Digital Experience Designer

Do you ever wonder what happens inside the cloud?

Headquartered in New York but based around the world, DigitalOcean is a dynamic, high-growth technology company that serves a robust and passionate community of developers around the world. Our mission is to simplify cloud computing for every developer. We are working on solving some of the most challenging and interesting technology projects around, on a scale unmatched by most.

We want people who are passionate about creating experiences that empower millions of developers around the world.

The Digital Experience (DX) team's goal is to deliver delightful digital customer experiences as the primary steward of DO's brand across our digital properties. As a Designer, reporting to the Creative Director, your role will be to create assets, illustrations, and other touchpoints that help grow and support the DO brand while enabling our potential customers to engage with our products and services in meaningful ways.

As a member of our team, you will work closely in an efficient and expeditious environment with a team of developers, designers, program managers, and other stakeholders to create branded solutions across various DigitalOcean digital properties. You will help lead the charge in defining and implementing what our brand looks and feels like, working with other designers, developers, and stakeholders to create thoughtful solutions to the problems presented to you. You will always be ready to talk to users, ask questions when you need to, and explain how you came to a solution when called on.

This role will help us shape the DigitalOcean brand for the future, bringing life to our team's goals in 2022 and beyond. If you're excited about tackling new challenges with a growing world-class brand, we want to hear from you.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Work on new design initiatives from concept to final hand-off across various departments to fulfill business and product needs, including net-new visual designs as well as production design projects - always making brand design decisions with the customer and user in mind. Initiatives include:
• Marketing site
• Community site
• Blog
• Events (internal and external)
• Product launches
• Campaigns
• Promotional assets
• Illustrations
• Design system contributions
• Grow our design systems and guidelines, developing and fostering consistency with our brand documentation while also contributing to our design system and component library
• Effectively manage project deliverables and deadlines by communicating effectively with a diverse set of stakeholders - including being able to present and defend designs and key deliverables - as well as comfort and familiarity with tools like Jira.
• Working across multiple initiatives and programs, including but not limited to: our marketing site, community site, blog, events (both internal and external), product launches, campaigns, promotional touchpoints, supporting illustrations, etc.

What You'll Add to DigitalOcean:

• A portfolio must be required for consideration
• Exhibit creativity and problem-solving skills in a fast-paced environment
• A deep sense of care for the details
• Ability to run existing design initiatives with guidance from team leaders and peers
• Effortless ability to produce multiple options based on the creative brief
• Consistently meeting or beating deadlines while considering how we can streamline future workflows
• Ability to comprehensively articulate creative directions and design decisions with input from stakeholders and design peers
• Demonstrate creative thinking and problem solving by bringing well-thought-out ideas to the table in an organized manner along with a plan for implementation
• Ability to receive and take action from feedback, choose what's actionable and what's not, and collaborate with other team members to find the best solution
• Incorporate existing brand styles and components to deliver refined visual concepts while still holding space to push for improvements
• Exhibit a team-forward mindset
• Love what you do and lead by example
• Detail orientation, punctuality, and empathy are of the utmost importance
• Experience using design tools such as Figma and Adobe Creative Suite. Added plus for any additional program knowledge

Why You'll Like Working for DigitalOcean:

• We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on relevant years of experience and skills. Employees may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees including grants of equity upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
• We value development. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that is always challenging our teams and employees to continuously grow. We maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development through formalized mentorship and other internal programs. We provide all employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
• We care about your well-being. In addition to cash and equity compensation, we also offer employees a competitive array of benefits. In the United States, these include health insurance, unlimited vacation, retirement benefits, a generous parental leave program, and additional resources to support employees' overall well-being. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary in other countries due to local regulations and preferences.
• We value diversity and inclusivity. We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

• This is a remote role

• Salary range of $90,000 to $110,000

• Bonus of 7.5%

• ESPP employee contribution

• Equity Programs

• Medical, Dental, Vision offered and costs covered by DigitalOcean up to 90%

• Gym Stipend of $100/month

• Internet/Phone Stipend of $200/month

• 401(k) match up to 4% with no vesting

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