Senior Product Designer

We’re looking for a designer who is passionate about creating intuitive, user-centered designs that help developers be more productive and successful.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead design efforts on significant project components, from inception to delivery, with the support of the Lead Product Designer.
• Create concepts, wireframes, user flows, high fidelity designs and prototypes, and documentation articulating your design decisions that shape project outcomes
• Design and lead collaborative working sessions with design, research, writers, engineers, and product leadership to align on strategic and tactical decisions for our team
• Design and lead customer research efforts, including conducting interviews, designing surveys, and analyzing data to help inform product and design next steps
• Staying up to date with the latest in the AI/ML industry and evangelizing and incorporating what you learn into what you’re working on
• Participate in weekly design crits and collaborate with eng, research, tech writers, and product leadership during team ceremonies and working sessions
• Provide guidance and mentorship to other designers and stakeholders, and contribute to design culture by contributing to and enhancing our design systems and processes.

What we’re looking for

• 4-6 years product design experience building developer-centric tooling or platforms
• T-shaped skills: You can write everything from UX microcopy to long-form design rationale, assist and even lead collaborative working sessions, plan and participate in user research, create complex prototypes, design visually stunning UI, and problem solve through user flows, journey maps, wireframes, screens, and text. You are ready and excited to become the AI UX expert for the company.
• Efficient and effective: You are able to work independently, and you know how to work fast and deliver assets easily understood by our engineers and product partners. You thrive in high pressure delivery environments and know how to shape strategic outcomes.
• Effective Communicator and Team Player: Excel in verbal and written communication, and 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.
• Stakeholder Savvy and Adaptable: gain feedback from multiple stakeholders, keep them informed about impactful changes, and adjust strategies and deliverables as needed to balance business demands and user needs.
• Generative AI experience: Designing conversational interfaces, data-heavy experiences around observability, and translating tabular data into visual experiences are a plus. You’ve used the big generative AI names in the industry and have opinions about how they can be made better.

What we need from you to apply

• A link to your portfolio or previous work so we can see what you delivered and understand the thinking that went into your design decisions. 
• Your cover letter explaining why you would be great at DigitalOcean in response to this job description.
• Your resume to give us a quick idea of what you’ve been up to and what you accomplished before arriving in our job application queue.

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 $100,000 - $115,000 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.

*This is a remote role

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