Senior Product Designer - Manage

About the role

We're hiring a Senior Product Designer to own Manage, our post-award product area where $1.1B+ in grant funding is tracked, reported on, and kept compliant.

Grant professionals are doing some of the most important, high-stakes work in the country, and they deserve tools to match it. Until recently, that infrastructure didn't exist. Post-award work happened across a patchwork of spreadsheets, email chains, and disconnected accounting exports, with the grant professional as the middleperson: manually moving information between systems instead of doing the strategic work they were hired to do.

We're building the solution: a single, intelligent platform where every stage of the grant lifecycle connects, and each stage makes the next one smarter. We recently launched Spenddown, enabling nonprofits to see real-time budget vs. actuals tracking synced from accounting systems like Sage Intacct and QuickBooks Online. We're now building toward program financials, cross-functional workflows, reporting functionality, and compliance reviews.

These are meaty, genuinely hard design problems: complex data models, multi-stakeholder workflows spanning grant professionals, finance teams, and program staff, and high-stakes compliance contexts where post-award mistakes cost organizations their funding. This product area is still being invented, and the designer who owns it will shape what post-award management looks like for thousands of organizations.

You'll report directly to Hope, Head of Design, and work as a true strategic partner to your PM and engineering lead. This is an IC role with outsized scope, not a feature factory.

What you'll own

• Lead end-to-end design for the Manage product area: discovery and research through shipping and iteration
• Shape how financial data is visualized and surfaced (budget vs. actuals, burn rates, variance flags, forecast views, just to name a few) for people who are not accountants
• Design complex, multi-stakeholder workflows for cross-team collaboration
• Envision AI-powered features to free up grant professionals' time and increase compliance
• Drive definition of completely greenfield spaces
• Raise the quality bar across Instrumentl's design system

What you bring

• Seasoned IC: You've owned entire product domains, not just shipped features. You write your own brief, define the problem, and set the roadmap in partnership with your PM.
• Curious: You are full of questions, and you seek out answers. Deriving insights from deep listening in user interviews is one of your strengths. You connect with others easily and have a knack for identifying patterns.
• Systems thinker: You've designed for data-dense, multi-entity systems: financial dashboards, ops tracking tools, reporting workflows, or similar. You know how to cut through complexity until it feels intuitive.
• B2B SaaS experience: You've spent meaningful time designing complex software.