Product Designer
Top Benefits
About the role
Who you are
- You have 3+ years of experience in digital product design, preferably in consumer products or advertising
- Comfortable collaborating closely with product and engineering partners to define scope, align on trade-offs, and ship high-quality, user-centered design solutions
- Demonstrated success with working in iterative environments with experimentation, A/B testing, or data-driven decision-making
- 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
- Experience designing consumer facing ad experiences across different surface types including digital and physical displays, with video and interactive formats
- Experience working with motion design and animation, especially for prototypes for presentations or user research
- Prior agency experience or pitching to external clients
What the job involves
- As a Product Designer II on the Ads team you’ll join a dynamic group helping build relevant and engaging ad experiences across our consumer-facing apps including the Instacart app and in-store Caper Carts
- In this role you’ll explore and prototype delightful product experiences that seamlessly integrate into the shopping experience and drive strong performance for advertisers
- You’ll be responsible for delivering on new ways for customers to interact with brands, bringing a strong user centric mindset that balances advertiser and business goals
- You’ll partner with other designers, user research, and cross-functional partners to evolve our ad experiences to increase customer engagement with personalized and differentiated experiences
- Design and deliver end-to-end solutions for our consumer advertising platform that feel native to the shopping journey, balancing customer intent with the goals for CPG brands and retailers
- Explore complex, ambiguous problem spaces, using data and experimentation to evaluate the performance of ad placements, iterate on relevance, and improve engagement rates
- Collaborate with other consumer facing teams to establish a shared understanding of the problem space, bringing people together to solve complex challenges as well as creating and testing new concepts that are intuitive, delightful, and drive impact
- Create and present compelling ideas that showcase how Instacart’s advertising platform helps brands achieve their goals through innovative solutions, blending data-driven insights with impactful storytelling to engage and inspire advertisers
- Develop and utilize design systems in Figma, enhancing the visual design whilst ensuring WCAG accessibility standards
Benefits
- Wellness Tailored to You: Medical, dental, vision, retirement, life & disability coverage right alongside physical & mental wellness programs, memberships and stipends to keep you and your family feeling your best.
- Family Building Benefits: No matter where you are in your family journey, we support you. Our plans cover modern family planning for all. We offer leave for all parents, flexible working schedules and an active Parents@ community.
- Work From Home Stipend: We help outfit your WFH setup and offer reimbursements so you can be your most productive while at home.
- Flexible Time Off: We all recharge differently. Take the time you need with our flexible time off policy and company-wide Self-Checkouts where we encourage everyone to sign off.
- Learning & Development: Whether you're just starting your career or leading teams, we provide customized L&D programs to help you grow and an annual allowance to pursue your development.
- Future Planning: We have you covered as you plan for your future. 401(k) matching in the US and RRSP in Canada, student loan assistance through Peanut Butter, free Rocket Lawyer membership, SoFi & First Republic financial planning and more.
- Four Year Fill-Up: We encourage our tenured employees to take longer breaks and truly unplug by doing something they love – typically four consecutive weeks around the four year mark.
- Community Connection: Support the communities you care about with volunteer weeks and get involved with our social impact program, Instacart Serves.
- Instacart Express Membership: We help keep your fridge stocked. Unlock grocery discounts with our Instacart Beta app while testing our latest features.
About Instacart
Instacart, the leading grocery technology company in North America, works with grocers and retailers to transform how people shop. The company partners with more than 1,500 national, regional, and local retail banners to facilitate online shopping, delivery and pickup services from more than 85,000 stores across North America on the Instacart Marketplace. Instacart makes it possible for millions of people to get the groceries they need from the retailers they love, and for approximately 600,000 Instacart shoppers to earn by picking, packing and delivering orders on their own flexible schedule. The Instacart Platform offers retailers a suite of enterprise-grade technology products and services to power their e-commerce experiences, fulfill orders, digitize brick-and-mortar stores, provide advertising services, and glean insights. With Instacart Ads, thousands of CPG brands – from category leaders to emerging brands – partner with the company to connect directly with consumers online, right at the point of purchase. With Instacart Health, the company is providing tools to increase nutrition security, make healthy choices easier for consumers, and expand the role that food can play in improving health outcomes. For more information, visit www.instacart.com/company.
