# Senior Staff Product Designer, Design Lab

**Company:** [Datadog](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/datadog)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Product Design
**Salary:** $204k – $255k/yr
**Experience:** 12+ years
**Skills:** Product Design, Visual Design, Information Architecture, ui/ux, Prototyping, Design Systems, stakeholder alignment
**Posted:** 2026-07-31

> Senior Staff Visual Product Designer in Datadog's Design Lab, co-developing and stress-testing a new visual direction for the dense, technical observability platform. Translate principles into hierarchy, layout, navigation, and interaction patterns; partner with design, systems, and engineering teams to scale high-quality experiences across web, mobile, and AI surfaces. Requires 12+ years experience, exceptional visual craft, systems thinking, and portfolio of shipped complex products.

## Job Description

## 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)

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