Senior Product Designer

Instrumentl; Fitzgerald; Hybrid; CAD 160,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% covered health, dental, and vision insurance for employees

Generous PTO, including parental leave

401(k)

Company laptop and home-office stipend

Bi-annual company retreats

Job summary

Medium is hiring a Senior Product Designer to lead the Manage product area. This role involves designing an intelligent platform that supports grant professionals by ensuring compliance and efficient workflows.

You will collaborate directly with the Head of Design and engage with multi-stakeholders while working remotely from Canada, maintaining a 4-hour overlap with Pacific time zone.

Ideal candidates should have at least 7 years of product design experience and strong expertise in developing data-rich user interfaces.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product design experience, with at least 2 years at senior level.
• Experience owning complex B2B or enterprise product areas end-to-end.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design for the Manage product area.
• Design complex workflows for cross-team collaboration.
• Envision and design AI-powered features to increase compliance.

Skills

Product design experience

Proven track record ownership of complex B2B/enterprise products

Deep expertise in data-heavy UIs

Strong Figma skills

Experience with AI in design workflow

Tools

Figma

AI tools

Job description

Senior Product Designer

We’re hiring a Senior Product Designer to own Manage, our post‑award product area where $1.1B+ in grant funding is tracked, reported on, and kept compliant.

Grant professionals are doing some of the most important, high‑stakes work in the country, and they deserve tools to match it. Until recently, that infrastructure didn't exist. Post‑award work happened across a patchwork of spreadsheets, email chains, and disconnected accounting exports, with the grant professional as the middleperson: manually moving information between systems instead of doing the strategic work they were hired to do.

We’re building the solution: a single, intelligent platform where every stage of the grant lifecycle connects, and each stage makes the next one smarter. We recently launched Spenddown, enabling nonprofits to see real‑time budget vs. actual tracking synced from accounting systems like Sage Intacct and QuickBooks Online. We’re now building toward program financials, cross‑functional workflows, reporting functionality, and compliance reviews.

These are meaty, genuinely hard design problems: complex data models, multi‑stakeholder workflows spanning grant professionals, finance teams, and program staff, and high‑stakes compliance contexts where post‑award mistakes cost organizations their funding. This product area is still being invented, and the designer who owns it will shape what post‑award management looks like for thousands of organizations.

You’ll report directly to Hope, Head of Design, and work as a true strategic partner to your PM and engineering lead. This is an IC role with outsized scope, not a feature factory.

The Instrumentl team is remote. You can design from anywhere in the continental U.S. or Canada as long as you have 4+ hours of overlap with the Pacific time zone. As a close‑knit team, we want to have (virtual) face time with you and watch your cat roam in the background. We can’t wait to meet you!

What you’ll do

Product Design & Ownership

• Lead end‑to‑end design for the Manage product area: discovery and research through shipping and iteration
• Shape how financial data is visualized for non‑accountants: budget vs. actuals, burn rates, variance flags, and forecast views
• Design complex, multi‑stakeholder workflows for cross‑team collaboration across grant professionals, finance teams, and program staff
• Drive definition of completely greenfield spaces where the infrastructure is still being invented

AI & Systems Thinking

• Envision and design AI‑powered features that free up grant professionals’ time and increase compliance
• Bring systems thinking to data‑dense, multi‑entity problems: cut through complexity until it feels intuitive
• Use AI tools actively in your design practice: prototyping, iteration, and thinking seriously about how AI advances product development

Design Quality & Collaboration

• Raise the quality bar across Instrumentl’s design system
• Bring point of view into the room, push back when something isn’t right for users, and drive alignment across engineering, product, and GTM
• Conduct and synthesize user research independently to surface insights and patterns

What we’re looking for

Required

• 7+ years of product design experience, with at least 2 years at senior level
• Proven track record owning complex B2B or enterprise product areas end‑to‑end
• Deep expertise designing data‑heavy UIs: financial dashboards, tracking tools, reporting views, or similar
• Strong Figma skills: user flows, wireframes, hi‑fi mockups, prototypes, and design systems
• Experience working closely with engineers in a fast‑shipping startup environment
• Active use of AI tools in your design workflow

Nice to Have

• Experience designing for nonprofits or social impact organizations
• Exposure to financial software, accounting tools, compliance workflows, or fund reporting
• Design systems experience
• Familiarity with accessibility standards
• Comfort with basic front‑end concepts (HTML, CSS)
• Experience mentoring other designers

Compensation & Benefits

For US‑based candidates, the target salary range for this role is $160,000 – $205,000 USD, plus equity. Final compensation is determined based on experience, skillset, scope of responsibility, interview performance, and geographic location. We’re committed to paying competitively and equitably.

For candidates based in Canada, compensation varies by province and will be shared by your recruiter early in the process.

Benefits

• 100% covered health, dental, and vision insurance for employees (50% for dependents)
• Generous PTO, including parental leave
• 401(k)
• Company laptop and home‑office stipend
• Bi‑annual company retreats

Instrumentl is evolving rapidly. You’ll always have new challenges and opportunities to grow here.

Instrumentl is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building an inclusive workplace and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other legally protected status. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please let us know.