Staff Product Designer - Shopping Experiences
About the role
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, finding solutions to large-scale opportunities that will forever change the way people feed themselves and their loved ones. We're a four-sided marketplace and design for the needs of Consumers, Shoppers, Retailers, and Advertisers. We're hiring a Staff Product Designer to elevate the end-to-end experience across Instacart's Core Shopping ecosystem, the surfaces millions of customers use every day to browse, search, discover, fill their cart, and check out.
This role exists to bridge product design and the design language system, ensuring new ideas evolve and strengthen the living, breathing system rather than fragment it. It places a strong emphasis on visual craft and design language. Key accountabilities include defining and evolving how Instacart's shopping experiences look and feel, shaping a cohesive, high-quality design language through real product work. This includes setting direction and application of new and existing UI patterns, component design, hierarchy, motion, and overall interaction quality across surfaces.
You will primarily operate as a flex designer embedded within Core Shopping work tracks, elevating craft, refining interaction patterns, and ensuring system integrity across browse, search, item detail, cart, and checkout, while stepping in to lead high-impact projects end to end when needed.
About the Job
- Embed within Core Shopping workstreams including browse, search, item detail, cart, and checkout to elevate visual and interaction quality, stewarding patterns that improve clarity, trust, and speed for customers at every step of their journey.
- Act as a bridge between product teams and the design language system, ensuring new components and patterns are thoughtfully explored, validated, and integrated back into the system without fragment