# Sr. Product Designer II - Design Systems

**Company:** [Instacart](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/instacart)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Product Design
**Salary:** $169k – $214k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Figma, Storybook, Design Systems, Design Tokens, Css Variables, Wcag, Accessibility, AI Tools, Component Libraries, Figma Plugins
**Posted:** 2026-06-24

> Lead the evolution of Instacart's design system as a product, owning roadmap, governance, tokens, and cross-platform consistency. Partner with engineering to ensure design-to-code fidelity and drive adoption across multiple product teams.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- 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.

## 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.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with AI-assisted coding and design environments (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code) and building Figma plugins or linting/guardrail tooling.
- Track record implementing scalable theming, density, and semantic token strategies across multiple products or platforms.
- Experience facilitating design sprints, co-creation workshops, or component governance reviews with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Data fluency leveraging telemetry, adoption metrics, and experiments to inform system roadmap and deprecation strategies.
- Familiarity with versioned monorepos or multi-package design system releases, including change management and migration planning.

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