Senior Manager of Product Design, Instacart

• We are seeking someone who loves building design culture, can instill incredibly supportive ways of working, and will maintain the highest quality of craft in everything we ship
• You bring exceptional clarity and vision to identifying opportunities and framing problems
• You are a leader who loves to engage directly in the design and craft work as much as you like developing and growing talent capabilities on your team
• You have a remarkable ability to set and evolve the vision of a product experience through your strategic storytelling, problem driven frameworks, insight gathering, eye for visual design languages and interactive design craft
• You have set new standards around design in your previous work and can demonstrate major shifts in quality, capabilities and perspective from your team
• Deep understanding for how to motivate design work through explorations, concept development, and creative directions that draft off a core brand design system
• Operationally effective at structuring and managing existing roadmaps and future horizon planning with comfort in adjusting to pivots or new opportunities that might influence a defined plan
• You are an expert at setting up rituals and rhythms for a design team - ones that drive a nurturing culture for growth and for ensuring razor sharp clarity of focus and priority
• You lead with clarity and vision, and you can motivate others to deliver excellent results while keeping them fulfilled and growing in their craft
• Reliable self-starter who can provide direction to teams and designers at a 40,000 ft. level and at a pixel-level (whichever is most needed in the moment)
• Track record of influencing product and engineering functions to keep user problems top-of-mind and invest in holistic, future-friendly solutions
• 10+ years of experience in consumer facing digital product design work - ideally with brand-driven, retail or commerce products
• 4+ years of managing multi-discipline teams of 5 or more
• You foster collaboration, growth, and inclusivity within your team, empowering designers to contribute their best work toward a shared vision

Desirable

• The Instacart Design Team is dedicated to making grocery shopping effortless for everyone and finding solutions to large-scale opportunities that will forever change the way people feed themselves and their loved ones
• We’re a four sided marketplace and design for the needs of Consumer, Shoppers, Retailers, and Advertisers
• The Instacart design team focuses on designing, building & landing multi-platform product experiences that make grocery shopping effortless and create economic opportunity for our shoppers
• The team crafts solutions for large-scale challenges that will change the way people feed themselves and their loved ones
• We’re looking for a Design leader who will help shape and build the digital experience for our core shopping journey while maintaining a balance with the needs of our 4-sided marketplace ecosystem
• As the Product Design Sr Manager, you will work closely with Instacart’s cross-functional leaders to define product strategy and vision while directing a team of designers to build performant, stunning, and undeniably useful experiences that are driven by our consumers’ overt and latent needs
• This role is designed for a leader who will bias towards craft than pure people management