Job description
Octopus Deploy sets the standard for Continuous Delivery, empowering software teams to deliver value in an agile way. Over 4,000 organizations globally – including Ubisoft, ASOS, Xero, Stack Overflow, NASA, and Disney – rely on our Continuous Delivery, GitOps, and release orchestration solutions.
If you join Octopus, you’ll become a part of a high-trust, remote-first, and value-driven culture.
Role
We’re looking for a Lead Product Designer to shape the future of our AI experience for continuous deployments. In this role, you’ll craft intuitive, developer-focused experiences that make complex deployment workflows faster, smarter, and more reliable. We’d love to hear from you if you thrive at the intersection of technical depth and human-centred design.
About the team
We’re launching the AI Foundations team to unlock AI’s potential across Octopus. You’ll architect the tools and technology transforming how Octopus R&D teams deliver our next-generation customer solutions. Your work will directly enable solving problems that were previously impossible.
You’ll do this by solving real customer problems and incrementally designing, building, and shipping intuitive, delightful, trustworthy solutions. Our AI foundations will evolve through this process and mature so that all Octopus R&D teams can access them when solving customer problems.
The AI Foundations team will live within our Foundations Group. The Foundations Group exists to provide the tools and technology that power world-class product experiences.
This is a remote role based in Australia or New Zealand.
What you’ll do
- Design intelligent, scalable user experiences for our product used by engineering teams, focusing on surfacing insights, alerts, and workflows powered by LLMs and automation.
- Translate complex technical concepts (e.g., deployment pipelines, approvals, infrastructure health) into clear, actionable UI that enhances developer efficiency.
- The AI experiences you help surface will guide engineers to confidently interpret and act on AI-generated suggestions, balancing automation with transparency and control.
- Consider end-to-end design across multiple surfaces (dashboards, overlays, CLI-integrated UX, notifications) with a bias toward minimalism, speed, and usability that fosters customer trust.
- Create and evolve UI components and patterns that will be published in our design system.
- Collaborate closely with engineers and product managers to explore how AI can automate decisions, suggest optimisations, and reduce friction in deployment workflows.
- Actively run usability testing, discovery interviews, and internal testing to validate design decisions and surface insights to guide the team’s roadmap.
- Champion a human-centred, developer-first mindset in the development of new AI capabilities.
What you bring
- 7+ years of product design experience, ideally 3+ of those years in developer-facing tools or technical B2B platforms.
- A strong portfolio demonstrating how you’ve translated complex workflows into streamlined, intuitive designs. Favourable if your experience has previously catered to expert users in software engineering or DevOps domains.
- Familiarity with the deployment lifecycle, monitoring, alerting, and environment configuration.
- Fluency in Figma and prototyping tools; comfortable building interactive prototypes and clean UI at speed.
- Deep interest in AI/ML and how LLMs can augment developer tooling, you’re curious about prompt design, semantic search, agent-based automation, or predictive UX.
- Strength in systems thinking and component-based design, ensuring consistency across complex surfaces like logs, dashboards, and workflows.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills. You can present clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders, and know how to handle trade-offs with confidence and a clear rationale.
- Note: if your experience is strongly aligned, but you hesitate due to meeting the years of experience, please consider applying.
Compensation:
Octopus has an internally open and transparent system for compensation. Any Octonaut can view the compensation for any role at any level. This ensures people doing the same work with the same skill get paid the same.
The compensation for this role is:
Level 3 - Senior Product Designer
Maturing: $135k AUD / $145k NZD, Performing: $150k AUD / $160k NZD
Level 4 - Lead Product Designer
Maturing: $170k AUD / $180k NZD, Performing: $180k AUD / $190k NZD
Salaries exclude Super and Kiwi Saver.
Benefits include a 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, and stock options. Learn more.
Below is the interview process you can expect for this role. We know interviewing can seem daunting, but rest assured we designed our interview process to move quickly while still getting you all the information you need.
Interview process (~3 hours total)
Here’s what you can anticipate in the interview process for this position. It’s also your opportunity to gather the details you need to decide if we’re the perfect match for you.
Step 1 [30m] – 👋 Introduction and Recruiter Screen
Step 2 [60m] – ☕️ Interview with a hiring manager and another Octonaut, where we delve further into your experience, and go through a virtual whiteboarding session.
Step 3 [1hr 30m] – 📽️ Portfolio presentation followed by general Q&A where you’ll have the opportunity to ask any of your unanswered questions
Our public employee handbook is the best place to learn more about life at Octopus. It includes our values, how we structure teams, career progression, leave and benefits, and much more.
If you’re enthusiastic about this position, even if you don’t meet all the criteria above, we wholeheartedly encourage you to submit your application. Our talent team is in-house, and we recognise that every individual brings something unique. We take the time to review every application and consider how you might add to the team.
