Staff Product Designer, Console Experience

The role

You will own the end-to-end design of the console experience and its design system. You will build reusable frameworks, patterns, and guidance for product teams to ensure a coherent product.

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end design of the console experience.
• Treat the design system as the product by owning the component library, patterns, and visual/interaction standards.
• Set the craft and quality bar for the whole product suite.
• Build reusable, high-leverage patterns.
• Own high-visibility shared surfaces like navigation, onboarding, app shell, and landing pages.
• Work closely with engineering to ensure designs land in the product.
• Grow the design skills of UI engineers through a design guild, reviews, and pairing.
• Back up requests for more design investment with evidence.
• Own the creative vision for the console.

Required qualifications

• Staff-level product design experience with a proven track record of building and scaling a design system.
• Systems thinker who designs for reuse and consistency at scale.
• Strong, well-rounded craft across interaction, visual, and information design.
• Portfolio that shows taste and measurable UX impact.
• History of driving quality and adoption through influence rather than authority.
• Comfort being the most senior or only designer in the room.
• Strong, opinionated point of view on design.
• Solid collaboration with engineers.

Nice to have

• Hands-on knowledge of front-end constraints and how design systems live in code
• Experience running or scaling a design system guild or community of practice
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure concepts (compute, storage, networking, Kubernetes)
• Experience designing for both novice and expert users within the same product

Benefits

• Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education
• Flexible time off
• Local team meetups
• Mental health and well being support
• Equity compensation
• Annual bonus plan

Before you apply

• You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period.

About the company

DigitalOcean is a technology company that builds scalable cloud infrastructure. They aim to simplify cloud and AI for builders.