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Senior Product Designer – Design Systems
Location
California + 18 moreAll locations: California | Colorado | Connecticut | District Of Columbia | Hawaii | Illinois | Maine | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New York | Oregon | Maryland | Massachusetts | Pennsylvania | Rhode Island | Texas | Vermont | Virginia | Washington
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
$169K - $214K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Product Designer – Design Systems
Instacart
• 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. • Define and evolve system UX: components, patterns, interaction states, responsive behavior, motion, and accessibility defaults that scale across products and platforms. • Lead token strategy end to end (primitive and semantic), including theming, density, and extensibility, and partner with engineering to maintain consistent component APIs. • Establish strong governance and lifecycle management: contribution standards, quality bars, review processes, versioning, deprecations, and clear migration plans to reduce system drift. • 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. • Use AI tools intentionally to streamline audits, consistency checks, migrations, and spec generation; contribute to AI-assisted workflows that help teams adopt changes safely. • Measure adoption and impact, identify workflow friction, and execute enablement programs that reduce rework, raise consistency, and accelerate safe system evolution.
Job Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in product design (or equivalent), including shipping and maintaining a design system adopted by multiple product teams.
- Portfolio showcasing design systems mastery (components, patterns, tokens, governance) and cross-platform consistency; 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.
- Demonstrated use of AI/automation to improve delivery speed and quality for design systems (e.g., audits, migration planning, consistency checks, spec generation).
- 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.
Benefits
- Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work.
- Eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants.
- Review our Flex First remote work policy for details.
- Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills.
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• Own and drive the design system roadmap • Define and evolve system UX: components, patterns, interaction states, responsive behavior, motion, and accessibility defaults • Lead token strategy end to end (primitive and semantic) • Establish strong governance and lifecycle management • Create implementation-aware specs • Build design enablement in context • Use AI tools intentionally to streamline audits • Measure adoption and impact, identify workflow friction


