Octopus Deploy · 3 months ago
Assoc. Design Director - Enterprise Scale
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
AU$190K/yr - AU$215K/yr
12+ years expOctopus Deploy is a profitable scale-up that empowers software teams to deliver value in an agile way. They are seeking a Design Director to lead the evolution of enterprise-scale experiences, focusing on trust, governance, and identity while guiding a team of talented designers. This role involves championing the needs of enterprise customers and partnering across teams to deliver unified experiences for large clients.
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Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
Has 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
Company
Octopus Deploy
Accelerate software delivery with repeatable deployments.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$204.13MKey Investors
Insight PartnersRedgate Software
2025-10-08Series Unknown· $29.63M
2021-04-20Series A· $172.5M
2014-10-02Corporate Round· $2M
Leadership Team
Paul Stovell
Founder and CEO
Colin Bowern
SVP Product
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