Product Designer, Instagram Private Sharing

Meta•San Francisco, CA

10d

About The Position

Instagram Private Sharing is looking for a product designer to join a small team working to define the future vision and strategy for friend sharing experiences in partnership with cross functional partners, with sponsorship from IG Friends leadership. The Instagram Private Sharing team’s mission is to help people connect with friends over what they’re into and what they’re up to, focusing on lightweight, low-pressure sharing formats for a more personal and private experience. The team aims to make Instagram the best place for friends to share and connect daily, especially as user behavior shifts from public broadcast to private spaces. The team supports products like Notes, Map, Instants, Consumer Subscriptions and incubates 0-1 bets. Notes is a lightweight status sharing feature that has driven significant engagement among teens. Map includes features that help users feel more connected to friends and local happenings. Instants is our new low-pressure photo sharing product and we incubate new products in our Studio team.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or a related field and minimum of 8 years of experience in relevant field
8+ years of experience building and shipping applications or software at company-level scale level, leading the end-to-end experience within a large-scale, ambiguous domain
Interaction design experience with knowledge defining and evangelizing how an experience should behave based on understanding people's needs, plus consideration of how this innovation will scale and examples of the use of appropriate prototyping tools to demonstrate how a particular interaction will work
Visual design experience with expertise in typography, desktop/mobile UI, color, layout, iconography and aesthetic sense and how these elements impact product function
Strategic product thinking with the experience developing product goals, identifying opportunities in a global market, and making decisions based on the impact to people and the company
Experience representing work to executives, clearly and succinctly stating the goals and concepts
Staunch advocate for simplicity and craft and you sweat the details

Nice To Haves

Examples of leadership in non-product dimensions that have made a team stronger and positively impacted the work environment
Experience connecting your work with other industry-leading related initiatives across the company while driving collaboration
Have a proven record of influencing long-term product vision and phased strategy
Experience using vibe coding and using AI tools extensively

Responsibilities

Take broad, conceptual ideas and turn them into something useful and valuable for our 2 billion+ users and drive product strategy and innovation across a large organization
Design leading-edge concepts through the craft of end-to-end flows which impact broad sets of users at scale while using the appropriate prototyping tools
Drive design prioritization and execution, keeping up teams momentum to meet accelerated timelines
Design new experiences or layouts that improve visual systems
Play an active role in communicating strategic decisions around the future direction of products
Give and solicit feedback from a broader product team in order to continually raise our bar for quality
Act as a key cross-functional lead accountable for the success of the initiative, leaning into workstream level operations and processes when needed
Influence and drive alignment on product direction across multiple organizations and cross-functional partners
Work collaboratively with others, think creatively, and take on complex challenges
Take on mentorship and coaching opportunities