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Staff Product Designer, APM

Datadog New York, NY

New York, NY

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$204k - $255k/yr Full time Ai Design Tools Apm Design Lead

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Job Description

Staff Product Designer for Datadog's APM team in New York, NY (hybrid), owning end-to-end design across instrumentation, troubleshooting, and observability workflows in complex distributed systems.

Responsibilities

Establish yourself as a design leader within APM by proactively identifying opportunities and guiding design strategy across multiple product areas and workflows.
Collaborate closely with product managers and engineers to craft intuitive experiences for highly technical systems, balancing user needs with platform scalability and engineering constraints.
Champion end-to-end product thinking across onboarding, instrumentation, troubleshooting, debugging, runtime analysis, and performance investigation workflows.
Navigate ambiguity and shape product direction through research, systems thinking, prototyping, and iterative execution.
Leverage AI-assisted workflows and prototyping tools to rapidly explore concepts, validate ideas, and accelerate iteration throughout the design process.
Partner with engineering through implementation, prototype interactions in code when appropriate, and refine product quality in production-like environments.
Bridge the gap between technical requirements and user needs, advocating for customers while influencing strategic product decisions.
Plan and synthesize qualitative and quantitative research to identify pain points, validate solutions, and guide roadmap decisions.
Communicate design rationale clearly and persuasively across design, engineering, product, and executive stakeholders.
Mentor and support other designers by sharing feedback, frameworks, and workflows to raise overall quality across the organization.
Contribute to the evolution of AI-enabled design workflows, helping teams rethink how products are explored, prototyped, and shipped.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in digital product design.
A portfolio that demonstrates a track record of designing and shipping complex technical products and system-oriented workflows.
Experience designing for developer platforms, observability tools, infrastructure products, or other highly technical domains.
Comfort operating in ambiguous environments and influencing product direction through systems thinking and product judgment.
Proven ability to conduct research, synthesize insights, and influence product strategy across cross-functional teams.
History of telling compelling stories that build alignment, influence stakeholders, and articulate a clear product and design vision.
Thoughtful about edge cases, scalability, information architecture, and designing for technical depth without sacrificing usability.
Proactive in leading initiatives from concept to execution, balancing priorities and navigating complex stakeholder environments.
Thrives in cross-functional collaboration and is comfortable working closely with engineers throughout implementation.
Fluent in modern design and prototyping tools, actively exploring AI-assisted workflows to improve iteration speed, prototyping, implementation collaboration, and product quality.
Interested in evolving how design teams work through code-aware tooling, AI-assisted prototyping, and emerging design-engineering workflows.
Gives and receives feedback well, proactively mentoring other designers to elevate the broader team's quality.

Benefits

New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).
Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing.
Interdepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking.
Inclusive culture with the option to join Datadog Community Guilds (employee resource groups).
Access to Inclusion Talks and internal panel discussions.
Free global mental health benefits for employees and dependents aged 6 and up.
Competitive global benefits.

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