Staff Product Designer, Console Experience

DigitalOcean; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 193,000 - 241,000; Full time

Job summary

DigitalOcean seeks a staff-level product designer to own the console experience end to end—from navigation to daily workflows. You will treat the design system itself as the product: own the component library, patterns, and visual/interaction standards and roadmap with the engineering team.

You will set the craft bar for the entire product suite, build reusable patterns, and ensure cohesive UI across dozens of teams.

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.
• Strong craft across interaction, visual, and information design, with a portfolio showing measurable UX impact.
• Experience influencing across dozens of teams via standards, partnership, and persuasion.
• Comfort being the most senior designer in the room and owning the creative direction.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end design of the console experience, from first login through daily workflows for users' entire experience.
• Treat the design system itself as the product: own the component library, patterns, and visual/interaction standards with the engineering team.
• Set the craft and quality bar for the whole product suite, with a review process to ensure consistent UI.
• Build reusable, high-leverage patterns to avoid custom screens per team.
• Own the highest-visibility shared surfaces as reference examples for other teams.
• Collaborate with engineering to ensure designs land as intended and grow the UI engineers' design skills.
• Make simplicity and strong UX a differentiator, backing requests with evidence of payoff.
• Own the creative vision for the console and advocate for the overall experience, not just consistency.

Skills

Design systems

Product design

Interaction design

Visual design

Portfolio

Job 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. We value winning together-with learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world.

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: the navigation, the cross-product patterns, the moments where a dozen product teams' features have to feel like one coherent product.

What You'll Do

• 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.

What We're Looking For

• 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.

Nice to have

• 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 hybrid role

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 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.
• 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. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.