[Remote] Staff Product Designer - Shopping Experiences

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Instacart is transforming the grocery industry by making grocery shopping effortless for everyone. They are seeking a Staff Product Designer to elevate the end-to-end experience across Instacart's Core Shopping ecosystem, focusing on visual craft and design language while ensuring system integrity across various shopping surfaces.ResponsibilitiesEmbed 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 journeyAct 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 fragmentationPartner with product designers to explore and develop new interaction patterns, modules, and components before scaling them across the system, from real-time availability states to substitution logic to transactional confidence signalsEvolve the design language through product work, shaping components, patterns, and interaction models that scale across surfaces and teamsDefine and refine UI components, layouts, and patterns with a high level of craft, ensuring clarity, hierarchy, and consistency across complex, high-density catalog environmentsSet a high bar for visual quality and interaction design, influencing how interfaces look, feel, and behave across the product, with special attention to how customers perceive trust and ease in transactional momentsDrive cohesion, continuity, and consistency across end-to-end journeys, ensuring experiences feel connected and intuitive from first browse to final checkoutAccelerate the team with reusable flows, templates, and code-adjacent prototypes; partner with engineers to ensure feasible, accessible, and performant implementationsLead high-impact initiatives end to end when needed, from problem framing and exploration through interactive prototyping, delivery, and launch, driving alignment with PM, engineering, data science, and brand partnersIntroduce and evolve new ways of working across design, product, and engineering, using shared artifacts to improve clarity, speed, and alignmentApply modern AI tools in daily workflows and within our internal Design Lab to explore motion, image generation, and code-driven prototypes that unlock new, scalable patternsSkills15+ years designing consumer-facing digital products across web and mobile, with a portfolio demonstrating complex, multi-step transactional journeys and system-level thinking across high-density catalog surfacesDeep experience in systems thinking with experience working on or closely with design language systems or foundations teams, with the ability to translate system principles into real product experiencesExceptional visual design and UI craft, with a strong sense of taste and attention to detail, and experience defining or evolving design language systems in high quality consumer productsExperience working in an agency or client-facing environment, with a proven ability to navigate multiple stakeholders, translate briefs into high-quality design work, and deliver under real-world constraintsStrong point of view on visual systems, interaction patterns, and how design language creates differentiation and emotional resonanceExperience operating as a bridge across product and systems, helping teams explore new ideas while maintaining cohesion and scalabilityProven track record of navigating ambiguity and influencing across multi-team environments, connecting fragmented efforts into cohesive strategies and outcomesComfortable embedding within product teams while maintaining accountability to broader system integrityExperience using interactive, end to end experiences, not just static designs, as a primary tool for storytelling, alignment, and decision makingStrong communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to influence direction and align cross functional teamsFluent in Figma and Google Slides, using them to communicate ideas clearly and drive alignmentBase knowledge of emerging AI tools with a strong interest and comfort experimenting with new methods on a daily basis. The team is primarily leveraging Claude with an active Design Lab that experiments with additional tools ranging from motion design, image creation and code driven design prototypesExperience designing for e-commerce, grocery, or marketplace products where item discovery, real-time availability, and transactional confidence are central to the customer experienceFamiliarity with domains such as meal planning, nutrition, health goals, and personalization, and how they intersect with household grocery behaviorExperience designing high-visibility, content-rich surfaces such as search results, browse grids, and item detail pages, with a strong point of view on hierarchy, density, and visual clarity at scaleExperience working within and evolving large scale design systems, ensuring new components and patterns align to system principles while elevating overall craft and cohesionComfort operating across distributed, cross functional teams, influencing multi-team initiatives and connecting work into cohesive, system-level outcomes without direct authorityBenefitsInstacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work.This role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants.Instacart is a Flex First teamOur 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.Company OverviewInstacart is an online grocery platform that offers same-day delivery and pickup services for retailers and consumers. It was founded in 2012, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.instacart.com.Company H1B SponsorshipInstacart has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 23 in 2026, 152 in 2025, 173 in 2024, 109 in 2023, 159 in 2022, 170 in 2021, 59 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.