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About the Role
Datadog is seeking a Senior Staff Visual Product Designer to help define and implement a new visual direction for the platform. This role involves rethinking hierarchy, layout, navigation, interaction, and product patterns to create a clearer, more cohesive, and expressive user experience for complex, data-dense applications. You will work closely with design and engineering teams to ensure the new direction enhances the product's functionality and aesthetic.
Responsibilities
- 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 — hierarchy, density, and attention.
- 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 deeply with Product Design, Design Systems, and engineering to turn successful concepts into durable system guidance and implementation.
- Create clear artifacts, pilots, and narratives that help teams adopt the direction and raise the product quality bar.
- Influence stakeholders across design, engineering, product, and executive partners.
- Report directly to the Design Director and work as part of a small, focused team defining the future state before it scales across hundreds of designers and engineers.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in product and/or visual design.
- Elevated craft that can be executed at a high bar.
- Product-native understanding of how visual design and product design interact in practice.
- Ability to use visual language to clarify an experience and articulate the reasoning behind decisions.
- Proficiency in thinking in terms of information architecture, hierarchy, and holistic system work.
- Experience taking a concept and turning it into scalable patterns for a real product.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and large, complex organizations.
- Portfolio demonstrating shipped product surfaces with exceptional visual quality.
- Persuasive collaborator capable of making recommendations and aligning designers, engineers, product partners, and executives.
Skills
- Visual judgment
- Product thinking
- Systems thinking
- Information architecture
- Hierarchy
- Layout
- Navigation
- Interaction design
- Product patterns
- Visual language
- Prototyping
- Testing
- Collaboration
- Communication
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior Staff
- 12+ years
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.
- Datadog values people from all walks of life and encourages those passionate about technology and growth to apply.
- Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Equal Opportunity
- Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law.
- Datadog considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
- Datadog endeavors to make our Careers Page accessible to all users and provides a form for accommodation requests.