Senior Staff Product Designer, Design Lab

What You'll Do

• 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.

Additional information

You will 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.

Who You Are

• You have 12+ years of experience in product and/or visual design.
• Your craft is elevated, and you can execute it yourself at a high bar.
• You're product-native. You understand how visual design and product design act on each other in practice.
• You use visual language to clarify an experience, and you can say why a decision improves it.
• You think in information architecture, hierarchy, and holistic system work.
• You've taken a concept and turned it into patterns that scaled across a real product.
• You're comfortable operating in ambiguity and in large, complex organizations.
• Your portfolio demonstrates shipped product surfaces with exceptional visual quality.
• You are a persuasive collaborator who can make recommendations and align designers, engineers, product partners, and executives.

Why This Role Matters

• DRUIDS powers every Datadog experience.
• The decisions made in this role will shape how millions of interactions feel across web, mobile, and emerging AI-driven surfaces.
• This is an opportunity to bring a new visual direction into a complex, engineering-forward platform and raise the craft bar across the organization.

Benefits and Growth

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Competitive global benefits

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is

$204,000—$255,000 USD