Product Designer II - Consumer

We're transforming the grocery industry

At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.

Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.

Instacart is a Flex First team

There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our 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. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.

Overview

Instacart’s Core Shopping + Enterprise design team builds the end-to-end experiences that help customers discover, shop, and check out with confidence—while also empowering our top retail partners with enterprise-grade capabilities. As a Product Designer on this team you'll be designing experiences used by millions of customers every week—work that directly impacts how families eat, save time, and live better.

In this role, you'll collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, data scientists, user researchers, and content designers to solve customer problems and elevate the craft and quality of Instacart's most visible, high-impact experiences—the ones that define how millions of people shop for groceries every week. You’ll move fluidly from concept to craft—framing problems, exploring multiple approaches, and shipping thoughtfully designed solutions at scale.

Our Instacart Design Team is an innovative and collaborative group of Product Designers, Content Designers, Researchers, and Program Managers. United by a passion for design excellence, we are committed to making grocery shopping as seamless and effortless as possible. We distinguish ourselves by delivering extraordinary results in ordinary tasks, always driven by curiosity, empathy, and creativity in our pursuit of excellence.

About the Job

Own end-to-end design for Instacart's most critical customer experiences—the core shopping flows that millions rely on daily—from discovery and definition through polished visuals, specs, and launch.

Elevate visual and interaction quality across key flows (e.g., browse, search, cart, checkout) by refining patterns, simplifying complexity, and raising the bar on craft.

Partner with PM, Eng, DS, Research, and Content to define problems, explore solutions, run experiments, and iterate quickly based on qualitative and quantitative insights.

Create high-fidelity designs, interactive prototypes, and production-ready specs in Figma; contribute to and extend component-based design systems across platforms.

Create and present compelling ideas that showcase improvements to top customer problems with innovative solutions, blending data-driven insights with impactful storytelling to engage and inspire our customers.

Collaborate with external retail partners and internal enterprise teams to design co-branded or partner-integrated experiences that meet shared goals and constraints.

Advocate for customer needs while balancing business objectives, technical feasibility, and speed—thriving in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment.

About You

Minimum Qualifications

You have 3+ years of experience in digital product design, preferably in consumer products or at an agency

Comfortable collaborating closely with product and engineering partners to define scope, align on trade-offs, and ship high-quality, user-centered design solutions

You've thrived in iterative environments using experimentation, A/B testing, and data-driven decision-making—and know how to balance moving quickly with maintaining design quality

Exceptional communication skills, excelling in cross-functional collaboration to address and solve complex challenges

Proficient in maintaining comprehensive design documentation, ensuring smooth collaboration in both synchronous and asynchronous remote work environments

Strong portfolio showcasing your problem solving skills, a high level of craft and quality exemplifying a high caliber of design; you MUST provide a link to your portfolio (and password if applicable) to be considered for this role

Preferred Qualifications

Experience collaborating with external partners and/or working within an agency or enterprise partner ecosystem.

Background in e-commerce, marketplaces, or complex, multi-stakeholder systems (e.g., checkout, promotions, catalog, or fulfillment flows).

Experience working with motion design and animation, especially for prototypes for presentations or user research

#LI-Remote

Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here.

Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.

For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.

CA, NY, CT, NJ$149,000—$157,000 USDWA$142,000—$150,000 USDOR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI$136,000—$143,500 USDAll other states$124,000—$131,000 USD