About the position
We're looking for a Senior Product Designer to lead the design of internal tools and developer experiences that power how Datadog engineers build, test, and ship software. You'll work across complex workflows—like release orchestration, configuration management, and deployment tooling—helping shape the Software Delivery Lifecycle (SDLC) for hundreds of engineers at Datadog. This role sits at the intersection of platform design, developer experience, and internal systems. You'll partner with product managers, engineers, and fellow designers to uncover pain points, align stakeholders, and scale design practices to teams traditionally underserved by UX. Your work will directly improve engineering velocity, safety, and operational excellence across the company. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
Responsibilities
- Act as an end-to-end product designer who can turn insights from domain analysis and user feedback into tangible solutions.
- Collaborate with product managers and engineers throughout the design process as the owner of your product's user experience.
- Bring user-centered design practices to traditionally 'design-light' teams, teaching and embedding customer research and discovery methods into development cycles.
- Communicate your design work and the support for your design decisions internally to your product team and the whole company.
- Take a strategic role in shaping product direction, advocating for design as a multiplier of engineering velocity and organizational alignment.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in digital product design.
- Proven track record of shipping end-to-end design work in SaaS applications.
- Excellent visual and written communicator, able to clearly communicate design work and the support for design decisions.
- Experience with advanced prototyping tools (e.g. Principle, Framer, Sketch, Figma, InVision).
- Understanding of systems thinking and component-based design patterns.
- Ability to give and receive feedback well, supporting and improving the work of colleagues.
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.
