Sr. Product Designer (L5), Ad Experiences

We're transforming the grocery industry

At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.

Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.

Instacart is a Flex First team

There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.

Overview

About the Role

At Instacart, we recognize that food is more than just sustenance—it's part of daily rituals and meaningful moments. As a Sr. Product Designer, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping world-class advertising experiences that connect customers with the brands they love. You'll transform high-level requirements into beautiful, intuitive designs, addressing complex problems with polished solutions. Utilizing a broad range of design skills, you'll craft experiences that delight our customers, shoppers, and retailers. Collaboration with research, product, data science, engineering, and content strategy teams will drive end-to-end solutions that are functional, usable, and lovable.

About the Team

Join the Instacart Design Team, where we're devoted to making grocery shopping seamless and effortless. We're tackling large-scale challenges that will revolutionize how people nourish themselves and their families. Together, we're pioneering how sustenance is acquired and enjoyed by all.

About the Job

• Design intuitive user interfaces and experiences for our advertising platform
• Translate high-level concepts into functional user interfaces
• Solve complex problems with creative solutions
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify new opportunities, create and test concepts
• Deliver end-to-end solutions that are delightful and impactful
• Develop and utilize design systems in Figma
• Enhance visual design whilst ensuring WCAG accessibility standards
• Conduct basic research and define user challenges
• Partner closely with PMs, engineers, and other designers in a fast-paced environment
• Communicate design rationale effectively and contribute storytelling skills to project presentations

About You

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in digital product design, preferably in consumer products or advertising
• You have experience working with design systems on Figma
• You have strong visual design craftsmanship and good understanding of WCAG accessibility standards
• You can conduct basic research, define challenges for the user, and design solutions in the form of user flows
• You pride yourself on unparalleled collaboration and communication skills and you look forward to partnering with PMs, engineers, designers to create beautiful products in a fast-paced, constantly evolving Consumer facing environment
• You can build a strong rationale for design decisions and articulate perspective to the team
• You are an excellent storyteller and communicator
• 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
• You are able to operate with minimal oversight
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with motion design and animation, especially for prototypes for presentations or user research
• Experience designing past consumer facing ad experiences, especially ones with video or interactive experiences

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.

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.

For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.