Staff Visual Designer, Design Lab

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

Our design system powers everything we ship. Now we’re ready to evolve it. As Datadog expands into AI-driven experiences and more complex product surfaces, the visual language needs to grow with it. We’re looking for someone who can help define that next phase, someone with taste, judgment, and the confidence to shape how the product feels at scale.

What it asks for · 8

• You have 10+ 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.

What the job covers

• 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.

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• visual19×
• product17×
• design15×
• systems13×
• craft5×
• define5×
• brand4×
• comfortable4×
• executive4×
• experience4×
• influence4×
• partner4×
• patterns4×
• product design4×
• scalable4×
• shape4×

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