Senior Staff Product Designer

Position:
Senior Staff Product Designer, Design Lab

Company:
Datadog

Compensation:
$204,000—$255,000 USD

Location:
USA, New York, New York

Employment type:
Not specified

Work Arrangement:
In-office 3 days a week

Short Summary:
Datadog is seeking a Senior Staff Visual Product Designer to lead the new visual direction for their platform, focusing on enhancing user experience through design.

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.
- 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 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.

Requirement:
- 12+ years of experience in product and/or visual design.
- Strong visual judgment and deep product and systems thinking.
- Ability to clarify experiences using visual language.
- Experience in information architecture, hierarchy, and holistic system work.
- Proven track record of turning concepts into scalable patterns.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and large organizations.
- Portfolio demonstrating shipped product surfaces with exceptional visual quality.
- Strong collaboration skills to align various stakeholders.

Benefits:
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).
- Continuous professional development and product training.
- Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program.
- Inclusive company culture with Community Guilds.
- Access to Inclusion Talks and global mental health benefits.
- Comprehensive employee benefits including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and more.