Role

Octopus Deploy is seeking a Senior Product Designer with strengths in system thinking and refined interaction design. Our products’ primary audience is Software Engineers. Do you have a knack for understanding technical concepts? Are you driven to solve complex problems? Can you arrive at creative, scalable, and feasible UI solutions? We are keen to hear from you! Aligning with our company objectives, you will contribute to our components, patterns, and cross-cutting product experiences. Octopus Design System has a hybrid contribution model, in which you will provide guidance and support to other teams with a collaborative mindset.

About the team

The Frontend Foundations team is the custodians of the Octopus Deploy Design System. We care about our team members delivering quality at speed. You will be working in collaboration with our Lead Designer to tackle complex work. You can view our Design System and read our latest blog post, Vertical Navigation. This is a remote role based in Australia or New Zealand.

What you'll do

Use known and effective discovery methods to deeply understand the problem at hand.
Collaborate with designers and engineers to discover, ideate, and deliver solutions.
Provide solutions that balance long-term goals with incremental value delivery.
Provide guidance and support to our internal teams on design system process, components, patterns, and tooling.
Provide well-written, concise design documentation to guide designers and engineers.
Uphold design system ways of working while looking for opportunities to enhance our processes.
Be an excellent communicator with the ability to influence and tell compelling stories.

What you'll bring

2+ years of working with a design system that multiple teams use
7+ years of working in product design
Experience working on a b2b saas product or complex domain space
Experience with implementing and maintaining design tokens at scale
Experience with behavioral analytics and data-driven outcomes
Experience with usability testing and communicating research findings
Expert proficiency in Figma
Basic understanding of front-end development (HTML, CSS, JS)

Equal Opportunity

We’ve built an inclusive workplace culture and understand the importance of culture-add versus culture-fit. You'll have a buddy from day one to help you get your bearings. You can also schedule coffee chats with anyone in the company. We encourage everyone to have a voice in all product and business aspects. So much so that we have an open chat policy (all channels are public by default), and everyone is welcome! Also, when it comes to inclusivity, we mean it. Check out our handbook! If you’d like to work at Octopus, reach out and say hello!

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