Senior Staff Product Designer, Design Lab

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

This is a hands-on product design leadership role for someone who combines strong visual judgment with deep product and systems thinking. You’ll work alongside visual designers, motion designers, product designers, Design Systems, and Engineering to ensure the new direction changes how Datadog works—not just how it looks.

What it asks for · 9

• You have 12+ years of experience in product and/or visual design.
• Your craft is elevated, and you can execute it yourself at a high bar.
• You're product-native. You understand how visual design and product design act on each other in practice.
• You use visual language to clarify an experience, and you can say why a decision improves it.
• You think in information architecture, hierarchy, and holistic system work.
• You've taken a concept and turned it into patterns that scaled across a real product.
• You're comfortable operating in ambiguity and in large, complex organizations.
• Your portfolio demonstrates shipped product surfaces with exceptional visual quality.
• You are a persuasive collaborator who can make recommendations and align designers, engineers, product partners, and executives.

What the job covers

• 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.

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• product16×
• visual13×
• design10×
• designers6×
• direction6×
• experience6×
• systems5×
• bar4×
• complex4×
• hierarchy4×
• decisions3×
• engineering3×
• interaction3×
• partners3×
• patterns3×
• product design3×

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