Staff Product Designer, Visual Systems

What You’ll Do:

• Lead exploratory and concept work that informs the next generation of DRUIDS.
• Set and evolve Datadog’s visual design direction at the system level — defining new patterns, visual language, and interaction models.
• Drive cross-functional initiatives that modernize the design system’s tooling, infrastructure, and AI-assisted workflows.
• Work closely with the Design Systems engineering team to ensure high-quality implementation and code quality.
• Partner with Brand and Product Design to align product visuals with Datadog’s broader design language.
• Translate exploratory visual work into scalable system patterns, collaborating closely with design systems engineering.
• Influence and align stakeholders across design, product, and engineering through strong storytelling and visual rationale.
• Prototype, test, and iterate on new visual ideas before they become systemized.
• Help define the quality bar for visual design across the platform.
• Advocate for design excellence and systems thinking across the organization.

Who You Are:

• Experience driving a major re-brand or visual re-fresh of a product with a mature design system.
• Experience driving stakeholder alignment and shaping design vision across multiple product teams.
• 10+ years of experience in product design with at least 3+ years focused on design systems or design infrastructure.
• Portfolio includes a proven track record of excellent design craft (product and platform) as well as design system contribution or shipping system-level work (components, libraries, or scalable UX patterns).
• Fluent in Figma component architecture, design tokens, and how design intersects with front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, React, AI-first tooling).
• 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).
• Give and receive feedback well, supporting and improving the work of your colleagues as well as your own.

Benefits and Growth:

• 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.