Full-Time

Manager – Product Design

Updated on 12/21/2024

DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean

1,001-5,000 employees

Cloud computing platform for developers

Data & Analytics
Enterprise Software

Compensation Overview

$141.1k - $211.6kAnnually

+ Bonus + Equity Compensation

Senior, Expert

Denver, CO, USA

This is a remote role, but Denver is the listed job location.

Category
Product & UX/UI Design
UI/UX & Design
Required Skills
UI/UX Design
Product Design
Requirements
  • Significant experience designing for complex, technical Cloud services.
  • Hands-on experience designing SaaS and AI/ML products will be preferable.
  • Strong ability to handle ambiguity and drive clarity around user-experience.
  • A relentless focus on standards, consistency, and high-quality user experience design.
  • Experience driving best-practices around content discovery, customer onboarding, and driving engagement.
  • A track record of managing a high-performing design team, developing talent, and delivering results in a dynamic environment.
  • Ability to collaborate with engineering teams on a highly technical product and advocate for a developer-centric customer base.
  • Ability to run productive meetings, create effective and useful product design documents, and maintain alignment across a complex product portfolio.
Responsibilities
  • Set up and lead a compelling vision around user experience for our key AI/ML and PaaS products, maintaining consistently high standards for the overall developer experience.
  • Drive execution of the user experience design for our products, defining and implementing best practices around product design/UX methodology.
  • Work collaboratively with design, marketing, and product management teams to elevate our user experience to achieve consistency across touchpoints and support the execution of our core products.
  • Contribute to the definition of scope, objectives and key results for the AI/ML and PaaS business units.
  • Collaborate with our engineering team to develop and maintain our design artifacts and UI.
  • Hire and develop a strong team of UX designers.

DigitalOcean provides cloud computing services that enable developers and businesses to build, deploy, and scale applications efficiently. Its platform offers a range of fully managed services that simplify the process of managing infrastructure, allowing users to focus on software development. DigitalOcean stands out from competitors by emphasizing simplicity, a strong community, and open-source support, which helps users quickly get started and find solutions. The company's goal is to empower developers and small to medium-sized businesses to innovate and grow by reducing the time spent on infrastructure management.

Company Stage

IPO

Total Funding

$168.5M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2012

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

8%

1 year growth

14%

2 year growth

29%
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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Growing demand for cloud-native tools aligns with DigitalOcean's offerings.
  • Rising Kubernetes adoption benefits DigitalOcean's Kubernetes services.
  • Expansion of the global developer community increases DigitalOcean's customer base.

What critics are saying

  • Increased competition from Vultr with a matching $3.5 billion valuation.
  • Potential over-reliance on Ceph for storage solutions poses risks.
  • Operational complexity may rise with new features like Droplet Autoscale Pools.

What makes DigitalOcean unique

  • DigitalOcean offers a no DevOps required experience for developers.
  • The company focuses on simplicity and open source to attract developers.
  • DigitalOcean's mission-critical infrastructure supports rapid application deployment and scaling.

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Benefits

Remote-first

Full health coverage

Wellness coverage

Flexible vacation time

Team-building & social events

401(k) plans

ESPP

Education support

Partner support

Employee giving