Senior Product Designer

Nonprofits do some of the most important work in the world, and most of them are still managing grants in spreadsheets. We’re fixing that. 
Instrumentl is a profitable, hypergrowth, YC-backed SaaS platform building the operating system for grant-funded organizations. More than 5,500 nonprofits use Instrumentl to discover, track, and win grant funding, from local community organizations to the San Diego Zoo and the University of Alaska. Collectively they’ve moved over $1 billion through our platform.
We’re doubling year over year, customers love us (NPS 65+, Ellis PMF 60+), and we’re hiring people who want to build something that matters.

About the role:

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 professional 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.

The Instrumentl team is remote. You can design from anywhere in the continental U.S. or Canada as long as you have 4+ hours of overlap with the Pacific time zone. As a close-knit team, we want to have (virtual) face time with you and watch your cat roam in the background. We can't wait to meet you!

What you'll do:

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

What we're looking for:

Required

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

Nice to Have

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

Compensation & Benefits

For US-based candidates, the target salary range for this role is $160,000 – $205,000 USD, plus equity. Final compensation is determined based on experience, skillset, scope of responsibility, interview performance, and geographic location. We’re committed to paying competitively and equitably.
For candidates based in Canada, compensation varies by province and will be shared by your recruiter early in the process.

Benefits

100% covered health, dental, and vision insurance for employees (50% for dependents)

Generous PTO, including parental leave

401(k)

Company laptop and home-office stipend

Bi-annual company retreats

Instrumentl is evolving rapidly. You’ll always have new challenges and opportunities to grow here.