Staff Product Designer, APM

The role

You will join the APM team to help engineers troubleshoot and optimize applications. You will own design work end-to-end, shape product direction, and mentor other designers.

What you will do

• Identify opportunities and shape design strategy across product areas and workflows.
• Partner with PMs and Engineers to ship intuitive experiences.
• Conduct and synthesize qualitative and quantitative research.
• Communicate design rationale to stakeholders.
• Mentor and support other designers.
• Prototype in code to explore ideas and validate concepts.
• Contribute to production code using AI-assisted workflows.
• Help the team adopt AI-enabled design workflows.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in digital product design.
• Portfolio demonstrating a track record of designing and shipping complex technical products.
• Use of AI-assisted workflows to prototype and rapidly iterate.
• Track record of connecting design decisions to measurable business outcomes.
• Experience shipping code.
• Interest in evolving how design teams incorporate AI tools into workflows.
• Comfort operating in ambiguous environments.
• Ability to influence product direction through systems thinking and product judgment.
• Track record of telling compelling stories to build alignment and influence stakeholders.
• Thoughtfulness regarding edge cases, scalability, information architecture, and technical depth.
• Ability to lead initiatives from concept to execution.
• Ability to give and receive feedback and mentor other designers.

Nice to have

• Experience designing for developer platforms, observability tools, infrastructure products, or other highly technical domains.

Benefits

• New hire stock equity (RSUs)
• Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program
• Inclusive company culture and Community Guilds
• Access to Inclusion Talks
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits
• 401(k) plan and match
• Paid time off
• Fitness reimbursements

About the company

Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place.