Product Designer, Trust & Safety
Job Description
Instagram is seeking a Product Designer, Trust & Safety to design end-to-end experiences that translate regulatory and safety requirements into clear, empathetic product UX. This role will lead a portfolio-level design vision and partner across teams to deliver trustworthy, scalable safety standards for teens, parents, and creators.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design vision for trust and safety experiences across Instagram, setting portfolio-level direction beyond individual features.
- Design end-to-end product experiences for youth safety, parental controls, creator protections, and platform integrity, with clear and empathetic communication as a core UX priority.
- Translate complex regulatory, policy, and safety requirements into intuitive, human-centered experiences that work for teens, parents, and creators.
- Drive alignment and influence across Design, Product, Policy, Engineering, and Legal at senior leadership levels to support cohesive outcomes.
- Define and elevate the craft of content-informed product design by mentoring designers and establishing standards and best practices for communicating sensitive topics at scale.
- Navigate significant ambiguity and competing constraints to deliver cohesive, trustworthy experiences.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or a related field, plus 8+ years of experience in product design or a related discipline.
- 8+ years of experience building and shipping applications or software at company-level scale, including leading the end-to-end experience within a large-scale, ambiguous domain.
- Content design background with demonstrated evolution into holistic product design using IxD, content, and systems thinking.
- Experience designing mobile-first, consumer-social products at scale.
- Experience navigating ambiguity across design, product, policy, engineering, and legal functions to deliver cohesive results.
Preferred Qualifications
- Ability to turn regulatory requirements into human-centered, intuitive user experiences.
- Experience designing in Trust & Safety, well-being, or heavily regulated or policy-constrained spaces.
- Portfolio or program-level strategic vision.
- Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices, including risk assessment, bias mitigation, and quality and accuracy review.
- Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize or redesign workflows and deliver measurable impact such as efficiency gains and quality improvements.
- Experience designing for teens/youth or family safety contexts.
- Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development, such as prompt/context engineering and agent orchestration, along with staying current with emerging AI technologies.
Location and Compensation
Location: San Francisco, CA (onsite).
Salary: USD 250,000 - 312,000 per year.
Education
Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or a related field.