Datadog
Senior Design Manager - AI Monitoring & Management
New York, New York, USA. Posted a month ago
The role
You will lead a team of four designers across Agent Observability, GPU Monitoring, and Agent Console. You will drive end-to-end product experiences and prototype directly in code to shape strategy and raise design quality.
What you will do
- Go deep on the domain including AI training/development workflows, evals, GPU infrastructure, and agent debugging
- Drive end-to-end product experiences across Agent Observability, GPU Monitoring, and Agent Console
- Prototype and ship directly in code to demonstrate direction and quality
- Lead and coach a team of four designers
- Conduct regular 1:1s and career conversations
- Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to shape strategy, prioritization, and roadmap direction
- Set and maintain a high bar for design quality
- Lead design critiques within the domain
Required qualifications
- 10+ years in product design roles
- 3+ years in a design management or leadership position
- Portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product design ownership and deep domain expertise in at least one complex area
- Demonstrated ability to take an existing product area and visibly uplevel its craft and product ownership
- Strong communication and influence skills
- Experience designing complex, data-heavy products
- Capability to prototype and ship directly in code (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar)
- Demonstrated ability to mentor designers and raise their craft through coaching and example
Nice to have
- experience designing developer tools
- AI/ML products
- observability platforms
- comfort with ambiguity in a rapidly evolving space
Benefits
- New hire stock equity (RSUs)
- employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and design education
- Intradepartmental mentor and peer coaching program
- Inclusive company culture
- access to Datadog Community Guilds (employee resource groups)
- Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
- Competitive global benefits
- healthcare
- dental
- parental planning
- 401(k) plan and match
About the company
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale.