Staff Product Designer — Console UX & Design System

digitalocean98; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 193,000 - 241,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid role

Job summary

DigitalOcean seeks a staff-level product designer to own the end-to-end console experience, from navigation to shared patterns across product teams. You’ll treat the design system as a product and guide its roadmap with engineering to ensure cohesive, high-quality UI across the platform.

You’ll lead reusable patterns, set the craft bar, and help teams ship well-designed interfaces at scale. This is a hybrid role with a strong emphasis on collaboration and impact.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and scaling design systems across multiple products or teams.
• Strong craft in interaction, visual, and information design with measurable UX impact.
• Ability to influence and lead across dozens of teams through standards and collaboration.
• Comfort being senior in the room, setting direction amidst ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end console design, from login to daily workflows across users.
• Treat the design system as a product and roadmap it with engineering for consistency.
• Set the craft and quality bar for the product suite and maintain a scalable review process.
• Build reusable patterns to enable product teams to ship well-designed UI at speed.
• Own navigation, onboarding, app shell, and landing pages as reference examples for teams.
• Collaborate closely with engineers to ensure designs land as intended and grow UI skills.

Skills

Design systems

Systems thinking

Cross-team collaboration

Portfolio of UX work

Job description

DigitalOcean seeks a staff-level product designer to own the end-to-end console experience, from navigation to shared patterns across product teams. You’ll treat the design system as a product and guide its roadmap with engineering to ensure cohesive, high-quality UI across the platform.

You’ll lead reusable patterns, set the craft bar, and help teams ship well-designed interfaces at scale. This is a hybrid role with a strong emphasis on collaboration and impact.