Senior Design Manager - Design Systems

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

DRUIDS is the design system behind every Datadog surface, used daily by more than a hundred designers and thousands of engineers across thirty-plus products. You'll lead the team that owns it: designers and design engineers who set the system's direction, hold the quality bar for what ships, and build the tools that make designing in code the default way to work. The team partners closely with product designers, frontend engineers and PMs across the company.

What it asks for · 9

• You have 8+ years in product design, 3+ of them managing.
• You've managed a design system team and grown it.
• You read and write front-end code, and can have conversations about it.
• You design, have opinions and a point of view.
• You are a clear communicator.
• Your feedback improves quality and direction.
• You can build relationships with fellow leaders and influence them
• You've developed reports, and you've handled people who weren't performing.
• You want to work in an engineering-forward company.

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• system14×
• design13×
• product9×
• quality7×
• designers6×
• design system5×
• gets5×
• build4×
• decide4×
• direction4×
• engineers4×
• built3×
• code3×
• components3×
• druids3×
• enough3×

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