Senior Product Designer, Instrumentl
$160-185k
+ Equity. For candidates based in Canada, compensation varies by province and will be shared by your recruiter early in the process
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AI-powered SaaS platform for funding grants
Open for applications
AI-powered SaaS platform for funding grants
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$160-185k
+ Equity. For candidates based in Canada, compensation varies by province and will be shared by your recruiter early in the process
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To be a force-multiplier for non-profits.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of product design experience with end-to-end ownership of a full product domain, not a slice of one
- Experience designing in fintech or another highly regulated space such as healthcare, where compliance and data accuracy carry real consequences
- Deep expertise designing data-dense B2B SaaS interfaces: financial dashboards, reporting views, tracking tools, or similar multi-entity systems
- Ability to conduct and synthesize user research independently alongside your PM
- Experience designing for nonprofits or social impact
Desirable
- Time at a smaller company, ideally under 100 people and under 500 at minimum, where you owned the whole domain
- Prototyping with AI tools, for example building working prototypes in Claude or v0 Cursor that engineers can build from
- Exposure to accounting tools, fund reporting, or audit and compliance workflows
- Design systems experience
- Familiarity with accessibility standards
- Comfort with basic front-end concepts to collaborate closely with engineers
- Experience mentoring other designers
What the job involves
- We are hiring a Senior Product Designer reporting to the Head of Design
- You'll own Manage, our post-award product area, where more than $1.1B in grant funding gets tracked, reported on, and kept compliant
- This is detailed, unglamorous, genuinely hard work: three native accounting integrations that each behave a little differently, template-based expense imports layered on top, and federal grant compliance rules that run to hundreds of pages and carry real consequences when a nonprofit gets them wrong
- You'll report to Hope, Head of Design, and partner with your PM and engineering lead on a product area that is still being invented. If you get excited by data problems that other designers find boring, this is the seat
- Own end-to-end design for Manage, from discovery and research through ship and iteration
- Shape how financial data is surfaced for people who are not accountants: budget versus actuals, burn rates, variance flags, forecast views
- Design compliance review workflows against federal grant rules, where an error costs an organization its funding
- Untangle how three accounting integrations and template-based imports present as one coherent experience
- Recruit and interview grant professionals, then turn what you hear into insight and shipped product
- Write your own brief and set roadmap direction in partnership with your PM rather than waiting for a spec
- Drive definition in greenfield areas including program financials and cross-functional workflows
- Sequence the thousand things you could build into the handful that matter this quarter
- Design multi-stakeholder workflows spanning grant professionals, finance teams, and program staff
- Bring a point of view into the room and push back when something is not right for users
- Partner closely with engineering in a fast-shipping environment and measure what you ship
- Contribute to the quality bar across Instrumentl's design system
Our take
For nonprofits and academic institutions, a lot of energy and manpower is funnelled into finding the right grants and drafting their applications. This work before the work often takes hundreds of hours, and many funding bodies have as little as a 20% success rate. Instrumentl has set out to change that with its full-grant-drafting pipeline platform.
Instrumentl’s AI-powered platform works across the full grant lifecycle, assisting applicants in researching the perfect fit for funding, increasing redraft efficiency, discovering insights to align applications with the funding body's requirements and tracking and managing applications. Ultimately, then, Instrumentl sheds the need for multiple grant application tools and becomes a one-stop shop for grant consultants, non-profits and academic researchers.
It’s making a difference too, with a 2024 survey of customers revealing that its software helped them gain, on average, an extra $1.1 million a year. With a total of more than $7.7 billion raised through the platform and more than 4,500 leading organizations as customers, it’s unsurprising that Instrumentl itself has seen significant funding awarded. As the work of global non-profits grows in importance, Instrumentl is living up to its name.
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Company benefits
- Competitive salary: We offer a competitive salary as part of a comprehensive benefit package including a 401k
- Equity: We're doubling year over year. This means if we keep executing, the company (and your equity) will be worth a lot
- Health insurance: 100% coverage of employee health & dental insurance plans and 50% for dependents
- Paid time off: Generous PTO policy, including parental leave, so you can rest and recharge
- Office setup: Company laptop + $500 to set up your home workstation
- Investment in you: We help fund your professional development by providing coaching and education
- Remote: The team is fully distributed (read: no office!)
- Extras!: In-person retreats, surprise food deliveries, and games to add zest to your work life
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Katharine Corriveau
(Co-Founder)Previously a Development Specialist at UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley and a Computer Registrations Intern at the California Academy of Sciences.
Gauri Manglik
(Co-Founder & CEO)Also Member of the Board of Trustees at the Institute for Sustainable Philanthropy. Previously a Venture Partner at the Pioneer Fund, Product Manager at Air BNB and was a CEO & Co-Founder at Fondu.
Angela Braren
(Co-Founder)Previously Head of New Ventures at Perfect Day, was a Fundraiser at the Global Fund for Women and was a Salmon Habitat Specialist at Project SHARE.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Instrumentl
- At Instrumentl, we pride ourselves on building a diverse team from the ground up. We’re fully committed to cultivating a safe, welcoming environment where everyone is empowered to contribute, thrive, and do their best work.
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