About the company
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers.
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.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in product and/or visual design.
- Elevated craft and ability to execute at a high bar.
- Product-native understanding of how visual design and product design interact.
- Strong skills in information architecture, hierarchy, and holistic system work.
- Proven ability to turn concepts into scalable patterns across a real product.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and large, complex organizations.
- Portfolio demonstrating shipped product surfaces with exceptional visual quality.
- Persuasive collaboration skills to align designers, engineers, product partners, and executives.
Conditions
- 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.
- Inclusive company culture and Community Guilds.
- Access to Inclusion Talks and free global mental health benefits.
- Competitive global benefits.