Senior Product Designer

Instrumentl is a hypergrowth, YC-backed startup on a mission to help the nonprofit sector drive impact through its grant management tool. The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of the Manage product area, focusing on creating intuitive solutions for managing grant funding and enhancing user experience for grant professionals.

Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end design for the Manage product area: discovery and research through shipping and iteration
• Shape how financial data is visualized and surfaced (budget vs. actuals, burn rates, variance flags, forecast views, just to name a few) for people who are not accountants
• Design complex, multi-stakeholder workflows for cross-team collaboration
• Envision AI-powered features to free up grant professionals’ time and increase compliance
• Drive definition of completely greenfield spaces
• Raise the quality bar across Instrumentl's design system

Requirements:

• 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
• Ability to conduct and synthesize user research independently
• Exceptional communication: present work, defend decisions, and align stakeholders clearly
• Active use of AI tools in your design workflow
• Seasoned IC: You've owned entire product domains, not just shipped features. You write your own brief, define the problem, and set the roadmap in partnership with your PM
• Curious: You are full of questions, and you seek out answers. Deriving insights from deep listening in user interviews is one of your strengths. You connect with others easily and have a knack for identifying patterns
• Systems thinker: You've designed for data-dense, multi-entity systems: financial dashboards, ops tracking tools, reporting workflows, or similar. You know how to cut through complexity until it feels intuitive
• B2B SaaS experience: You've spent meaningful time designing complex software. You understand multi-user workflows, role-based access, data provenance, and the operational needs of power users
• Finance-adjacent experience: You've designed for finance or adjacent domains. You understand how to communicate variance, forecasting, reconciliation, and compliance to non-technical users
• AI skilled: You're already using AI tools in your design practice, such as prototyping with v0, iterating with Claude, or thinking seriously about how AI advances product development. You're excited about designing AI-powered features
• Startup background: You have sound intuition and make good calls with incomplete information. You thrive in possibilities and don't need a heavy process to stay organized
• Strategic partner: You don't just execute a spec. You bring point of view into the room, push back when something isn't right for users, and drive alignment across engineering, product, and GTM
• Experience designing for nonprofits or social impact
• 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) to collaborate closely with engineers
• Experience mentoring other designers