Staff Product Designer, Console Experience

DigitalOcean•Boston, MA

1d•Remote

About The Position

DigitalOcean is hiring a Staff Product Designer to own the console experience end to end, from navigation and cross-product patterns to the broader information architecture. The designer will work from a product-team vantage point while creating reusable frameworks, patterns, and guidance that teams across the console can rely on, ensuring the console functions as a coherent system for customers provisioning, managing, and scaling infrastructure. The role includes treating the design system as a product: owning its component library, patterns, visual and interaction standards, and roadmap in partnership with engineering. The designer will set and maintain the craft and quality bar across the product suite, establish a review process, develop high-leverage reusable patterns, and own high-visibility shared surfaces such as navigation, onboarding, the app shell, and landing pages. They will partner with engineering to ensure designs are implemented as intended and help develop UI engineers’ design skills through a design guild, reviews, and pairing. The successful candidate will help make simplicity and strong user experience a point of differentiation, support design investment with evidence, and own the creative vision for the console. This is a remote role. Compensation is $192,800–$241,000, with possible performance-based bonuses and equity compensation for eligible employees.

Requirements

Staff-level product design experience.
Proven track record building and scaling a design system across many products or teams.
Systems-thinking approach focused on reuse and consistency at scale.
Strong craft across interaction, visual, and information design.
Portfolio demonstrating design quality and measurable user-experience impact.
Experience driving quality and adoption through influence, standards, partnership, and persuasion across teams.
Comfort setting direction under ambiguity as the most senior or only designer in the room.
Strong, opinionated design point of view and conviction to own a product’s creative direction.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on knowledge of front-end constraints and how design systems are implemented in code.
Experience running or scaling a design system guild or community of practice across a large engineering organization.
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure concepts such as compute, storage, networking, and Kubernetes, or a track record of ramping up quickly in technical domains.
Experience designing for novice and expert users within the same product.

Responsibilities

Own the end-to-end console experience, from first login through users’ daily workflows.
Own the design system’s component library, patterns, and visual and interaction standards, and plan its roadmap jointly with engineering.
Set the craft and quality bar for the product suite and establish a review process to maintain it.
Create reusable patterns that allow product teams to ship well-designed UI without requiring a dedicated designer on each team.
Own shared, high-visibility surfaces including navigation, onboarding, the app shell, and landing pages.
Work closely with engineering to ensure designs are implemented as intended.
Develop UI engineers’ design skills through a design guild, reviews, and pairing.
Support requests for design investment with evidence of where investment will pay off.
Own and communicate the creative vision and direction for the console.