# Staff Product Designer - Metrics

**Company:** [Datadog](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/datadog)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Product Design
**Salary:** $204k – $255k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Figma, Prototyping, Systems Thinking, User Research, Data Visualization, Technical Collaboration, Product Design, Design Systems, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Visual Communication
**Posted:** 2026-05-22

> Lead design for Datadog Metrics, shaping observability workflows for telemetry investigation, cost governance, and data cardinality at scale. Requires 10+ years of experience in product design with deep technical fluency.

## Job Description

## 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

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