Senior Staff Product Designer, Design Lab
Core
Define a new visual direction for Datadog's platform, translating visual principles into concrete decisions on hierarchy, layout, navigation, and interaction to clarify complex, data-dense experiences.
Role type
Senior Staff Visual Product Designer (Design Lab)
Builds
A coherent product experience and visual system for Datadog's observability platform across web, mobile, and AI-driven surfaces.
Domain
SaaS / Observability / Data Visualization
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Visual judgment, product and systems thinking, information architecture, interaction design, prototyping, stakeholder influence, ambiguity navigation, cross-functional collaboration
Preferred skills
Experience scaling concepts into patterns, operating in large complex organizations, persuasive collaboration
Technologies
Design tools (implied), prototyping tools
Responsibilities
Co-develop visual direction by stress-testing it across product journeys; Translate visual principles into decisions on hierarchy, layout, and behavior; Use visual language to clarify data-dense experiences; Hold visual quality bar across work not owned; Prototype and refine new patterns; Partner with Product Design, Design Systems, and engineering to implement guidance; Create artifacts and narratives to drive adoption; Influence stakeholders across design, engineering, product, and executive partners
Seniority
Senior Staff, hands-on IC with strategic impact