Senior Staff Product Designer, Design Lab

The role

You will co-develop Datadog's next visual direction and translate visual principles into product decisions. You will work with visual designers, motion designers, product designers, Design Systems, and Engineering to implement new patterns and guidance.

What you will do

• 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.
• 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 with Product Design, Design Systems, and engineering to turn concepts into system guidance and implementation.
• Create clear artifacts, pilots, and narratives to help teams adopt the direction.
• Influence stakeholders across design, engineering, product, and executive partners.

Required qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in product and/or visual design.
• Ability to execute craft at a high bar.
• Understanding of how visual design and product design act on each other in practice.
• Ability to use visual language to clarify an experience.
• Ability to think in information architecture, hierarchy, and holistic system work.
• Experience turning a concept into patterns that scaled across a real product.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and in large, complex organizations.
• Portfolio demonstrates shipped product surfaces with exceptional visual quality.
• Ability to make recommendations and align designers, engineers, product partners, and executives.

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.