About the Role
Instagram's mission is to inspire creativity that brings people together. This high-impact role focuses on shaping user experiences for Instagram's 2 billion+ users, involving all aspects of product development from brainstorming to pixel-perfect execution. You will be a key design leader on a cross-functional team, driving strategic decisions and ensuring products are valuable, easy to use, and well-crafted.
Responsibilities
- Lead and deliver design projects of large and/or ambiguous scope across Instagram's product ecosystem.
- Translate broad, conceptual ideas into useful and valuable user experiences.
- Design user flows and interfaces that simplify complex actions.
- Create new experiences or layouts that evolve and define visual systems.
- Innovate with AI to develop new capabilities, enhance personalization, or unlock new value.
- Contribute to strategic decisions regarding the future direction of Instagram products.
- Provide and receive design feedback to improve design output quality and mentor team members.
- Lead cross-functional partnerships to oversee product user experience from conception to launch.
- Champion design craft and elevate design quality standards by influencing team members' work.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 4+ years of product design experience with demonstrated impact on consumer products at scale.
- A portfolio showcasing end-to-end ownership of complex, multi-surface product experiences.
- Experience leading end-to-end development efforts, driving progress with Cross Functional Network (XFN) teams, developing design roadmaps, and making high-impact decisions balancing user needs with business growth objectives.
- Expertise in advanced prototyping techniques, including functional prototypes or emerging technologies.
- Comfort using metrics, research, and experimentation to inform and validate design decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact.
- Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices.
- Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development and staying current with emerging AI technologies.
- Proven leadership in non-product dimensions that have strengthened the team and positively impacted the work environment.
Skills
- Product Design
- Interaction Design
- Visual Design
- Advanced Prototyping
- Data Analysis
- AI Integration
- Responsible AI Practices
- Prompt Engineering
- Agent Orchestration
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 4+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $139,000/year to $199,000/year
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity
About the Company
- Instagram's mission is to inspire creativity that brings people together.
- We support those who create and shape culture around the world.
- It's a product where design taste shapes the product strategy — from the camera to the grid to Stories to Reels, the biggest bets have been design-led.
