Design intuitive user experiences for a PaaS product, collaborate with teams, and drive user satisfaction through innovative design solutions.
Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world.
We're seeking a mid- to senior-level product designer to join our Platform-as-a-Service product design team who is passionate about creating tools for people that are human-empowering, obvious in use, relevant to users' needs, and enjoyable to interact with. Reporting to the Manager of Product Design, you'll become a vital part of a vibrant product team that champions an inclusive and supportive environment. Design at DigitalOcean is not just wireframing around complex challenges; we're spearheading the development of simple, powerful tools across our entire ecosystem.
In this role you will:
- Spearhead Innovation: Design intuitive and cohesive user experiences that are engaging, straightforward, and secure. Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineers to create impactful interactions that exceed user expectations.
- Empower Users: Focus on human-centered design principles to enhance user capabilities and respect their needs, driving satisfaction and aligning with strategic goals.
- Drive DO Simple: Transform complexity into clarity, ensuring interactions are intuitive and user-friendly. Optimize essential processes for seamless user experiences.
- Ensure Relevance: Create contextually relevant experiences for users of varying technical proficiency, addressing the evolving needs of developers and their teams.
- Foster Enjoyment: Make development delightful by creating engaging and enjoyable experiences, encouraging continuous innovation and positivity across the team.
- Move DO Fast: Embrace the DO Fast philosophy to rapidly develop and implement designs, ensuring quick, efficient, and user-friendly experiences.
Join us at DigitalOcean and be part of a team where your work enhances the development experience for builders globally, influencing the future of our platform and your career in profoundly positive ways.
What You’ll Do:- Identify and Act Quickly: Move rapidly from opportunity to concept to design, creating multiple options to maintain momentum.
- Deliver Impact: Lead and contribute to projects that drive significant value for customers and the business.
- Design End-to-End User Flows: Create complete experiences that address current and future user needs and pain points.
- Core Team Member: Influence product strategy and execution as part of the product team with Product Managers and Engineers.
- Communicate Clearly: Articulate and exhibit design perspectives and solutions to complex problems.
- Enhance System Integration: Improve design contributions by leveraging system-wide dependencies and technical specifics.
- Collaborate Technically: Work with engineering to resolve front-end issues and enhance product quality.
- Champion Collaboration: Unify and enhance the customer experience by working closely with designers and product teams, fostering a team-oriented environment.
- Monitor Progress: Track team progress, document challenges, and share proactive solutions.
- Lead Cross-Functional Projects: Contribute to significant projects across the company to achieve strategic objectives.
- Engage Company-Wide: Participate in company-wide events like Shark-A-Hack, showcasing skills and contributing to innovative projects.
- Drive KPI Improvements: Hypothesize how design can impact key performance indicators and solve product challenges. Monitor the impact of your design work on key business metrics.
- Advance Design Practices: Implement best practices and introduce industry-leading tools and methods to your design team and broader DigitalOcean design community.
- Foster Relationships: Maintain strong cross-functional relationships to ensure seamless collaboration.
- Future-Focused: Shape the future of design at DigitalOcean with a deep understanding of modern processes and operational models.
- Experienced and Versatile: Bring relevant experience from similar businesses and work on both broadly defined concepts and narrowly defined, tactical deliverables.
- Dynamic and Engaged: Thrive on engaging with a wide range of projects across the DigitalOcean ecosystem.
- T-Shaped Skills: Expertise in various design disciplines, including visual design, development, research, usability testing, and content strategy.
- Effective Communicator and Team Player: Excel in verbal and written communication, work well within a team, combining opinionated perspectives with humility.
- Accessibility Advocate and User-Centric: Prioritize accessible design and understand the needs of both technical and non-technical users.
- Organized and Self-Motivated: Maintain highly developed organizational skills and take full responsibility for your work, knowing when to seek guidance.
- Lifelong Learner and Tech-Savvy: Stay updated with the latest in design systems, continuously pursue learning, and have a keen interest in technical products and their design challenges.
- Stakeholder Savvy and Adaptable: Gain buy-in from multiple stakeholders, keep them informed about impactful changes, and adjust strategies and roles as needed to meet business demands.
- $92,400 - $115,500
*This is a remote role
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Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean
- We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.
- We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.
- We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
- We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
- DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
Top Skills
Design Systems
Usability Testing
Visual Design
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