Staff Product Designer - Metrics

What You’ll Do

• Lead the most ambiguous, 0-to-1 problems in the Metrics space — framing the problem, shipping early bets, and shaping new product surfaces from concept through launch
• Partner with engineering and product on deeply technical subject matter and translate that complexity into simple experiences that hold up across our diverse customers
• Design, prototype, and validate flows that scale across many variations of one user journey, accounting for how customers of vastly different sizes and tech stacks experience the product
• Communicate your design work and support for your design decisions internally to your product teams, leadership, and the broader design organization
• Take a strategic role in shaping the direction of Metrics, advocating for design as a multiplier of engineering velocity and organizational alignment
• Advocate for systems thinking and champion design quality across the organization

Who You Are

• 10+ years of experience in product design
• Portfolio includes a proven track record of leading end-to-end design on ambiguous, technically deep problems, with clear evidence of decisions grounded in user data
• Fluent in the technical subject matter your product depends on — comfortable reasoning about data structures, system architectures, and the tradeoffs that come with scale — and can collaborate as a peer with engineering on those tradeoffs
• Excellent visual and written communicator, able to clearly communicate your design work and the support for your design decisions
• Experience with advanced prototyping tools (e.g. Figma, Cursor, Claude Code, etc)
• Understand systems thinking and how to design flows that scale across many variations and edge cases
• Give and receive feedback well, supporting and improving the work of your colleagues as well as your own

Benefits

• 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
• 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan