Instrumentl
SaaS
SeniorProductDesigner
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“Senior Product Designer at Instrumentl. Skills: Product Design, Data Visualization, Workflow Design, AI Feature Design. 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”
What You'll Achieve.
Help the nonprofit sector drive impact; Become the #1 most-loved grant management tool; Shape what post-award management looks like for thousands of organizations
Industry & Context.
Deriving insights from deep listening in user interviews is one of your strengths; Systems thinker: You've designed for data-dense, multi-entity systems; You know how to cut through complexity until it feels intuitive
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.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
7+ years of product design experience, 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, 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
Nice to Have
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
What You'll Do.
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
just to name a few) for people who are not accountants
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
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work as a true strategic partner to your PM and engineering lead; Experience working closely with engineers in a fast-shipping startup environment; Align stakeholders clearly
Communication Scope
Exceptional communication: present work, defend decisions, and align stakeholders clearly
Process & Methodology
Own entire product domains, not just shipped features, Write your own brief, define the problem, and set the roadmap in partnership with your PM
Full Job Description
## Description Hello, we’re Instrumentl. Billions in grant funding are still managed in spreadsheets. We're fixing that. Instrumentl is a hypergrowth, YC-backed startup on a mission to help the nonprofit sector drive impact — and we're well on our way to becoming the #1 most-loved grant management tool. We help over 5,500 nonprofits, from local homeless shelters to organizations like the San Diego Zoo and the University of Alaska, find, win, and manage grants in one place. 🌏 ✨ Our charts are dramatically up-and-to-the-right 📈 — we're cash flow positive and doubling year-over-year, with customers who love us (NPS is 65+ and Ellis PMF survey is 60+). 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
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