Staff Product Designer: Design Systems & Console UX

DigitalOcean; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 193,000 - 241,000; Full time

Job summary

DigitalOcean is seeking an experienced product designer to own the console experience from login to daily workflows. You will elevate the design system, set quality standards, and drive reusable patterns that multiple teams can adopt, ensuring a cohesive product.

Work closely with engineers to ensure designs land as intended and uplift frontend skills through a design guild and reviews. You will influence direction with a strong, opinionated vision for the product.

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 measurable UX impact.
• Ability to drive quality and adoption through influence across dozens of teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end design of the console experience from login through daily workflows.
• Treat the design system as the product and roadmap its patterns with engineering.
• Set craft and quality standards for the product suite to ensure consistent UI.
• Build reusable patterns to enable rapid, well-designed UI across teams.
• Own navigational surfaces and onboarding as reference examples for others.
• Collaborate with engineers to ensure designs land as intended and uplift UI skills.
• Advocate for simplicity and strong UX as a differentiator with evidence.

Skills

Design systems

Systems thinking

UX craft

Influence without authority

Job description

DigitalOcean is seeking an experienced product designer to own the console experience from login to daily workflows. You will elevate the design system, set quality standards, and drive reusable patterns that multiple teams can adopt, ensuring a cohesive product.

Work closely with engineers to ensure designs land as intended and uplift frontend skills through a design guild and reviews. You will influence direction with a strong, opinionated vision for the product.