Senior Staff Product Designer, Design Lab

2 hours, 56 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Design and User Experience
Datadog

Datadog

Datadog is the go-to monitoring platform for cloud applications, providing a complete suite of services to ensure optimal performance and user satisfaction.

IT Services
5K-10K
Founded 2010

Description

  • Co-develop Datadog’s next visual direction across representative product journeys.
  • Translate visual principles into decisions about hierarchy, layout, navigation, information architecture, interaction, and behavior.
  • Use visual language to clarify complex, data-dense experiences.
  • Maintain the visual quality bar across work beyond your direct ownership and align teams around it.
  • Prototype, test, and refine new patterns before they are systemized.
  • Partner with Product Design, Design Systems, and Engineering to turn concepts into durable system guidance and implementation.
  • Create artifacts, pilots, and narratives that help teams adopt the direction and raise product quality.
  • Influence stakeholders across design, engineering, product, and executive teams.
  • Report directly to the Design Director as part of a small team shaping the future state before broader rollout.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience in product and/or visual design.
  • Strong hands-on craft and the ability to execute at a high bar.
  • Product-native perspective with understanding of how visual design and product design interact.
  • Ability to use visual language to clarify an experience and explain why a decision improves it.
  • Experience thinking in information architecture, hierarchy, and holistic system work.
  • Experience turning concepts into patterns that scale across a real product.
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity and within large, complex organizations.
  • Portfolio demonstrating shipped product surfaces with exceptional visual quality.
  • Ability to persuade and align designers, engineers, product partners, and executives.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience preferred.

Benefits

  • $204,000–$255,000 USD estimated yearly salary.
  • Competitive salary with equity package and possible variable compensation.
  • New hire RSUs and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).
  • Healthcare, dental, and parental planning benefits.
  • Free global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+.
  • 401(k) plan with match.
  • Paid time off.
  • Fitness reimbursements.
  • Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing.
  • Mentor and buddy program, inclusive company culture, and access to Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks.

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