Senior Product Designer

Datadog seeks a Senior Product Designer to drive platform design that scales the user experience across governance, access, teams, identity, and multi-org contexts. This role will shape the roadmap and collaborate closely with product managers and engineers to deliver impactful UI at scale.

Location

New York, NY (hybrid)

Compensation

USD 162,000 - 202,000 per year

Responsibilities

• Develop subject matter expertise and influence the roadmap and product vision as a senior designer.
• Collaborate daily with product managers and engineering partners to uncover customer pain points, explore solutions, and ship UI.
• Prototype in code to share high fidelity ideas early, even when design fidelity is low.
• Maintain tight feedback loops to iterate quickly while shipping incremental steps toward an ideal experience.
• Present work to stakeholders at varying levels of seniority, up to executive leadership.
• Set clear context and describe your solutions to help others understand and buy into your proposals.
• Raise the quality bar for admin experience design.
• Work within a Platform team to coordinate with overlapping product teams, ensuring a coherent experience across contexts.
• Stress-test designs against edge cases to ensure robustness across all expected contexts.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in digital product design
• Experience designing data rich interfaces
• Passion for translating complex technical topics into clear UX
• Ability to develop fluency in technical subject matter and collaborate as a peer with engineering to weigh solutions and tradeoffs
• Exceptional craft and drive to elevate the look and feel of functional UI
• Experience creating component-based design patterns and working with established design systems, with interest in exploring new approaches
• Deep understanding of user archetypes and business needs
• Data driven decision making combined with the ability to make judgment calls based on expertise
• Strong written and verbal communication across Slack, meetings, docs, presentations, and video walkthroughs
• Fluent in AI assisted workflows using tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Figma Make; daily use for research, analysis, content generation, and rapid prototyping; eagerness to adopt these approaches
• Energized by managing multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to give and receive feedback to improve team outcomes

Technologies

• Claude Code
• Cursor
• Figma Make

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 access to Community Guilds for Datadog employees
• Inclusion Talks and internal panel discussions
• Free global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Competitive global benefits

About Datadog

Datadog is a leading observability and security platform built for the AI era. It provides unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale, integrating applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security in one place. Using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers, Datadog is trusted by Fortune 500 companies and high growth AI leaders, enabling faster decision making with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife.

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