Senior Product Designer — AI-Native Tools & Systems

Instagram; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 201,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

Instagram is seeking a senior Product Designer to lead design across AI-native tooling and end-to-end product development. This foundational role shapes how product teams work, from ideation to production, with a focus on prototyping agents, memory systems, and a unified collaboration experience.

The designer will guide multiple workstreams, partner with engineering and leadership, and balance systems thinking with pixel-level craft in a fast-evolving environment.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of product design experience with impact on multi-surface systems
• Portfolio showing end-to-end ownership of complex product platforms
• Strong background in AI-powered products or AI tooling
• Experience leading design in large, ambiguous environments
• Experience designing for AI agents or conversational interfaces
• Comfort navigating high organizational complexity and cross-functional alignment
• Proven ability to raise quality, craft, and coherence across surfaces

Responsibilities

• Define and drive end-to-end vision to scale tooling used daily by product teams
• Shape org memory and context systems for canonical docs and decisions
• Maintain high craft and coherence across surfaces; set quality bar for AI outputs
• Set design direction for new products or platforms at scale
• Align leadership and partners on AI capabilities, platform infra, and workflows
• Apply AI-native thinking to information architecture and interactions
• Elevate tools to premium status through strong design systems and patterns
• Mentor designers and foster AI-native design practices
• Collaborate with engineering and leadership to implement the design vision

Skills

AI-native design

Product design

Systems thinking

Design leadership

Mentoring

Job description

Instagram is seeking a senior Product Designer to lead design across AI-native tooling and end-to-end product development. This foundational role shapes how product teams work, from ideation to production, with a focus on prototyping agents, memory systems, and a unified collaboration experience.

The designer will guide multiple workstreams, partner with engineering and leadership, and balance systems thinking with pixel-level craft in a fast-evolving environment.