Staff Product Designer, Modern Compute

What you’ll do

• Lead end-to-end product design for Modern Compute, initially focused on our Autoscaling product.
• Help define the product direction for an area that is still evolving, from early framing and exploration through detailed design and delivery.
• Design clear, trustworthy experiences for engineers making high-stakes decisions about infrastructure reliability, performance, and cost.
• Simplify complex technical concepts without removing the detail and control expert users need.
• Work closely with product and engineering leaders to identify the right problems, make decisions clearer, and connect work across multiple teams.
• Set a high bar for interaction and visual design, including complex states, data-heavy workflows, and edge cases.
• Create reusable patterns that improve consistency across Modern Compute and the broader Datadog product.
• Mentor other designers through critique, feedback, and hands-on partnership.
• Design and build realistic prototypes in code using coding agents, while applying good judgment about when other tools or levels of fidelity are more appropriate.

Who you are

• 10+ years of experience designing complex web-based products, including experience operating at a Staff level or in a role with comparable scope.
• Exceptional interaction and visual design craft, particularly in dense, technical, or data-heavy experiences.
• Led ambiguous product work where the direction was not already defined and your involvement changed the outcome.
• Can simplify complex systems for expert users without watering down how those systems work.
• Comfortable working closely with product managers and engineers throughout the product development process.
• Communicate complex ideas clearly and can build confidence in a direction across design, product, engineering, and senior leadership.
• Think beyond an individual feature and can create systems or patterns that work across products and teams.
• Balance long-term product direction with hands-on execution and attention to detail.
• Actively mentor other designers and help improve the quality of work around you.
• Can design and build code-based prototypes using AI and coding agents, or have demonstrated the ability to quickly develop that capability.

Bonus points

• Experience designing infrastructure, observability, cloud, or developer tools.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, containers, autoscaling, GitOps, YAML, or related infrastructure workflows.
• Experience designing products for SREs, platform engineers, or application developers.
• Experience working across a multi-product SaaS platform.
• Experience creating design patterns that were adopted by multiple teams.