Lead Designer

Responsibilities

• Lead the evolution of Datadog’s visual identity and establish the quality bar for brand expression across every touchpoint.
• Build brand systems, templates, asset libraries, and guidelines that help teams create high-quality work quickly.
• Design, build, and steward a scalable, Figma-native brand system, including component libraries, variables, documentation, and governance.
• Partner with Brand, Creative Operations, Product, Marketing, Sales, and other cross-functional teams to deliver cohesive creative experiences.
• Enable and influence designers through tools, documentation, and workflows that help teams extend and evolve the brand system.
• Present design concepts and rationale to stakeholders, influencing decisions through visual storytelling and creative judgment.
• Help evolve Datadog’s brand design practice while balancing creative exploration, scalable systems, and operational excellence.
• Use AI-assisted workflows to build scalable brand systems and enable teams to use them effectively.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in graphic design and brand development, with a portfolio rooted in visual identity and brand craft.
• Strong visual design foundation, including typography, layout, color, and hierarchy.
• Deep hands-on Figma expertise, including component architecture, style and variable systems, and documentation.
• Experience building a large-scale brand system or Figma library from scratch.
• Experience mentoring or enabling designers to work confidently within a design system.
• Strong visual judgment and ability to defend a point of view to stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to translate brand strategy into scalable, well-governed design systems.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced environments with evolving priorities and ambiguity.
• Daily experience using AI tools for research, ideation, prototyping, design-process scaling, production, and precision output.

Compensation & Benefits

• Estimated yearly salary: $119,000–$159,000 USD.
• Competitive benefits package.
• New-hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan.
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities.
• Employee-focused onboarding.
• Internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program.
• Healthcare, dental, parental planning, mental health benefits, 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and discounted employee stock purchase plan.
• Hybrid workplace.