Instacart

Sr. Product Designer II - Design Systems

United States - Remote · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$203k-$214kDetected 27 days ago

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About the role

Define and evolve system UX: components, patterns, interaction states, responsive behavior, motion, and accessibility defaults that scale across products and platforms.
Establish strong governance and lifecycle management: contribution standards, quality bars, review processes, versioning, deprecations, and clear migration plans to reduce system drift.
Use AI tools intentionally to streamline audits, consistency checks, migrations, and spec generation; contribute to AI-assisted workflows that help teams adopt changes safely.

Lead token strategy end to end (primitive and semantic), including theming, density, and extensibility, and partner with engineering to maintain consistent component APIs.
Create implementation-aware specs with edge cases, constraints, usage guidance, and acceptance criteria; collaborate in component-based workflows (e.g., Figma libraries, Storybook) to ensure design-to-code fidelity.
Build design enablement in context-linting rules, templates, and plugin experiences-supported by a structured knowledge model (rules, constraints, examples) that powers automation and AI-assisted support.

6+ years of experience in product design (or equivalent), including shipping and maintaining a design system adopted by multiple product teams.
portfolio link required.
Technical fluency collaborating in component-based workflows (e.g., Figma component libraries and Storybook or equivalent) with a strong understanding of how implementation constraints shape UX.
Hands-on experience with token pipelines and tooling (e.g., CSS variables, semantic token architectures) and writing implementation-aware specs with acceptance criteria.
Proven accessibility competency applied to systems (e.g., WCAG 2.1 AA) with accessible defaults and patterns.
Experience driving system adoption through metrics, deprecation/migration programs, and cross-functional enablement.
Bachelor's degree in Design, HCI, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Experience with AI-assisted coding and design environments (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code) and building Figma plugins or linting/guardrail tooling.
Track record implementing scalable theming, density, and semantic token strategies across multiple products or platforms.
Data fluency leveraging telemetry, adoption metrics, and experiments to inform system roadmap and deprecation strategies.
Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role.
For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
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Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work.

Own and drive the design system roadmap-prioritizing by product needs, system health, and adoption friction-while aligning stakeholders on a clear, forward-looking vision.

We're looking for a design-first, technically fluent product designer to lead the evolution of our design system as a product-raising quality, usability, scalability, and adoption across multiple product surfaces.
You'll collaborate with an 8-person foundations team and cross-functional partners to unlock velocity and consistency for product teams serving millions of customers.

This listing is sourced directly from Instacart's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.