Associate Design Director – Product Growth
Octopus Deploy
Associate Design Director – Enterprise Scale
Octopus Deploy
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇦🇺 Australia
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💰 A$190,000 - A$200,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Lead product design across the Enterprise Scale 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 enterprise customers (scale, admin, trust, governance), shaping multi-touchpoint journeys that extend beyond the product itself
- Pave the way for how we measure the experience for our enterprise cohort, helping us hold the right bar for quality
- Partner with Research, Sales, Marketing, CSM, and TAMs to influence the end-to-end enterprise experience
- Drive coherence and consistency across Enterprise experiences, ensuring Octopus feels unified and unmistakably ours
- Inspire teams with compelling narratives that link design to customer and business outcomes
Requirements
- 12+ years of product design experience, with substantial time in enterprise B2B SaaS or developer tooling
- Ideally designed for security-sensitive, admin, or governance-heavy workflows (CIAM, IAM, or platform-level administration experience is a big plus)
- Thrives in complexity: you can map multi-stakeholder journeys, anticipate edge cases, and balance effortless UX with enterprise-grade requirements
- Brings a strong toolkit as a design practitioner, with skills in journey mapping, vision casting, prototyping, customer research & other sense-making artefacts that articulate our customer experience.
- Has proven experience leading and growing designers, creating conditions for quality and impact
- Influences and aligns execs, peers, and cross-functional leaders around ambitious product experiences
- Communicates with clarity and inspiration, helping teams connect daily decisions to the bigger picture
- Brings a systems mindset, to spot cross-portfolio opportunities and coach others to steward quality
Benefits
- 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
- Stock options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
product designjourney mappingprototypingcustomer researchCIAMIAMenterprise B2B SaaSdeveloper toolingdesign practitionergovernance-heavy workflows
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationinfluencestrategic thinkingteam inspirationsystems mindsetcomplex problem solvingclarity in communicationcollaborationcustomer-centric thinking