Senior Staff Product Designer, Design Lab
About The Position
Datadog is entering a new chapter in how its product looks, feels, and operates. The Design Lab is defining a new visual direction for the platform, and this role will help turn that direction into a coherent product experience. Datadog is dense, technical, and used by people working through complex problems—often under real pressure. The challenge is not simply applying a new aesthetic, but rethinking hierarchy, layout, navigation, interaction, and product patterns so the experience becomes clearer, more cohesive, and more expressive without losing the power users rely on. This is a hands-on product design leadership role for someone who combines strong visual judgment with deep product and systems thinking. The role involves working alongside visual designers, motion designers, product designers, Design Systems, and Engineering to ensure the new direction changes how Datadog works—not just how it looks. The decisions made in this role will shape how millions of interactions feel across web, mobile, and emerging AI-driven surfaces. This is an opportunity to bring a new visual direction into a complex, engineering-forward platform and raise the craft bar across the organization.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in product and/or visual design.
- Elevated craft that can be executed at a high bar.
- Product-native understanding of how visual design and product design act on each other in practice.
- Ability to use visual language to clarify an experience and articulate why a decision improves it.
- Thinking in information architecture, hierarchy, and holistic system work.
- Experience taking a concept and turning it into patterns that scaled across a real product.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and in large, complex organizations.
- Portfolio demonstrating shipped product surfaces with exceptional visual quality.
- Persuasive collaborator who can make recommendations and align designers, engineers, product partners, and executives.
Responsibilities
- Co-develop Datadog’s next visual direction by applying and stress-testing it across representative product journeys.
- Translate visual principles into concrete decisions about hierarchy, layout, navigation, information architecture, interaction, and behavior.
- Use visual language to clarify complex, data-dense experiences — hierarchy, density, and attention.
- Hold the visual quality bar across work you don't own, and align teams around it.
- Prototype, test, and refine new patterns before they become systemized.
- Partner deeply with Product Design, Design Systems, and engineering to turn successful concepts into durable system guidance and implementation.
- Create clear artifacts, pilots, and narratives that help teams adopt the direction and raise the product quality bar.
- Influence stakeholders across design, engineering, product, and executive partners.
Benefits
- New hire stock equity (RSUs)
- Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development
- Product training
- Career pathing
- Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- Inclusive company culture
- Ability to join Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
- Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions
- Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
- Competitive global benefits
- Healthcare
- Dental
- Parental planning
- Mental health benefits
- 401(k) plan and match
- Paid time off
- Fitness reimbursements
- Discounted employee stock purchase plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
