Digital & Motion Designer

🏢 Summary: Senior strategic lead role owning a portfolio of high-impact client accounts and translating business objectives into integrated, full-funnel media strategies. Responsible for executive client leadership, media mix architecture, advanced measurement frameworks, and overall account health including revenue and profitability. Combines visionary strategy with operational rigor to drive measurable growth across multi-channel ecosystems. 🗂️ Requirements: 7+ years experience in media or marketing strategy, Experience leading complex multi-channel accounts with full-funnel ownership, Strong financial acumen in budget forecasting and revenue management, Experience leading executive-level client engagements, Deep understanding of attribution models, incrementality testing, and media mix modeling, Ability to translate business objectives into integrated media and data strategies, Strong organizational leadership experience, Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Business or equivalent experience 📃 Skills: PaidSearch, Social, Programmatic, Video, CTV, YouTube, RetailMedia, MTA, MMM, Attribution, Incrementality, Analytics, Budgeting, Forecasting 🏢 Description: The Role As a Director, Client Strategy (Media Director), you are the senior strategic lead and business owner across a portfolio of high-impact client relationships. You serve as a primary lead for the client, bridging the gap between their bottom-line business objectives and integrated marketing execution, ensuring that every engagement drives measurable business growth while strengthening long-term partnerships. You are responsible for translating complex business objectives into cohesive, full-funnel marketing strategies across the integrated media ecosystem. This includes architecting the media mix, aligning measurement frameworks, guiding audience strategy, and ensuring cross-channel execution ladders back to enterprise goals. Beyond strategy development, you are accountable for overall account health—including client satisfaction, retention, revenue growth, and profitability. You serve as a trusted advisor to executive-level client stakeholders while mentoring and leading cross-functional internal teams to deliver exceptional work. This role requires a balance of visionary strategic thinking and operational rigor. Benefits - Remote-first culture - Unlimited PTO - Extended Holiday break (Winter) - Flexible schedules - Work from anywhere options* - 100% paid parental leave - 401(k) matching - Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Pet Insurance - Sponsored life insurance - Short Term Disability insurance and additional voluntary insurance - Annual Class Pass credits and more Compensation The anticipated annual salary for this role will range from $120,000 - $140,000. The total compensation package includes the benefits listed above and an annual performance bonus. This role has an associated annual target bonus component paid out based on company, department, and individual performance. Bonuses are not guaranteed and eligibility requires active employment in good standing. You Will Be - Serving as the strategic lead and primary business owner across a portfolio of accounts - Designing and guiding multi-channel strategies across Paid Search, Social, Programmatic, Video, CTV, YouTube, Retail Media, and emerging platforms - Translating client KPIs, unit economics, and growth goals into structured media investment frameworks and budget allocations - Leading executive-level client engagements including QBRs, annual planning sessions, and strategic presentations - Identifying same-store growth and expansion opportunities while partnering with Business Development - Owning account health metrics including retention, revenue growth, profitability, and delivery quality - Ensuring all deliverables meet strategic standards and drive measurable impact - Partnering with Analytics teams to operationalize MTA, MMM, incrementality testing, and advanced measurement frameworks - Driving structured test-and-learn roadmaps to unlock performance gains - Acting as the connective lead between media, analytics, creative, and client leadership - Leading and mentoring channel team members - Elevating internal processes, planning rigor, and strategic storytelling standards - Staying ahead of industry trends, emerging platforms, and technology shifts You Must Have - 7+ years of experience in media, marketing strategy, or integrated client leadership - Proven experience leading complex, multi-channel accounts with full-funnel strategy ownership - Strong financial acumen, including budget forecasting, revenue management, and profitability oversight - Demonstrated ability to lead executive-level client conversations and influence senior stakeholders - Deep understanding of measurement frameworks including attribution models, incrementality testing, and media mix modeling - Experience translating business objectives into integrated media, creative, and data strategies - Exceptional communication skills - Strong organizational leadership skills - Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or equivalent experience Nice to Have - Experience working within an agency environment supporting enterprise or high-growth brands - Exposure to brand, retail, or streaming/entertainment clients - Familiarity with advanced analytics tools and dashboard platforms - Experience supporting new business pitches and commercial strategy

🏢 Summary: Senior Product Designer, Motion role focused on defining and coding motion systems and AI-first interaction patterns across a large-scale SaaS platform. The position drives evolution of the design system by creating scalable motion patterns, prototypes, and visual frameworks in close collaboration with engineering and product teams. It emphasizes hands-on design, coding, and AI-assisted workflows to shape future-facing user experiences. 🗂️ Requirements: 7+ years of product design experience, Minimum 1 year working with design systems, Strong portfolio in product and interaction design, Experience designing and coding motion systems, Proficiency in front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, React, SVG), Experience with AI-assisted design workflows, Advanced prototyping experience, Ability to collaborate closely with engineering teams 📃 Skills: Motion, DesignSystems, InteractionDesign, Prototyping, Figma, HTML, CSS, React, SVG, AI, Cursor, Claude 🏢 Description: We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer, Motion to innovate and implement how motion and AI-first interaction functions across Datadog’s products and contribute to the visual design evolution of Datadog’s design system. In this role you’ll bring expertise in motion design to reinforce clarity, express system intelligence, and elevate craft throughout the product. Design Lab operates at the intersection of engineering and design, focused on advancing craft and building shared design capabilities that enable exceptional experiences at scale. You’ll partner closely with design systems and product teams to push the visual language forward while ensuring it scales across one of the most complex SaaS platforms in the industry. This is an exciting role for a creative product builder who embraces new technologies to explore and shape the future of how we design at scale. In this role, you’re not limited to one medium, you will use pixels, code, and AI to advance the design language of Datadog, contribute to the design system, define patterns, evolve design tooling, and influence excellence across multiple products. This role is well suited for someone excited about empowering teams through systems and raising the bar for motion design and visual craft across the product ecosystem. Your work will impact every part of our ecosystem, including driving the future of user experience with AI tools and prototyping. This is not a maintenance or governance role. It’s a future-facing role for a designer with strong visual taste, a point of view, and the ability to bring others along. Our team thrives on strong cross-functional relationships, thoughtful critique, and high standards. 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: Evolve Datadog’s visual design direction at the system level, defining new motion experience patterns and interaction models Design and code the motion system for the design system, including motion tokens, component behaviors, transitions, and icon illustrations Prototype and iterate on new visual ideas with AI-assisted workflows Partner with Brand and Product Design to align product visuals with Datadog’s broader design language Work closely with the Design Systems engineering team to ensure high-quality implementation and code quality Who You Are: You are a designer who embraces new technologies, including code and AI You have 7+ years of experience in product design with at least 1+ of those years focused on or working closely with design systems Your portfolio includes a proven track record of excellent design craft (product and platform) and interaction design You’re fluent in how design intersects with front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, React, SVG, AI-first tooling) You are an excellent visual and written communicator, able to clearly communicate your design work and the support for your design decisions You have experience with advanced prototyping tools (e.g. Figma, Cursor, Claude, etc) 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. #LI-HybridDatadog 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 a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:$157,000—$205,000 USD About Datadog: Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. 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