Senior Product Designer - Developer Experience

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.
Step into an impactful role as a Senior Product Designer on the Developer Experience (DevEx) team at Octopus Deploy!Here, you’ll work on projects that reshape developer workflows, driving efficiency and satisfaction for a primary persona of our user base.
The DevEx team’s mission is to help application developers get changes into production quickly and safely, in a sustainable way. Working alongside the DevEx Leadership Team, you’ll be key in designing solutions that build confidence for developers that changes will be successful when they reach production.
As the Senior Product Designer, your role will involve solving complex problems, advocating for developer-centric solutions, and crafting scalable designs tailored to enterprise environments. This is a high-impact role where you’ll influence the future of our product while collaborating with a passionate, multidisciplinary team.
As a member of the Design Team, you’ll stay connected and supported through team rituals that encourage collaboration and knowledge sharing.
This is a remote role based in Australia or New Zealand.

You will be a great fit for this role if you have:

• 5+ years of experience in a Product Design role, preferably in developer or technical infrastructure products.
• Proven ability to use generative and evaluative research methods to generate valuable insights and translate them into actionable design solutions.
• Experience working alongside Product Managers and Engineers in an agile environment as a member of a product leadership trio.
• An understanding of daily developer workflows and experience with tools like IDEs, source control, builds, and deployment systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to articulate and advocate for design decisions.
• A portfolio showcasing success in designing for developer tooling or platforms, demonstrating your ability to solve complex problems and deliver impactful solutions.
• A software engineering background would be a nice-to-have, but not essential. Basic experience contributing to software or websites via code and committing to source control.
• Strong understanding of software development concepts and shared component design.

You will enjoy this role if:

• You enjoy reducing friction in daily use workflows, from everyday pain to reimagining a better way for the target persona.
• You thrive in a collaborative environment, solving problems alongside Software Engineers and Product Managers. You work openly to bounce ideas off Product Designers in other teams.
• You are proactive in anticipating challenges and organizing research and design work with minimal direction.
• You have a keen interest in creating consistent, scalable solutions for enterprise products while contributing to design systems.
• You can continuously guide your learning journey through a complex product and its domain.

A typical day might include:

• Conducting user research with the team’s Product Manager such as interviews or usability testing to gather insights into developer workflows.
• Collaborating with your Leadership Team to make UX scoping decisions. 
• Pairing with a Software Engineer or another designer to solve a UX or UI challenge.
• Facilitating a team workshop to uncover assumptions or conduct ideation.
• Writing and iterating on documentation, such as design specifications or user personas.
• Working with our design system team to make contributions to shared components.
• Mentoring other designers and sharing your expertise with the team.

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): Maturing: $135k AUD / $145k NZD, Performing: $145k AUD / $155k NZD
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. 
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