VP, Product Design

Summary

Join Octopus as a Design Leader and be the ambassador of our product experience, inspiring a vision and empowering designers. You will deeply consider human factors in design across various interfaces, oversee customer research, shape design practices, and monitor product experience impact. Collaborate with product and engineering leadership on R&D, work with various teams, and be part of the R&D leadership team. The role requires experience leading managers and principal ICs in B2B software, cross-functional collaboration, and excellent communication skills. Benefits include a minimum of 25 days annual leave, paid sick and carers leave, 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, and stock options.

Requirements

• Cultivated a sense of what well-executed design looks like for B2B software products
• Experience with working with cross-functional software product teams
• Experience with engaging customers and cross-functional stakeholders at various levels
• Experience at a Director level or higher -- leading managers and principal ICs
• Be pragmatic and adaptable, as working in a scale-up is an ever-changing environment
• Have exceptional organizational and analytical skills, along with attention to detail
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

• Think deeply about the design of human factors for individuals, teams, and organization-scale operations
• Hold a high bar for a technical product experience that spans the web, command line, desired state code, scripts, APIs, and chat interfaces so that we can shape the most critical patterns in our design system
• Oversee a range of customer research efforts to ensure we capture the human factors of problems, and the design considerations are represented in opportunities that product groups and teams are pursuing
• Shape the design practice with design managers, enabling everyone to make career-defining contributions
• Monitor the overall impact of our product experience, setting the bar for what good looks like and spotting emerging trends and issues
• Partner with product and engineering leadership on R&D initiatives and structure

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in product expansion, where new potential paths were being explored
• Experience in product design of developer products with multiple interface types
• Worked in both a product-led and sales-led B2B product company

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