About the Role

Role details below.

Lead product design across the Core CD domain, supporting and growing a team of Product Designers
Act as a player-coach close to the details, both shaping strategy with key partners and stepping into driving specific initiatives
Champion design for both Day 1 and Day 200: from first-time setup to long-term enterprise operations across thousands of engineers and multiple business units
Work with Product & Engineering peers to lead your group and establish systems for high-quality execution on feature development
Champion the needs of DevOps and Application Engineers, shaping multi-touchpoint journeys that extend beyond the product itself
Pave the way for how we measure the experience for our core customer journeys, helping us hold the right bar for quality
Partner with Sales, Marketing, CSM, and TAMs to influence the core deployment experience
Drive coherence and consistency across core product experiences, ensuring Octopus feels unified and unmistakably ours
Inspire teams with compelling narratives that link design to customer and business outcomes

7+ years of product design experience
Ideally 3+ years of experience in developer-facing tools or technical B2B platforms
Ability to thrive in complexity: mapping multi-stakeholder journeys, anticipating edge cases, and balancing effortless UX with enterprise-grade requirements
Proven experience leading and growing designers, creating conditions for quality and impact
Strong toolkit as a design practitioner, including skills in journey mapping, vision casting, prototyping, customer research, and other sense-making artifacts
Ability to influence and align executives, peers, and cross-functional leaders around ambitious product experiences
Clear and inspiring communication skills to help teams connect daily decisions to the bigger picture
Systems mindset to spot cross-portfolio opportunities and coach others to steward quality

Structure: Lead Product Designer leading a team of 2 Product Designers working on the Core CD mission

This role is pivotal in shaping the experience at the core of Octopus's primary value proposition: getting software to production safely, reliably, and at scale
The company is at an inflection point with AI increasing the volume of changes in pipelines, requiring enterprise-grade rigor in delivery
The Lead Product Designer will help define how human + AI software delivery evolves
The role has real autonomy and impact, setting the standard for a world-class path to production experience
Visible design leadership expected

Octopus Deploy is hiring a Lead Product Designer