Senior Staff Product Designer, Design Lab

DataDog
New York
Full timeUSD 204,000 - 255,000 annuallyFunction: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)Experience: 12+ yearsSkills: ["Visual judgment","Product thinking","Systems thinking","Collaboration","Stakeholder alignment"]

Help define and operationalize the next visual direction for a dense, engineering-forward product. Co-develop concepts across representative journeys, translating visual principles into decisions spanning hierarchy, layout, navigation, information architecture, interaction, and behavior. Prototype, test, and refine patterns before they become systemized, align teams around a visual quality bar, and partner with Design Systems, product design, and engineering to scale durable guidance.

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Senior Staff Product Designer, Design Lab

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Job Summary

Help define and operationalize the next visual direction for a dense, engineering-forward product. Co-develop concepts across representative journeys, translating visual principles into decisions spanning hierarchy, layout, navigation, information architecture, interaction, and behavior. Prototype, test, and refine patterns before they become systemized, align teams around a visual quality bar, and partner with Design Systems, product design, and engineering to scale durable guidance.
Location: New York
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Co-develop Datadog’s next visual direction and stress-test it across representative product journeys.
  • •Translate visual principles into concrete decisions about hierarchy, layout, navigation, information architecture, interaction, and behavior.
  • •Clarify complex, data-dense experiences using visual language focused on hierarchy, density, and attention.
  • •Prototype, test, and refine new patterns before they become systemized, and help teams adopt the direction.
  • •Hold and align teams around a visual quality bar by creating artifacts, pilots, and narratives and influencing stakeholders across design, engineering, product, and executives.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 204,000 - 255,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:EquityRsus401kHealth InsuranceDentalPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •12+ years of experience in product and/or visual design.
  • •Strong ability to execute visual craft at a high bar.
  • •Deep understanding of how visual design and product design influence each other in practice.
  • •Use visual language to clarify complex, data-dense experiences and explain why decisions improve them.
  • •Think in information architecture, hierarchy, and holistic system work; scale concepts into patterns across a real product.
Experience:12+ years
Skills:Visual judgmentProduct thinkingSystems thinkingCollaborationStakeholder alignment
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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