Staff Product Designer, Console Experience
About The Position
DigitalOcean is seeking a Staff Product Designer to own the end-to-end console experience, from navigation and onboarding to reusable cross-product patterns and shared surfaces. The designer will work within a product team while developing frameworks, standards, and guidance used across teams, ensuring the console functions as a coherent product system. The role spans detailed interface design and broad information architecture, and includes ownership of the design system and its roadmap in partnership with engineering. It also calls for establishing product-wide design quality, enabling teams to deliver polished experiences, and providing a clear creative vision for the console.
Requirements
- Staff-level product design experience.
- Proven track record building and scaling a design system across multiple products or teams.
- Systems-thinking approach to designing reusable, consistent experiences at scale.
- Strong craft across interaction, visual, and information design, supported by a portfolio showing design quality and measurable UX impact.
- Experience driving quality and adoption through influence, standards, partnership, and persuasion across teams.
- Comfort setting direction under ambiguity, including as the most senior or only designer in the room.
- Strong, opinionated design point of view and conviction to own creative direction.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with engineers.
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, or Kubernetes, or a track record of quickly learning technical domains.
- Experience designing for novice and expert users within the same product.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end design of the console experience, from first login through users’ daily workflows.
- Own the design system, including its component library, patterns, visual and interaction standards, and roadmap in partnership with engineering.
- Set and uphold the craft and quality bar across the product suite, including a review process.
- Develop reusable patterns that help product teams ship well-designed interfaces without dedicated designers.
- Own shared, high-visibility surfaces such as navigation, onboarding, the app shell, and landing pages.
- Collaborate with engineering to ensure designs are implemented as intended.
- Grow the design capabilities of UI engineers on product teams through a design guild, reviews, and pairing.
- Advocate for design investment using evidence of where it will have impact.
- Own and communicate the creative vision and direction for the console.
Benefits
- Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
- Access to LinkedIn Learning courses.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Local Employee Meetups.
- Flexible time off policy.
- Potential performance-based bonus.
- Equity compensation for eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire.
- Option to participate in the Employee Stock Purchase Program.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
