Staff Product Designer, Instrumentl

• 10+ years of product design experience with meaningful time at staff or principal level, having owned entire product domains rather than features inside them
• Proven end-to-end ownership of a platform or core product area in complex B2B or enterprise SaaS: data models, permissions, integration surfaces, and patterns that other teams build on top of
• Shipped net-new product work alongside that platform work, including 0-to-1 areas you helped define rather than received as a finished spec
• Deep involvement in user research end to end, from planning and recruiting through synthesis into product decisions
• Experience designing agentic or AI-powered product surfaces

Desirable

• We are hiring a Staff Product Designer reporting to the Head of Design
• You'll own GrantOS, the foundational layer every other product area at Instrumentl sits on top of: Platform (the data layer, MCP, BI), Core (Tracker, Tasks, Reports, Integrations), and the enterprise surfaces that connect them
• This is the seat where you define how grant professionals experience Instrumentl as a system rather than a set of features, which means the data models, permissions, and interaction patterns you set get inherited by every designer and every pod after you
• Much of this area is still being invented, so you will be defining problems rather than receiving specs
• Own end-to-end design for GrantOS across Platform, Core, and enterprise, from discovery through ship and iteration
• Define the data relationships, permission models, and integration surfaces that hold up across every workflow in the product
• Set the interaction patterns and design system foundations that every other product area inherits
• Design how work connects across pods, so a change in one area makes the next one smarter instead of harder
• Drive definition in genuinely greenfield spaces where the right answer is not obvious yet
• Write your own brief, frame the problem, and set roadmap direction in partnership with your PM
• Make good calls with incomplete information and sequence the work so the team ships learnings quickly
• Shape how grant professionals manage tasks, reporting, and integrations across the full grant lifecycle
• Recruit participants, run the interviews, and synthesize ambiguous user needs into clear product direction
• Bring a point of view into the room and push back when something is not right for users
• Align engineering, product, and GTM on direction at any level of the company
• Raise the quality bar across the design team and coach the designers around you