Senior Product Designer - Developer Experience

Summary

Join Octopus Deploy as a Senior Product Designer on the Developer Experience (DevEx) team! You will work on projects reshaping developer workflows, driving efficiency and satisfaction. The role involves solving complex problems, advocating for developer-centric solutions, and crafting scalable designs for enterprise environments. This remote role, based in Australia or New Zealand, requires 5+ years of experience in product design, preferably in developer or technical infrastructure products. You will collaborate with Product Managers and Engineers in an agile environment. Compensation includes a competitive salary and benefits such as annual leave, paid sick leave, parental leave, and stock options.

Requirements

• Have 5+ years of experience in a Product Design role, preferably in developer or technical infrastructure products
• Demonstrate a proven ability to use generative and evaluative research methods to generate valuable insights and translate them into actionable design solutions
• Have experience working alongside Product Managers and Engineers in an agile environment as a member of a product leadership trio
• Possess an understanding of daily developer workflows and experience with tools like IDEs, source control, builds, and deployment systems
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to articulate and advocate for design decisions
• Have a portfolio showcasing success in designing for developer tooling or platforms, demonstrating your ability to solve complex problems and deliver impactful solutions

Responsibilities

• Conduct user research with the team’s Product Manager such as interviews or usability testing to gather insights into developer workflows
• Collaborate with your Leadership Team to make UX scoping decisions
• Pair with a Software Engineer or another designer to solve a UX or UI challenge
• Facilitate a team workshop to uncover assumptions or conduct ideation
• Write and iterate on documentation, such as design specifications or user personas
• Work with our design system team to make contributions to shared components
• Mentor other designers and share your expertise with the team

Preferred Qualifications

• Have a software engineering background
• Have basic experience contributing to software or websites via code and committing to source control
• Have a strong understanding of software development concepts and shared component design

Benefits

• A minimum of 25 days annual leave
• Up to 10 days of paid sick and carers leave
• 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave with flexible return options
• Stock options
• Remote work