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"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
— Steve Jobs
Lead the design strategy for platform products focusing on infrastructure provisioning and AI-driven application modernization. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure user-centered design and technical feasibility in product development.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the design vision for platform products in alignment with business goals and technical capabilities
- Lead the end-to-end design process including discovery, ideation, prototyping and delivery for both infrastructure and application platforms
- Collaborate with engineering, architecture and product teams to understand platform capabilities and constraints
- Translate complex technical workflows into intuitive design systems and user experiences
- Champion the needs of users including application engineers, site reliability engineers and product teams
- Conduct user research, usability testing and feedback loops to inform design decisions
- Establish and maintain scalable design systems that ensure consistency and accessibility across platform interfaces
- Ensure all design outputs are technically feasible and aligns to group technology strategy
- Partner with crew leads, crew tech leads, product owners, engineers and business stakeholders to co-create platform features and experiences
- Advocate for design excellence and user empathy in technical and strategic conversations
Requirements
- Proven experience designing complex technical products, ideally in platform or infrastructure domains
- Strong understanding of cloud technologies, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines and modern application architectures
- Expertise in interaction design, systems thinking and information architecture
- Ability to translate technical concepts into intuitive user experiences
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills, especially when engaging with technical audiences
- Experience with developer platforms, engineering tooling or enterprise-grade infrastructure products (preferred)
Key Skills
- Proven experience designing complex technical products, ideally in platform or infrastructure domains
- Strong understanding of cloud technologies, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines and modern application architectures
- Expertise in interaction design, systems thinking and information architecture
- Ability to translate technical concepts into intuitive user experiences
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills, especially when engaging with technical audiences
- Experience with developer platforms, engineering tooling or enterprise-grade infrastructure products (preferred)
Benefits
- Unique opportunity to shape the future of platform design in a deeply technical environment
- Work alongside world-class engineers and product leaders to build tools that empower teams and transform how infrastructure and applications are delivered
- Support with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time each month connecting in office
About Commonwealth Bank
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