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Lead Designer

Datadog
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New York, NY$119k - $159kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Datadog’s brand is entering a new chapter and seeks a Lead Designer to shape and scale the brand across campaigns, events, and digital experiences. The role is hands-on with strong emphasis on design, brand identity, systems thinking, and use of AI-assisted workflows to elevate and scale brand systems.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the evolution of Datadog’s visual identity and establish the quality bar for brand expression across every touchpoint.
  • Build brand systems, templates, asset libraries, and guidelines for rapid high-quality work across teams.
  • Design, build, and steward a scalable, Figma-native brand system—including component libraries, variables, documentation, and governance.
  • Partner with Brand, Creative Operations, Product, Marketing, Sales, and other cross-functional teams to deliver cohesive experiences.
  • Enable designers by creating tools, documentation, and workflows to extend and evolve the brand system.
  • Present design concepts and rationale to stakeholders and influence decisions through visual storytelling and judgment.
  • Define how Datadog’s brand design practice evolves with growth, balancing creativity with scalable systems and operational excellence.
  • Utilize AI-assisted workflows to build scalable brand systems and empower teams to use them effectively.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in graphic design and brand development with a portfolio in visual identity and brand craft.
  • Strong visual design foundation (typography, layout, color, hierarchy).
  • Deep, hands-on Figma expertise: component architecture, style and variable systems, and user-ready documentation.
  • Experience building a large-scale brand system or Figma library from scratch.
  • Experience mentoring or enabling other designers within a system you built.
  • Ability to defend a point of view to stakeholders and translate brand strategy into scalable, well-governed design systems.
  • Comfort with fast-paced environments and ambiguity.
  • Experience using AI tools daily for research, ideation, prototyping, scaling design processes, production, and output.

Skills

Required:Graphic design and brand developmentFigmaBrand system creationAI-assisted design workflows
Nice to have:Mentoring designers

Benefits

  • Generous and competitive benefits package
  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
  • Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
  • Employee-focused onboarding
  • Internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program
  • Friendly and inclusive workplace culture
  • Benefits may vary based on country and employment type
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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