Senior Product Designer

As a Senior Product Designer |, you'll play a key role in shaping intuitive, elegant, and impactful product experiences. You will translate complex workflows and information into user-friendly interfaces that are both visually compelling and highly functional. With a strong foundation in interaction, visual, and product design, you'll contribute to the ongoing refinement of our digital products, ensuring they consistently meet high standards of usability, accessibility, and design quality. Working closely with cross-functional teams, you'll help develop innovative solutions that align with user needs and business goals.

Responsibilities & Duties

• Collaborate with product managers, designers, researchers, and engineers to design end-to-end user experiences—including information architecture, content, interaction flows, and navigation—that meet both user and business needs.
• Apply human-centered design methodologies to transform abstract challenges into clear, user-focused solutions by analyzing data and creating workflows, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes.
• Partner with product managers and researchers to deeply understand user problems and business requirements, aligning on a shared vision before moving into solution design.
• Work hand-in-hand with engineering teams (front-end, middleware, back-end, QA) to ensure high-quality implementation of design solutions.
• Participate in design critiques, reviews, and guilds to help refine the design process and uphold design quality across the team.
• Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and product metrics to evaluate the effectiveness and impact of your design work.
• Contribute to and maintain the design system—creating and updating reusable components and visual assets (e.g., icons, illustrations, typography) to expand the system's core libraries.
• Ensure designs follow accessibility standards and support inclusive experiences for a global audience.

Preferred Education, Technical Skills, and Experience

• BA/BS in a design-related field (e.g., Interaction Design, Visual Communication, Product Design) or equivalent practical experience.
• 5–7 years of experience working in digital product or UX/UI design teams.
• Experience collaborating with distributed and remote teams.
• Familiarity with product-led growth principles and UX research practices within agile or iterative development cycles.
• Strong foundation in visual and interaction design principles—typography, layout, grid systems, color, hierarchy, and composition.
• General understanding of computer science principles and how modern software is built.
• A strong portfolio or real-world case studies demonstrating T-shaped design skills and recent work.
• Proficiency with design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, etc.).Knowledge of AI tools will be considered an added advantage.
• Experience in the cloud hosting industry is preferred.

Preferred Personality Traits

• Strong work ethic with a willingness to go above and beyond when needed.
• Curious, quick learner, and eager to explore new industries and technologies.
• Comfortable working in ambiguity and helping define problems from the ground up.
• Thrive in a fast-paced, startup-like environment with a focus on iterative design and end-to-end product ownership.
• Embrace the "build fast" mindset—delivering practical, user-friendly solutions quickly and efficiently.
• Future-focused, with a desire to shape the design culture and practices of DigitalOcean through modern processes and innovation.

Why You'll Like Working for DigitalOcean:

• We are proud to work here. You'll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud computing 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 your overall well-being, from one-time work from home stipend to wellness allowance 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.
• We value diversity and inclusion. We are an equal-opportunity employer, and recognize that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams and products to serve our customers. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. 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.

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