across Instacart's Core Shopping ecosystem.

• Embed within Core Shopping workstreams including browse, search, item detail, cart, and checkout to elevate visual and interaction quality.
• Act as a bridge between product teams and the design language system.
• Partner with product designers to explore and develop new interaction patterns, modules, and components.
• Evolve the design language through product work.
• Define and refine UI components, layouts, and patterns with a high level of craft.
• Set a high bar for visual quality and interaction design.
• Drive cohesion, continuity, and consistency across end-to-end journeys.
• Accelerate the team with reusable flows, templates, and code-adjacent prototypes.
• Lead high-impact initiatives end to end when needed.
• Introduce and evolve new ways of working across design, product, and engineering.
• Apply modern AI tools in daily workflows.

Qualifications

• 15+ years designing consumer-facing digital products across web and mobile.
• Deep experience in systems thinking with experience working on design language systems.
• Exceptional visual design and UI craft.
• Experience working in an agency or client-facing environment.
• Strong point of view on visual systems and interaction patterns.
• Proven track record of navigating ambiguity and influencing across multi-team environments.
• Comfortable embedding within product teams while maintaining accountability to broader system integrity.
• Strong communication and storytelling skills.
• Fluent in Figma and Google Slides.
• Base knowledge of emerging AI tools.

Requirements

• Experience designing for e-commerce, grocery, or marketplace products.
• Familiarity with domains such as meal planning, nutrition, and personalization.
• Experience designing high-visibility, content-rich surfaces.
• Experience working within and evolving large scale design systems.
• Comfort operating across distributed, cross functional teams.

Benefits

• Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits.
• Remote work flexibility.
• New hire equity grant and annual refresh grants.

Company Description

Instacart invites the world to share love through food, believing everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward.