[Hiring] Staff Product Designer @DigitalOcean

Role Description

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.

DigitalOcean's console is where every customer, from a solo developer to an enterprise platform team, comes to provision, manage, and scale their infrastructure. We're looking for a designer to own that experience end to end:

• Own the end-to-end design of the console experience, from first login through daily workflows for their users' entire experience.
• Treat the design system itself as the product: own the component library, patterns, and visual/interaction standards every team builds on, and plan its roadmap jointly with the engineering team.
• Set the craft and quality bar for the whole product suite, plus a review process that holds it in place, so consistent, polished UI is the normal outcome rather than something each team has to fight for on its own.
• Build reusable, high-leverage patterns instead of custom screens per team, so product teams can ship well-designed UI without needing a dedicated designer of their own.
• Own the highest-visibility shared surfaces (navigation, onboarding, app shell, landing pages) as the reference examples other teams design against.
• Work closely with engineering to make sure designs land in the product as intended, and grow the design skills of the UI engineers embedded on product teams through a design guild, reviews, and pairing.
• Make simplicity and strong UX a real point of differentiation again, and back up requests for more design investment with evidence of where it will pay off.
• Own the creative vision for the console: bring a clear, opinionated point of view on what the experience should look and feel like, not just the systems that keep it consistent.

Qualifications

• Staff-level product design experience with a proven track record of building and scaling a design system across many products or teams.
• A systems thinker who designs for reuse and consistency at scale rather than one-off screens, and understands the leverage that good patterns create.
• Strong, well-rounded craft across interaction, visual, and information design, backed by a portfolio that shows both taste and measurable UX impact.
• A history of driving quality and adoption through influence rather than authority, working across dozens of teams via standards, partnership, and persuasion.
• Comfort being the most senior (and possibly only) designer in the room, setting direction under ambiguity.
• A strong, opinionated point of view on design, and the conviction to own the creative direction of the product rather than just its consistency.
• Solid collaboration with engineers, with hands-on knowledge of front-end constraints and how design systems actually live in code as a strong plus.

Requirements

• Experience running or scaling a design system guild or community of practice across a large engineering org.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure concepts (compute, storage, networking, Kubernetes) or a track record of ramping up quickly on technical domains.
• Experience designing for both novice and expert users within the same product.

Compensation Range

$192,800 - $241,000

*This is a remote role

JR: 2026-8165

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Benefits

• 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.
• 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 care about your well-being.
• Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you.
• We reward our employees.
• The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills.

Company Description

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.

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