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Staff Product Designer, APM

Datadog· Engineering
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New York$204k - $255kfull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Staff Product Designer to join the APM (Application Performance Monitoring) team focused on helping engineers troubleshoot and optimize their applications. Own design work end-to-end, shape broader product direction, mentor others, and contribute to production code with AI-assisted workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Become a design leader within APM by proactively identifying opportunities and shaping the design strategy across multiple product areas and workflows.
  • Partner closely with PMs and Engineers to ship intuitive experiences, balancing user needs with platform scalability and engineering constraints.
  • Conduct and synthesize qualitative and quantitative research to identify pain points, validate solutions, and guide roadmap decisions.
  • Communicate design rationale clearly and persuasively across design, engineering, product, and executive stakeholders.
  • Mentor and support other designers by providing feedback, sharing frameworks and workflows, and helping raise the overall design quality bar across the organization.
  • Prototype in code to rapidly explore ideas and validate concepts.
  • Contribute to production code using AI-assisted workflows to ensure execution matches design intent.
  • Help the team adopt AI-enabled design workflows.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in digital product design.
  • Portfolio demonstrates a strong track record of designing and shipping complex technical products.
  • Experience using AI-assisted workflows to prototype and rapidly iterate.
  • Track record of connecting design decisions to measurable business outcomes.
  • Shipped code and interest in evolving how design teams incorporate AI tools into their workflows.
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments and influencing product direction through systems thinking and product judgment.
  • Track record of telling compelling stories that build alignment and articulate a clear product and design vision.
  • Thoughtful about edge cases, scalability, information architecture, and designing for technical depth without sacrificing usability.
  • Proactively lead initiatives from concept to execution, balancing priorities and navigating complex stakeholder environments.
  • Experience designing for developer platforms, observability tools, infrastructure products, or other highly technical domains.
  • Ability to give and receive feedback well and mentor other designers.

Skills

Required:Design leadershipUser researchPrototyping with AI-assisted workflows

Benefits

  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
  • Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
  • Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
  • An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (employee resource groups)
  • Access to Inclusion Talks, internal panel discussions
  • Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
  • Competitive global benefits
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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