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What Success Looks Like
- Experiences feel cohesive, consistent, and connected to a clear and differentiated design language.
- The design language evolves through product work, with new components and patterns integrated without fragmentation.
- Product teams move faster and produce higher quality work through your support.
- You raise the bar for visual craft and interaction quality across teams.
- You act as an accelerant, improving both speed and clarity of execution.
- The work you contribute to drives measurable impact on adoption, engagement, and retention.
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- 15+ years designing consumer-facing digital products across web and mobile, with a portfolio demonstrating complex, multi-step transactional journeys and system-level thinking across high-density catalog surfaces.
- Deep experience in systems thinking with experience working on or closely with design language systems or foundations teams, with the ability to translate system principles into real product experiences.
- Exceptional visual design and UI craft, with a strong sense of taste and attention to detail, and experience defining or evolving design language systems in high quality consumer products.
- Experience working in an agency or client-facing environment, with a proven ability to navigate multiple stakeholders, translate briefs into high-quality design work, and deliver under real-world constraints.
- Strong point of view on visual systems, interaction patterns, and how design language creates differentiation and emotional resonance.
- Experience operating as a bridge across product and systems, helping teams explore new ideas while maintaining cohesion and scalability.
- Proven track record of navigating ambiguity and influencing across multi-team environments, connecting fragmented efforts into cohesive strategies and outcomes.
- Comfortable embedding within product teams while maintaining accountability to broader system integrity.
- Experience using interactive, end to end experiences, not just static designs, as a primary tool for storytelling, alignment, and decision making.
- Strong communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to influence direction and align cross functional teams.
- Fluent in Figma and Google Slides, using them to communicate ideas clearly and drive alignment.
- Base knowledge of emerging AI tools with a strong interest and comfort experimenting with new methods on a daily basis. The team is primarily leveraging Claude with an active Design Lab that experiments with additional tools ranging from motion design, image creation and code driven design prototypes.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing for e-commerce, grocery, or marketplace products where item discovery, real-time availability, and transactional confidence are central to the customer experience.
- Familiarity with domains such as meal planning, nutrition, health goals, and personalization, and how they intersect with household grocery behavior.
- Experience designing high-visibility, content-rich surfaces such as search results, browse grids, and item detail pages, with a strong point of view on hierarchy, density, and visual clarity at scale.
- Experience working within and evolving large scale design systems, ensuring new components and patterns align to system principles while elevating overall craft and cohesion.
- Comfort operating across distributed, cross functional teams, influencing multi-team initiatives and connecting work into cohesive, system-level outcomes without direct authority.
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Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here. Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.
Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.…
