# Senior Staff Visual Designer, Design Lab
**Company:** [Datadog](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/datadog)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Salary:** $210K-$280K
**Experience:** 12+ years
**Skills:** Design Systems, Visual Design, Product Design, Prototyping, Figma, Brand Design, UI Design, Visual Language, Design Patterns, Craftsmanship
**Posted:** 2026-04-08
> Leads evolution of visual language and design system for complex AI-driven products. Requires 12+ years experience, strong taste, systems thinking, and ability to influence stakeholders through visual storytelling.
## Job Description
## 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.
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