Director, Product Design

Datadog · New York, New York, USA · Product Design · listed October 30, 2026

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The shape of it

Seniority
Director
Where
Hybrid
Stated pay
$232,000 – $290,000 USD
Requirements listed
0
Length
707 words

In the posting’s own words

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. This role is based in New York.

What the job covers

  • Define a cohesive product vision and establish roadmaps, metrics, and goals with cross-functional peers.
  • Champion product excellence and empower your team to deliver it.
  • Build, develop, and lead a talented, diverse, global design team.
  • Evolve how the team designs and builds with AI.
  • Partner with Design peers to strengthen the design organization’s processes, tools, and capabilities.
  • 12+ years in product design, including 5+ years managing managers.
  • A portfolio demonstrating design leadership, craft, end-to-end ownership, and product excellence.
  • Strong customer advocacy, with design decisions grounded in data and business context.
  • Experience building complex products, ideally B2B SaaS
  • Understanding of the software development lifecycle and enthusiasm for guiding teams to prototype in code and ship with AI.
  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
  • Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing

Tools and skills named

Cloud & infra
  • Datadog7×
  • Observability
Security & compliance
  • Security2×
Go to market
  • SaaS
Ways of working
  • Cross-functional

Words the posting leans on

  • design10×
  • product9×
  • benefits6×
  • builds3×
  • culture3×
  • define3×
  • global3×
  • ship3×
  • building2×
  • code2×
  • compensation2×
  • competitive2×
  • complex2×
  • customer2×
  • development2×
  • direction2×

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