Remote Senior Design Programs Lead — AI-Driven Ops

Xapply; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 178,000 - 188,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

New hire equity grant

Annual refresh grants

Job summary

Instacart is seeking a Senior Design Program Manager to drive operational excellence across the Design organization. You will build AI-enabled systems, scale processes, and manage tools and vendor relationships powering creative work.

You will own end-to-end program execution, leveraging AI to automate workflows and collaborating with Design, Product, Marketing, Engineering, Legal, and Finance to deliver impactful outcomes.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in program management and design operations within design or product organizations.
• Strong product sense and design craft sensibility, with well-developed methods and tools for driving fluid programs forward.
• Experience with all stages of the product development lifecycle, launching products end-to-end.
• Technical fluency to collaborate with design system and engineering teams—understanding system architecture, component APIs, design-to-code workflows, and technical constraints.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end delivery of complex, multi-quarter design initiatives across Design, Product, Engineering, Marketing, Legal, Business Development and other cross-functional teams.
• Enable seamless cross-functional collaboration and predictable program outcomes.
• Build and deploy AI-enabled workflows that automate program management tasks—status reporting, resource tracking, documentation synthesis, and stakeholder communication.

Skills

Program management

Design operations

Cross-functional leadership

AI fluency

Vendor management

Communication

Stakeholder management

Design systems knowledge

Tools

Figma

Jira

IDS (Instacart Design System)

Job description

Instacart is seeking a Senior Design Program Manager to drive operational excellence across the Design organization. You will build AI-enabled systems, scale processes, and manage tools and vendor relationships powering creative work.

You will own end-to-end program execution, leveraging AI to automate workflows and collaborating with Design, Product, Marketing, Engineering, Legal, and Finance to deliver impactful outcomes.