Senior Product Designer II, PaaS

Design intuitive and cohesive user experiences while collaborating with Product Managers and Engineers. Lead projects that drive significant value for customers and the business.

Responsibilities

• Spearhead Innovation: Design intuitive and cohesive user experiences that are engaging, straightforward, and secure. Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineers to create impactful interactions that exceed user expectations.
• Empower Users: Focus on human-centered design principles to enhance user capabilities and respect their needs, driving satisfaction and aligning with strategic goals.
• Drive DO Simple: Transform complexity into clarity, ensuring interactions are intuitive and user-friendly. Optimize essential processes for seamless user experiences.
• Ensure Relevance: Create contextually relevant experiences for users of varying technical proficiency, addressing the evolving needs of developers and their teams.
• Foster Enjoyment: Make development delightful by creating engaging and enjoyable experiences, encouraging continuous innovation and positivity across the team.
• Move DO Fast: Embrace the DO Fast philosophy to rapidly develop and implement designs, ensuring quick, efficient, and user-friendly experiences.
• Identify and Act Quickly: Move rapidly from opportunity to concept to design, creating multiple options to maintain momentum.
• Deliver Impact: Lead and contribute to projects that drive significant value for customers and the business.
• Design End-to-End User Flows: Create complete experiences that address current and future user needs and pain points.
• Core Team Member: Influence product strategy and execution as part of the product team with Product Managers and Engineers.
• Communicate Clearly: Articulate and exhibit design perspectives and solutions to complex problems.
• Enhance System Integration: Improve design contributions by leveraging system-wide dependencies and technical specifics.
• Collaborate Technically: Work with engineering to resolve front-end issues and enhance product quality.
• Champion Collaboration: Unify and enhance the customer experience by working closely with designers and product teams, fostering a team-oriented environment.
• Monitor Progress: Track team progress, document challenges, and share proactive solutions.
• Lead Cross-Functional Projects: Contribute to significant projects across the company to achieve strategic objectives.
• Engage Company-Wide: Participate in company-wide events like Shark-A-Hack, showcasing skills and contributing to innovative projects.
• Drive KPI Improvements: Hypothesize how design can impact key performance indicators and solve product challenges. Monitor the impact of your design work on key business metrics.
• Advance Design Practices: Implement best practices and introduce industry-leading tools and methods to your design team and broader DigitalOcean design community.
• Foster Relationships: Maintain strong cross-functional relationships to ensure seamless collaboration.

Requirements

• Mid- to senior-level product design experience
• Passion for creating human-empowering, obvious, relevant, and enjoyable tools
• Experience with human-centered design principles
• Ability to transform complexity into clarity
• Experience with system-wide dependencies and technical specifics
• Effective communication and collaboration skills
• Accessibility advocacy
• Organizational skills
• Lifelong learning and technical product design interest
• Stakeholder engagement

Key Skills

• Mid- to senior-level product design experience
• Human-centered design principles
• Complexity transformation
• System-wide dependencies
• Technical specifics
• Effective communication
• Collaboration
• Accessibility advocacy
• Organizational skills
• Lifelong learning
• Technical product design interest
• Stakeholder engagement

Benefits

• Competitive array of benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Local Employee Meetups
• Flexible time off policy
• Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education
• Access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses