Senior Product Designer

About the role

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, and 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. As a close-knit team, we want to have (virtual) face time with you and watch your cat roam in the background. We can't wait to meet you!

What you'll do

Product Design & Ownership

• Lead end-to-end design for the Manage product area: discovery and research through shipping and iteration
• Shape how financial data is visualized for non-accountants: budget vs. actuals, burn rates, variance flags, and forecast views
• Design complex, multi-stakeholder workflows for cross-team collaboration across grant professionals, finance teams, and program staff
• Drive definition of completely greenfield spaces where the infrastructure is still being invented

AI & Systems Thinking

• Envision and design AI-powered features that free up grant professionals’ time and increase compliance
• Bring systems thinking to data-dense, multi-entity problems: cut through complexity until it feels intuitive
• Use AI tools actively in your design practice: prototyping, iteration, and thinking seriously about how AI advances product development

Design Quality & Collaboration

• Raise the quality bar across Instrumentl’s design system
• Bring point of view into the room, push back when something isn’t right for users, and drive alignment across engineering, product, and GTM
• Conduct and synthesize user research independently to surface insights and patterns

What we're looking for

Required

• 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
• Active use of AI tools in your design workflow

Nice to Have

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