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$200,000 – $230,000/yr

Staff Product Designer

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Hello, we’re Instrumentl. 👋 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,

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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 growing quickly, customers love us (check out our G2 reviews!), and we're hiring people who want to build something that matters.

Own end-to-end design for GrantOS across Platform, Core, and enterprise, from discovery through ship and iteration

Define the data relationships, permission models, and integration surfaces that hold up across every workflow in the product

Set the interaction patterns and design system foundations that every other product area inherits

Design how work connects across pods, so a change in one area makes the next one smarter instead of harder

Drive definition in genuinely greenfield spaces where the right answer is not obvious yet

Write your own brief, frame the problem, and set roadmap direction in partnership with your PM

Make good calls with incomplete information and sequence the work so the team ships learnings quickly

Shape how grant professionals manage tasks, reporting, and integrations across the full grant lifecycle

Recruit participants, run the interviews, and synthesize ambiguous user needs into clear product direction

Bring a point of view into the room and push back when something is not right for users

Align engineering, product, and GTM on direction at any level of the company

Raise the quality bar across the design team and coach the designers around you

10+ years of product design experience with meaningful time at staff or principal level, having owned entire product domains rather than features inside them

Proven end-to-end ownership of a platform or core product area in complex B2B or enterprise SaaS: data models, permissions, integration surfaces, and patterns that other teams build on top of

Shipped net-new product work alongside that platform work, including 0-to-1 areas you helped define rather than received as a finished spec

Deep involvement in user research end to end, from planning and recruiting through synthesis into product decisions

Experience designing agentic or AI-powered product surfaces

Nice to Have

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Design systems experience where you defined the patterns, not only used them

Prototyping with AI tools, for example building working prototypes in Claude or Cursor that engineers can build from

Exposure to compliance, data integrity, or workflow-heavy domains

Startup experience where process was lightweight and you brought your own structure

Experience mentoring or coaching other designers

Familiarity with the nonprofit or social impact sector

For US-based candidates, the target salary range for this role is $200,000 – $230,000 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.

What We Offer

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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.

Instrumentl is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building an inclusive workplace and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other legally protected status. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please let us know.

✓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

Location & Eligibility

Where is the job

United States

Remote within one country

Who can apply

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Posted: September 2, 2026
First seen: September 2, 2026
Last seen: September 4, 2026

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Backed by years of personal and professional experience in the nonprofit and academic arenas, our team came together to create the most comprehensive source of grant and funder data in the world, and designed it around the needs of our community.

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