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Senior Staff Product Designer, Design Lab

Datadog· Design
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New York, NY$204k - $255kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Staff Visual Product Designer to help define and implement a new visual direction for Datadog's product through the Design Lab, partnering with Design Systems, engineering, and product teams to create cohesive, data-dense experiences with strong visual quality.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Qualifications

  • 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.

Skills

Required:Visual designInformation architectureCollaboration with cross-functional teams

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 (Datadog employee resource groups)
  • Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions
  • Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
  • Competitive global benefits
  • Healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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