Senior Product Designer, Design Systems
OVERVIEW
Every year, people across the world spend nearly one trillion dollars on groceries. It’s an industry that’s been around for centuries. Food itself, however, has been a constant in people’s lives since the beginning of time. Yes, sustenance is essential, but it’s also much more than that. Food can be a part of a daily ritual or a special moment that resonates with people on a meaningful and emotional level. It can be a much-needed break in a long day, a taste that brings back memories, a creative experiment, a shared meal with loved ones, or even comfort during a hard time. Whether it’s a special occasion or an everyday occurrence, it should always be easy for people to get the ingredients they need.
The Instacart Design Team is dedicated to making grocery shopping effortless for everyone and finding solutions to large-scale challenges that will forever change the way people feed themselves and their loved ones.
We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer who will help craft and build our Design System for our product teams while maintaining a balance in our 4-sided marketplace ecosystem. We believe that a design system should emerge from the needs of our teams, and are looking for a design systems designer excited to put their users first.
The Design Systems team is highly collaborative, and as a Designer on the team you will work closely with product designers, engineers, product managers, and brand designers to build out a robust and reliable design system. You'll be responsible for contributing to the strategy and vision as well as the design and execution of the design system day-to-day. This includes teaching and advocating for best practices, capturing user feedback, supporting designers and developers using the system, mentoring other designers, orchestrating new initiatives, systems component design, and being responsible for component implementation. We need someone who loves the challenge of crafting quality work within a fast-paced, ever-evolving technology startup. You know what it takes to keep a design team engaged and motivated by a design system, and able to see how their individual contributions connect to the bigger picture – the company, and beyond to our end users. You know that our success hinges upon the success of the team, and you’re passionate and proactive about encouraging them, mentoring them, and offering constructive feedback.
ABOUT YOU
- 6+ years of experience in digital product design and/or service design
- 1+ years of working on product Design systems
- Pride yourself on unparalleled collaboration and communication skills and you look forward to partnering with PMs, engineers, and designers to build beautiful products in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment
- Have familiarity with front-end programming. (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, and/or native platform languages)
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to communicate and present ideas clearly
- Reliable self-starter who can provide leadership to multiple projects with minimal oversight
- Design for the entire product process from flows to interactions at a granular level.
- Embrace constructive feedback as part of the iterative design process and can clearly articulate your design decisions
- You are always willing to roll up your sleeves and chip in to help move a project forward, you like to move quickly, and drive towards impact
NICE TO HAVE
- Experience with motion design and animation
- Experience designing systems in Figma
- Brand design experience