Senior Staff Product Designer, Design Lab

What You'll Do

• Co-develop Datadog’s next visual direction by applying and stress-testing it across representative product journeys.
• Translate visual principles into concrete decisions about hierarchy, layout, navigation, information architecture, interaction, and behavior.
• Use visual language to clarify complex, data-dense experiences — hierarchy, density, and attention.
• Hold the visual quality bar across work you don't own, and align teams around it.
• Prototype, test, and refine new patterns before they become systemized.
• Partner deeply with Product Design, Design Systems, and engineering to turn successful concepts into durable system guidance and implementation.
• Create clear artifacts, pilots, and narratives that help teams adopt the direction and raise the product quality bar.
• Influence stakeholders across design, engineering, product, and executive partners.

Who You Are

• 12+ years of experience in product and/or visual design.
• Elevated craft that you can execute yourself at a high bar.
• Product-native understanding of how visual design and product design interact.
• Use visual language to clarify experiences and explain why decisions improve them.
• Think in information architecture, hierarchy, and holistic system work.
• Experience turning concepts into patterns that scaled across a real product.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and in large, complex organizations.
• Portfolio demonstrates shipped product surfaces with exceptional visual quality.
• Persuasive collaborator who can align designers, engineers, product partners, and executives.

Why This Role Matters

DRUIDS powers every Datadog experience. The decisions made in this role will shape how millions of interactions feel across web, mobile, and emerging AI-driven surfaces. This is an opportunity to bring a new visual direction into a complex, engineering-forward platform and raise the craft bar across the organization.

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
• Inclusive company culture and Community Guilds (employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks
• Free global mental health benefits for employees and dependents
• Competitive global benefits (healthcare, dental, parental planning, 401(k) match, PTO, fitness reimbursements, discounted ESPP)
• Competitive salary and equity package (may include variable compensation)