Remote Senior Product Designer, Design Systems

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Canada

Hybrid

CAD 171,000 - 181,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Instacart’s Design Systems & Foundations team seeks a design-first, technically fluent product designer to evolve our design system as a product. You will partner with engineering to ensure design-to-code fidelity and shape a durable source of truth powering automation and AI-assisted workflows.

You’ll collaborate with an eight-person foundations team to unlock velocity and consistency for product teams serving millions of customers, across remote work locations in Canada as part of a Flex First

Qualifications

6+ years of experience in product design (or equivalent), including shipping and maintaining a design system adopted by multiple product teams.
Portfolio showcasing design systems mastery (components, patterns, tokens, governance) and cross-platform consistency; portfolio link required.
Technical fluency collaborating in component-based workflows (e.g., Figma component libraries and Storybook) with a strong understanding of how implementation constraints shape UX.
Hands‑on experience with token pipelines and tooling (e.g., CSS variables, semantic token architectures) and writing implementation‑aware specs with acceptance criteria.
Proven accessibility competency applied to systems (e.g., WCAG 2.1 AA) with accessible defaults and patterns.
Demonstrated use of AI/automation to improve delivery speed and quality for design systems.
Experience driving system adoption through metrics, deprecation/migration programs, and cross-functional enablement.
Bachelor’s degree in Design, HCI, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

Own and drive the design system roadmap—prioritizing by product needs, system health, and adoption friction.
Define and evolve system UX: components, patterns, interaction states, responsive behavior, motion, and accessibility defaults.
Lead token strategy end to end (primitive and semantic), including theming, density, and extensibility.
Establish governance and lifecycle management: contribution standards, quality bars, review processes, versioning, deprecations, migration plans.
Create implementation-aware specs with edge cases and acceptance criteria; collaborate in component-based workflows (Figma libraries, Storybook) to ensure design-to-code fidelity.
Build design enablement in context—linting rules, templates, and plugin experiences; support AI-assisted workflows.
Measure adoption and impact, identify workflow friction, and execute enablement programs.