Who you are

- 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

- 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

What the job involves

- 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 qualified 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

- Actuals 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

- 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

Benefits

- Competitive salary: We offer a competitive salary as part of a comprehensive benefit package including a 401k

- Equity: We're doubling year over year. This means if we keep executing, the company (and your equity) will be worth a lot

- Health insurance: 100% coverage of employee health & dental insurance plans and 50% for dependents

- Paid time off: Generous PTO policy, including parental leave, so you can rest and recharge

- Office setup: Company laptop + $500 to set up your home workstation

- Investment in you: We help fund your professional development by providing coaching and education

- Remote: The team is fully distributed (read: no office!)

- Extras!: In-person retreats, surprise food deliveries, and games to add zest to your work life

📌 Senior Product Designer (Canada)
🏢 Instrumentl
📍 Canada