Director, Product Design

The role

You will lead the design direction for a suite of products and build a global design team. You will define product vision, roadmaps, and metrics while evolving how the team designs and builds with AI.

What you will do

• Define a cohesive product vision and establish roadmaps, metrics, and goals with cross-functional peers
• Champion product excellence and empower your team to deliver it
• Build, develop, and lead a talented, diverse, global design team
• Evolve how the team designs and builds with AI
• Partner with Design peers to strengthen the design organization’s processes, tools, and capabilities

Required qualifications

• 12+ years in product design
• 5+ years managing managers
• A portfolio demonstrating design leadership, craft, end-to-end ownership, and product excellence
• Strong customer advocacy, with design decisions grounded in data and business context
• Experience building complex products
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle
• Enthusiasm for guiding teams to prototype in code and ship with AI

Nice to have

• Experience building complex products, ideally B2B SaaS

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+
• Competitive global benefits
• Healthcare
• Dental
• Parental planning
• 401(k) plan and match

About the company

Datadog is an observability and security platform that provides unified visibility across the technology stack. It uses AI to help businesses manage complexity at scale.