Associate Design Director – Enterprise Scale
Octopus Deploy
Associate Design Director – Product Growth
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
- define how thousands of engineers experience Octopus for the first time
- lead the design vision for onboarding, activation, and adoption across the Octopus platform
- represent Product Design in the Product Growth Leadership Team
- build and mentor a small but mighty team of Product Designers
- advocate for customers during critical evaluation journeys
Requirements
- 12+ years of product design experience, including leadership within product-led or SaaS growth environments.
- 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.
- shaped experiences for onboarding, activation, or lifecycle journeys, ideally in complex, technical or developer-facing products.
- understands how to balance experience excellence with commercial outcomes, translating design improvements into measurable business impact.
- brings a systems mindset, connecting product education, marketing, and in-product experiences into a unified growth loop.
- thrives in cross-functional spaces, aligning execs, peers, and teams across Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Sales.
- proven experience mentoring and growing designers, fostering both craft excellence and strategic thinking.
- communicates with clarity, influence, and storytelling, connecting day-to-day design decisions to the bigger vision.
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 mappingvision castingprototypingcustomer researchonboarding designactivation designlifecycle journey designdesign improvement measurementsystems mindset
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcross-functional collaborationcommunicationinfluencestorytellingstrategic thinkingcustomer advocacyclarity in communicationalignment