Senior Staff Visual Designer, Design Lab

What You’ll Do

• Define and evolve Datadog’s visual language across product surfaces.
• Establish the visual quality bar for the platform.
• Lead exploratory and concept work that pushes our system forward.
• Translate bold visual ideas into scalable patterns that can live inside a design system.
• Partner deeply with Brand, Product Design, and Design Systems to unify expression across product and marketing.
• Influence executive stakeholders through clear, compelling visual storytelling.
• Prototype, test, and refine new patterns before they become systemized.
• Help shape how visual direction is integrated into our design process.

Who You Are

• You have 12+ years of experience in visual and/or product design
• You have led a meaningful visual evolution or rebrand within a mature product ecosystem.
• You have strong taste and are comfortable defending a point of view.
• You know how to translate brand into scalable product systems.
• You think in systems, but you’re motivated by craft.
• You’re comfortable operating in ambiguity and defining direction where none exists.
• You can influence across design, engineering, and executive partners.
• Your portfolio demonstrates exceptional visual craft and product thinking — not just applied systems work.