As a Senior Product Designer, you'll deliver innovative solutions across visual design, UX, and UI while collaborating with teams and clients to enhance digital products. The role involves leading design efforts throughout the product lifecycle, ensuring clarity and user empathy in experiences, supported by a strong understanding of technology and design best practices.
Instrument is a digitally native design and technology company built to help brands unlock their full potential. Since 2005, our 300+ team of makers, thinkers, and storytellers has partnered with leading brands like Google, Nike, Uber, ŌURA, and Eventbrite to craft digital experiences that create impact and drive results.
Unlike traditional agencies, we don’t just design—we build. Our work lives at the intersection of taste and technology, powered by curiosity, thoughtful curation, and a commitment to delivering the most fitting solution for every brief. We bring this to life across three core offerings: Brand, Marketing, and Product.
As a member of our freelance network, you’ll collaborate with our teams to bring bold ideas to life—whether launching new brands, building digital products, or shaping experiences that move people. We welcome collaborators from all backgrounds and experiences who share our curiosity, creativity, and care for craft.
We believe great work comes from diverse perspectives and shared purpose. If you’re passionate about learning, experimenting, and making work that matters, we’d love to hear from you.
You're a visual and interactive designer who loves to bring clarity to complex concepts through design. You’re passionate about building, prototyping, and continually evolving digital products throughout the product life cycle. You’re not precious about any one solution, because you know that exploration and iteration gets you to the right answer.
You’re always up on the latest and greatest in technology, and obsess over details with an eye for sharp visual design. You love to work collaboratively on a team, but are also comfortable as the sole designer working directly with developers and responsible for delivering big ideas.
This freelance project runs from 11/17 - 12/23 at 40 hours/week
What You'll Do
- Deliver elegantly-simple solutions to the right problems — defined by insights and data on web, mobile, or multiple contexts, from digital to physical experiences
- Work on a diverse portfolio of projects that spread across visual design, UX, and UI with smart and collaborative clients
- Lead the creation of unified experiences across the entire customer journey that are contextual, clear, and elegant
- Use storytelling, facilitation, and insights about users to create empathy and guide product teams
- Raise the bar through your design work, facilitation, and client collaboration
- Work on a multi-disciplinary team in a highly collaborative environment with diverse perspectives and expertise
What You'll Bring
- Demonstrated experience shipping multiple high impact, successful digital products
- Strong verbal and visual presentation skills that get across the process, approach, and impact of your design
- Deep understanding of how modern technologies are used with design
- A mind for best practices, paired with a willingness to try something just crazy enough to work
- Experience working within established design systems and continually evolving them to keep up with the ever changing product landscape
- Ability to move quickly to prove out ideas, and a learning mindset
- Strategic problem solving skills and the capacity to distill complex information into meaningful concepts or ideas
- Deep understanding of current industry tools with the ability to adapt to new technologies
- Strong sense of ethics, and responsibility in understanding the way the work we do influences the world around us
- Curiosity, humility, and a passion for doing great work
Pay Range
- The expected pay range for this role is $61-78 per hour
- Our company has three regional pay bands that it adheres to depending on your location, we reference them as US 1, US 2, and US 3.
- US 3 is our base pay. Examples of cities in US 3 are Portland, Houston and Miami.
- US 2 pay is 7.5% higher than US 3 to meet the market rates. Examples of cities in US 2 are Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle.
- US 1 pay is 15% higher than US 3 to meet market rates. Examples of cities in US 1 are Brooklyn and San Francisco.
- If you are curious which region you are in, please apply and get connected with our recruiting team!
Top Skills
Design Systems
Digital Products
Prototyping
Storytelling
Ui
Ux
Visual Design
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