Product Designer

Product Designer for Instagram Private Sharing at Instagram, shaping the future vision and strategy for friend-sharing experiences with sponsorship from IG Friends leadership.

Responsibilities

• Transform broad, conceptual ideas into practical, valuable features for billions of users, guiding product strategy and cross-functional innovation.
• Translate leading edge concepts into end-to-end flows that scale across large user sets, using appropriate prototyping tools.
• Prioritize design work, drive execution, and sustain momentum to meet accelerated timelines.
• Create new experiences or layouts that strengthen visual systems and overall consistency.
• Communicate strategic decisions about the future direction of products with clarity and impact.
• Solicit and incorporate feedback from a broader product team to continually raise quality.
• Act as a cross-functional lead responsible for the initiative’s success, contributing to workstream operations as needed.
• Influence and align product direction across multiple organizations and partners.
• Collaborate with others, think creatively, and tackle complex design challenges.
• Mentor and coach teammates to foster growth and elevate design practice.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or related field, plus at least 8 years of relevant experience.
• 8+ years building and shipping applications or software at company scale, leading end-to-end experiences within a large-scale, ambiguous domain.
• Experience in interaction design with the ability to define and evangelize how an experience should behave based on user needs, plus demonstrable use of prototyping tools to validate interactions.
• Visual design expertise including typography, desktop and mobile UI, color, layout, iconography, and an informed aesthetic that supports product function.
• Strategic product thinking with a track record of setting goals, identifying opportunities in a global market, and making decisions that impact people and the business.
• Experience presenting work to executives with clear goals and concise concepts.
• A strong advocate for simplicity and craft with meticulous attention to detail.

Compensation

• Base salary: USD 201,000 - 278,000 per year
• Bonus, equity, and benefits included

Technologies

• AI tools

Details

• Location: New York, NY (onsite)