Product Designer
Top Benefits
About the role
Who you are
- You have 3+ years of experience in digital product design, preferably in consumer products or advertising
- Comfortable collaborating closely with product and engineering partners to define scope, align on trade-offs, and ship high-quality, user-centered design solutions
- Demonstrated success with working in iterative environments with experimentation, A/B testing, or data-driven decision-making
- 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
- Experience designing consumer facing ad experiences across different surface types including digital and physical displays, with video and interactive formats
- Experience working with motion design and animation, especially for prototypes for presentations or user research
- Prior agency experience or pitching to external clients
What the job involves
- As a Product Designer II on the Ads team you’ll join a dynamic group helping build relevant and engaging ad experiences across our consumer-facing apps including the Instacart app and in-store Caper Carts
- In this role you’ll explore and prototype delightful product experiences that seamlessly integrate into the shopping experience and drive strong performance for advertisers
- You’ll be responsible for delivering on new ways for customers to interact with brands, bringing a strong user centric mindset that balances advertiser and business goals
- You’ll partner with other designers, user research, and cross-functional partners to evolve our ad experiences to increase customer engagement with personalized and differentiated experiences
- Design and deliver end-to-end solutions for our consumer advertising platform that feel native to the shopping journey, balancing customer intent with the goals for CPG brands and retailers
- Explore complex, ambiguous problem spaces, using data and experimentation to evaluate the performance of ad placements, iterate on relevance, and improve engagement rates
- Collaborate with other consumer facing teams to establish a shared understanding of the problem space, bringing people together to solve complex challenges as well as creating and testing new concepts that are intuitive, delightful, and drive impact
- Create and present compelling ideas that showcase how Instacart’s advertising platform helps brands achieve their goals through innovative solutions, blending data-driven insights with impactful storytelling to engage and inspire advertisers
- Develop and utilize design systems in Figma, enhancing the visual design whilst ensuring WCAG accessibility standards
Benefits
- Wellness Tailored to You: Medical, dental, vision, retirement, life & disability coverage right alongside physical & mental wellness programs, memberships and stipends to keep you and your family feeling your best.
- Family Building Benefits: No matter where you are in your family journey, we support you. Our plans cover modern family planning for all. We offer leave for all parents, flexible working schedules and an active Parents@ community.
- Work From Home Stipend: We help outfit your WFH setup and offer reimbursements so you can be your most productive while at home.
- Flexible Time Off: We all recharge differently. Take the time you need with our flexible time off policy and company-wide Self-Checkouts where we encourage everyone to sign off.
- Learning & Development: Whether you're just starting your career or leading teams, we provide customized L&D programs to help you grow and an annual allowance to pursue your development.
- Future Planning: We have you covered as you plan for your future. 401(k) matching in the US and RRSP in Canada, student loan assistance through Peanut Butter, free Rocket Lawyer membership, SoFi & First Republic financial planning and more.
- Four Year Fill-Up: We encourage our tenured employees to take longer breaks and truly unplug by doing something they love – typically four consecutive weeks around the four year mark.
- Community Connection: Support the communities you care about with volunteer weeks and get involved with our social impact program, Instacart Serves.
- Instacart Express Membership: We help keep your fridge stocked. Unlock grocery discounts with our Instacart Beta app while testing our latest features.
About Instacart
Instacart, the leading grocery technology company in North America, works with grocers and retailers to transform how people shop. The company partners with more than 1,500 national, regional, and local retail banners to facilitate online shopping, delivery and pickup services from more than 85,000 stores across North America on the Instacart Marketplace. Instacart makes it possible for millions of people to get the groceries they need from the retailers they love, and for approximately 600,000 Instacart shoppers to earn by picking, packing and delivering orders on their own flexible schedule. The Instacart Platform offers retailers a suite of enterprise-grade technology products and services to power their e-commerce experiences, fulfill orders, digitize brick-and-mortar stores, provide advertising services, and glean insights. With Instacart Ads, thousands of CPG brands – from category leaders to emerging brands – partner with the company to connect directly with consumers online, right at the point of purchase. With Instacart Health, the company is providing tools to increase nutrition security, make healthy choices easier for consumers, and expand the role that food can play in improving health outcomes. For more information, visit www.instacart.com/company.