Senior Design Manager - Design Systems

DataDog
New York
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 204,000 - 255,000 annuallyFunction: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)Experience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Communication","Coaching","Quality mindset","Relationship building"]

Lead the DRUIDS design system team, setting direction for what ships, what stays with product teams, and how the system evolves. Own craft and quality for components, patterns, and principles while translating strategy into a roadmap with partners. Coach designers and design engineers, build tooling and workflows that make designing in code the default, and raise design quality across multiple Datadog products.

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DataDog
15 hours ago

Senior Design Manager - Design Systems

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Job Summary

Lead the DRUIDS design system team, setting direction for what ships, what stays with product teams, and how the system evolves. Own craft and quality for components, patterns, and principles while translating strategy into a roadmap with partners. Coach designers and design engineers, build tooling and workflows that make designing in code the default, and raise design quality across multiple Datadog products.
Location: New York
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead the DRUIDS team and set its direction, deciding what the system owns, ships, and keeps with product teams.
  • •Own where the system goes next by defining a design system vision and roadmap with partners on what gets built and when.
  • •Coach designers and design engineers, clarify ownership, and hire as the team grows.
  • •Own the craft and quality of components, patterns, and principles, deciding what is good enough for DRUIDS.
  • •Own the tooling and workflows that make the system usable, and define how design quality is evaluated and implemented across software shipping.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 204,000 - 255,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDental401kPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years in product design with 3+ years managing.
  • •Managed a design system team and grown it.
  • •Can read and write front-end code and discuss it confidently.
  • •Design with an opinionated point of view and make quality-based decisions.
  • •Strong communication and feedback skills that improve quality and direction.
Experience:8+ yearsDesign systemsProduct designFront-end
Skills:LeadershipCommunicationCoachingQuality mindsetRelationship building
Languages:English

Company Brief

DataDog
Provides a cloud-native monitoring and observability platform that unifies metrics, traces, logs, and security signals to help engineering, operations, and security teams monitor and troubleshoot modern applications and infrastructure.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2010
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