Senior Product Designer - AAA

Role Overview We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer with a passion for building platform features that impact UX at a massive scale. As a member of AAA, you’ll work across a breadth of problem spaces on deeply technical topics, such as governance, access, teams, identity, and multi-org UX. You’ll lead design for features that mediate how Datadog’s biggest customers use the platform and manage what their employees can see and do. 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. What You'll Do AAA is a highly technical product environment, where designers strive to understand the technical workflows, constraints and opportunities within this domain. As you develop subject matter expertise, you’ll use your influence as a Senior designer to drive the roadmap and vision. Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with your PM and engineering partners to understand customers’ pain points, explore solutions, and build UI that ships. Prototyping in code creates the opportunity to share high-fidelity ideas at early stages, even if the design itself is low-fidelity. Tight feedback loops let your team iterate quickly, building towards an ideal vision for the best possible experience while you ship incremental steps towards that goal. In addition to making the work, you will also share your work with stakeholders at varying levels of seniority, all the way up to executive leadership level. Your crisp context setting and clear description of your solution will help people understand your choices and sell them on your proposal. Your work will up-level the quality bar for what an admin experience can look like. While you’ll leverage Datadog’s design system where it makes sense, you won’t let it prevent broad exploration of different design patterns in the service of finding the optimal solution. As part of a Platform team, you’ll interface with product teams where our features overlap with theirs, ensuring a coherent experience across different contexts that serves both teams’ goals. You’ll stress-test your work against a variety of edge cases, ensuring it holds up in all of the contexts it will live in. Who You Are - You have 10+ years of experience in digital product design - You have experience designing data-rich interfaces - You love the challenge of translating complex technical topics into clear UX - You develop fluency in the technical subject matter your product depends on and you can collaborate as a peer with engineering to weigh different solutions and evaluate tradeoffs - You have exceptional craft and the drive to elevate the look-and-feel of even workhorse UI - You have experience creating component-based design patterns and working with established design systems, though you relish the chance to explore new approaches - Your work is informed by a deep understanding of user archetypes and business needs - You value data driven decision making but are also confident making a judgment call based on your expertise - You have strong written and verbal communication skills that show up in how you share in, Slack messages, meetings docs, presentations, video walkthroughs, and anything else. - You're fluent in AI-assisted workflows, using tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Figma Make daily for research, analysis, content generation, and rapid prototyping. You’re excited to use these tools to try different approaches to creating design artifacts. A strong eagerness to adopt these approaches counts if you’re newer to them. - You are energized by working on multiple projects simultaneously - You give and receive feedback well, supporting and improving the work of your colleagues as well as your own Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply. Benefits and Growth - 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 Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog. Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers

10+ years of experience in digital product design; experience designing data-rich interfaces; ability to translate complex technical topics into clear UX; develop fluency in the technical subject matter and collaborate as a peer with engineering to weigh different solutions and evaluate tradeoffs; exceptional craft and drive to elevate UI quality; experience creating component-based design patterns and working with design systems; strong understanding of user archetypes and business needs; data-driven decision making with the ability to make judgment calls based on expertise; strong written and verbal communication skills; fluency with AI-assisted workflows and tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Figma Make) for research, analysis, content generation, and rapid prototyping; ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously; ability to give and receive feedback to improve team outcomes.

Lead design for platform features that affect UX at a massive scale within a highly technical product environment; develop subject matter expertise and drive roadmaps and vision; partner with PMs and engineers to understand customer pain points, explore solutions, and ship UI; prototype in code to share high-fidelity ideas early; iterate with tight feedback loops to approach an ideal user experience; communicate context and solutions to stakeholders up to executive leadership; raise the quality bar for admin experiences while leveraging Datadog's design system where appropriate and exploring alternative design patterns when beneficial; collaborate with cross-team product contexts to ensure a coherent experience; stress-test designs against edge cases across contexts.