Senior Product Designer - Design System

Octopus Deploy sets the standard for Continuous Delivery, empowering software teams to deliver value in an agile way. Over 4,000 organizations globally –  including Ubisoft, ASOS, Xero, monday.com, Stack Overflow, NASA, and Disney – rely on our Continuous Delivery, GitOps, and release orchestration solutions. 

Founded in Australia in 2012, our team of over 300 Octonauts now spans the globe. We combine high growth and big ambitions with a sustainable, balanced working environment. Our revenue has grown consistently between 30–50% every year for the past 8 years, and we’ve been profitable for 10 out of the past 11 years.

We’ve been remote-first since 2015 and work with an uncommon level of transparency. You can read our public handbook to learn how we work. We have a transparent approach to compensation that ensures people doing the same work with the same skill get paid the same, with well-defined career pathways. We foster a supportive, collaborative, and high-trust environment. We leave our job titles at the door and focus on doing what’s best for our customers and team. Our leaders never shy away from answering the tough questions at our all-hands calls or in 1:1s. We conduct interviews and onboarding virtually as part of being a remote-first company.

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.

• 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.

• 2+ years of working with a design system that multiple teams use
• 5+ 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)

• 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!

Compensation:

Octopus has an internally open and transparent system for compensation. Any Octonaut can view the compensation for any role at any level. This ensures people doing the same work with the same skill get paid the same. 

The compensation for this role is:

Level 3 - Senior Product Designer

Australia

Maturing: $135k Performing: $145k

New Zealand

Maturing: $145k Performing: $155k

Salaries exclude Super and Kiwi Saver.

Benefits include 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, and stock options. Learn more.

Below is the interview process you can expect for this role. We know interviewing can seem daunting, but rest assured we designed our interview process to move quickly while still getting you all the information you need.

Interview process (~3 hours total)

Here's what you can anticipate in the interview process for this position. It's also your opportunity to gather the details you need to decide if we're the perfect match for you.

Step 1 [30m] – 👋 Introduction and Recruiter Screen

Step 2 [60m] – ☕️ Interview with a hiring manager and another Octonaut, where we delve further into your experience

Step 3 [1hr 30m] – 📽️ Portfolio presentation followed by general Q&A where you'll have the opportunity to ask any of your unanswered questions

Our public employee handbook is the best place to learn more about life at Octopus. It includes our values, how we structure teams, career progression, leave and benefits, and much more. 

If you're enthusiastic about this position, even if you don’t meet all the criteria above, we wholeheartedly encourage you to submit your application. Our talent team is in-house, and we recognize that every individual brings something unique. We take the time to review every application and consider how you might add to the team. 

We know your time is precious. If you apply, we promise to update you at least once per week about the status of your application and to give you clear expectations for each step in the journey. 

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• Pressure to act quickly or threats of losing the opportunity if immediate action is not taken.

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