Product Designer

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. 

As a Product Designer, you will be responsible for crafting innovative and user-centric product experiences. Your role will involve transforming complex workflows and information into intuitive and visually appealing products and its features. By leveraging your expertise in product design, interaction design, and visual design, you will continually evaluate and refine our products to ensure they meet the highest standards of quality and usability. Through collaboration with cross-functional teams, you will contribute to the development of innovative solutions that address user needs and drive business objectives.

What You'll Do:

• You will work alongside a talented team of product managers, designers, researchers, and engineers to craft user experience solutions (including but not limited to design information architecture, interactions, content, and navigation) that align with business objectives and user needs. 
• You should be able to use human-centered design methodologies and practices to transform complex, abstract concepts and challenges into well-articulated and simple solutions by analyzing collected data, creating workflows, wireframes, design mockups and prototypes.
• You will work with product managers and user researchers to understand the problems and earn trust with key partners to develop a shared vision hence design solutions. You will also work with engineers (front-end, middleware, backend and QA) to work through the structured process to implement design solutions. 
• You will also participate in design reviews, critiques and guilds to help develop more effective and rich designs within the team. You should also be able to track KPIs and related-product metrics to observe and demonstrate the impact of the team's created solutions. 
• You will create, manage and ensure implementation of the existing design system, with continuously updating the components by creating visual assets to grow the core libraries (icons, illustrations, typography, and more).
• You should also ensure adherence to accessibility guidelines while keeping inclusivity top-of-mind to design for an audience based in various countries across the globe. 

Key Metrics: (optional)

• User Satisfaction (CSAT/NPS/UX Score)
  •  Measure improvements in user experience quality through usability testing scores, CSAT, or NPS before and after design changes.
• Product Adoption & Engagement Rate 
  • Track how many users adopt and actively engage with newly designed features (e.g., % increase in feature usage).
• Conversion & Task Completion Rate 
  • Measure how well design changes help users complete key workflows (e.g., reduced drop-offs, improved conversion rates in a funnel).
• Design System Contribution 
  •  Track the number of reusable components, patterns, or visual assets created/updated, showing impact on scalability and consistency.
• Cross-Team Efficiency 
  • Measure reduced iteration cycles or faster design-to-dev handoff (e.g., % decrease in rework due to better alignment with PMs/engineers).

Preferred Educational, Technical, and Professional Expertise

• BA/BS degree in Design (e.g., Interaction, Graphic, Visual Communications, Product, Industrial Design) or a related field or equivalent experience
• At least 4 to 5 years of experience working in digital or design teams
• Experience working with distributed or remote teams.
• Practitioner of product-led growth techniques.
• Familiar with doing UX research and design within iterative development.
• Solid understanding of fundamental design principles (typography, layout, grid systems, hierarchy, color, composition)
• Familiarity with basic concepts of computer science and the modern software industry.
• Demonstrate T-shaped skills through their portfolio or case studies with recent, real-life work samples
• Experience with a wide range of design and prototyping tools such as but not limited to Figma, Adobe Creative Suite and so on. 
• Basic knowledge of front-end development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)

Preferred Personality Attributes

• You have a stellar work ethic and can go the extra mile when needed.
• You enjoy learning about new industries and are a quick study; a lifelong learner and tech-savvy.
• You are comfortable with ambiguity - you embrace constraints and the unknown; you help discover and define the problem space.
• You like working in a start-up-style environment, where iteration is encouraged and design acumen is demonstrated through design end-to-end product ownership.
• You are comfortable embracing the DigitalOcean fast philosophy to rapidly develop and implement designs, ensuring quick, efficient, and user-friendly experiences.
• You are future-focused - shaping the future of design at DigitalOcean with a deep understanding of modern processes and operational models.

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.

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