Black Founders Network Job Board

Connecting top talent with Black-led startups. Explore opportunities and find your place in the Black entrepreneurial ecosystem!

Product Design Manager, Instagram Growth

Instagram

Instagram

Product, Design, Sales & Business Development
Menlo Park, CA, USA · New York, NY, USA · San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on May 20, 2025

We’re seeking an experienced Product Design Manager to lead design for Acquisition under the Instagram Growth pillar. You will be essential in growing an incredible team of designers while managing a broad portfolio of features while elevating and ensuring the simplicity and craft of the work. You will need to be experienced with identifying opportunities in an ambiguous space to help people discover and join Instagram including overseeing IG's web experience, working within one of the strongest design organizations in the industry.

Responsibilities

  • Build and manage a team of collaborative product designers that delivers simple, well-crafted designs
  • Lead decisions for Instagram's Growth Acquisition initiatives with cross-functional partners
  • Turn broad, conceptual ideas into useful and valuable products for our users
  • Proactively solicit and provide feedback from leaders and a broader product team in order to improve our products and raise our quality bar
  • Be responsible for overall team performance and health, resource allocation, project prioritization, and design simplicity and craft.
  • Collaborate with other teams across Instagram and cross-functional partners to efficiently align on simple solutions
  • Effectively communicate your team's product goals and connect related projects across the company

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience with 8+ years of experience in Product Design
  • 4+ years of design leadership experience with direct reports under your guidance and leadership
  • 8+ years of experience working collaboratively with product, engineering, design, content and user research teams
  • Experience representing work to a broader product team and other leaders, clearly and succinctly articulating the goals and concepts
  • Experience leading product direction and strategic thinking with the experience developing product goals, identify opportunities, and make decisions based on the impact to people and the company
  • Excitement for the Growth space

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience leading consumer products on both mobile and web
  • Experience working on large scale, complex, ambiguous projects across multiple teams
  • Experience with delivering 0-1 products from concept stages to launch