Senior Digital Experience Designer

We are looking for a Senior Digital Experience Designer who is passionate about crafting leading interactive experiences that excite and engage users.

As a Senior Digital Experience Designer at DigitalOcean, you will join a dynamic team dedicated to revolutionizing cloud computing. The DigitalOcean Digital Experience (DODX) team’s goal is to deliver delightful digital customer experiences across our digital touchpoints. As a designer, reporting to the Creative Director, your role will be to create assets, illustrations, and other interactive deliverables that help grow and support the DO brand while enabling our prospects and 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 and interactive 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, 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 2025 and beyond. If you’re excited about tackling new challenges with an industry-leading brand, we want to hear from you.

What You’ll Do:

• Work on interactive and static design initiatives from concept to final hand-off across various departments to fulfill business and product needs, including net-new visual designs - always making brand design decisions with the customer and user in mind. Initiatives include but are not limited to: marketing site, community site, blog, events (internal and external), product launches and demos, campaigns, promotional assets, illustrations, and 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.
• Create compelling and interactive brand experiences that help people understand our platform's simplicity, predictable pricing, support expertise, and our reliability.
• Work in tools like Jira, Gsuite, Figma, Adobe Illustrator, Lotti, After Effects, other Adobe Creative Cloud tools, and other current tools.

Key Metrics:

• Working across website experimentation metrics including the following:
• Acquisition metrics (UVEC's and Completed signups)
• New customer revenue (engaged signups, billables)
• NDR (expansion campaigns)
• AI/ML signups
• Causality (experimentation platform - A/B/n testing)

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, with an emphasis on interactive design.

Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean

• We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions. We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.
• We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
• We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is $90,000 - $115,000 based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You 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 equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program. 
• We value diversity and inclusion. We are an equal-opportunity employer, and recognize that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams and products to serve our customers. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.

This is a remote role

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