Sr. Product Designer (L5), Ad Experiences

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