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About the Role

Datadog is seeking a Staff Product Designer for the Modern Compute team, focusing initially on Containers Autoscaling. This role involves defining product direction, leading design from concept to launch, and partnering with product and engineering to create understandable and trustworthy experiences for complex technical systems. The designer will simplify technical concepts, set high standards for interaction and visual design, and mentor other designers.

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end product design for Modern Compute, initially focused on our Autoscaling product.
Help define the product direction for an area that is still evolving, from early framing and exploration through detailed design and delivery.
Design clear, trustworthy experiences for engineers making high-stakes decisions about infrastructure reliability, performance, and cost.
Simplify complex technical concepts without removing the detail and control expert users need.
Work closely with product and engineering leaders to identify the right problems, make decisions clearer, and connect work across multiple teams.
Set a high bar for interaction and visual design, including complex states, data-heavy workflows, and edge cases.
Create reusable patterns that improve consistency across Modern Compute and the broader Datadog product.
Mentor other designers through critique, feedback, and hands-on partnership.
Design and build realistic prototypes in code using coding agents, while applying good judgment about when other tools or levels of fidelity are more appropriate.

Requirements

10+ years of experience designing complex web-based products, including experience operating at a Staff level or in a role with comparable scope.
Exceptional interaction and visual design craft, particularly in dense, technical, or data-heavy experiences.
Experience leading ambiguous product work where the direction was not already defined and your involvement changed the outcome.
Ability to simplify complex systems for expert users without watering down how those systems work.
Comfortable working closely with product managers and engineers throughout the product development process.
Ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and build confidence in a direction across design, product, engineering, and senior leadership.
Ability to think beyond an individual feature and create systems or patterns that work across products and teams.
Ability to balance long-term product direction with hands-on execution and attention to detail.
Actively mentor other designers and help improve the quality of work around you.
Ability to design and build code-based prototypes using AI and coding agents, or demonstrated ability to quickly develop that capability.

Skills

Interaction design
Visual design
Product design
Prototyping in code
AI and coding agents

Location

Hybrid

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Staff level
10+ years of experience

Salary/Compensations

$204,000—$255,000 USD

Benefits

New hire stock equity (RSUs)
Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
Continuous professional development
Product training
Career pathing
Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program
Inclusive company culture
Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
Access to Inclusion Talks
Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
Competitive global benefits
Healthcare
Dental
Parental planning
Mental health benefits
401(k) plan and match
Paid time off
Fitness reimbursements
Discounted employee stock purchase plan

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.
It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers.
Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence.
Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.

Equal Opportunity

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