Staff Product Designer

🏢 Summary: Own and evolve the core design system for a high-scale consumer app, covering components, tokens, patterns, documentation, and AI-enabled workflows. Partner with designers and engineers to improve system adoption, visual consistency, and design-to-code implementation in a lean hybrid environment. 🗂️ Requirements: 5+ years of product or visual design experience, 2–3 years of design-system ownership, Experience building or maintaining systems at small or mid-size companies with limited resources, Strong visual design portfolio covering typography, color, iconography, spacing, and motion, Figma proficiency: component architecture, variables, auto layout, and design tokens, Experience partnering with engineers on coded design-system implementation and handoff, Experience documenting systems for designers, engineers, and non-design stakeholders, Hybrid availability in San Francisco or Los Angeles; in-office Tuesdays and Thursdays 📃 Skills: Figma, Typography, Color, Iconography, Spacing, Motion, Components, Variables, Autolayout, Tokens, AI 🏢 Description: About the Team The Design team owns the visual and interaction language of a product used by millions of people daily. This role is foundational to scaling the team’s craft by building and maintaining the design system that powers the core app and, over time, the broader product surface. The team has a foundational design system and an opportunity to improve quality and visual design, innovate, modernize, and use AI to accelerate work. This is a hybrid role based in the San Francisco or Los Angeles office and requires in-person work on Tuesdays and Thursdays. About the Job • Own the development, documentation, and ongoing refinement of the core design system, including components, tokens, patterns, and usage guidelines. • Partner directly with product designers and engineers to ensure consistent adoption and evolution based on real product needs. • Identify and resolve design inconsistencies across the core app, driving a more coherent and efficient product experience. • Contribute strong visual design craft to the system through considered, polished execution that raises the product quality bar. • Operate autonomously in a lean environment: prioritize effectively, make defensible decisions without heavy process, and move quickly without creating debt. • Lead integration of the design system with AI tools. Role Requirements • 5+ years of product or visual design experience, including 2–3 years of focused design-system ownership; experience must include building or significantly evolving a system, not only contributing to one. • Experience at smaller or mid-size companies building or maintaining systems with limited resources and without a dedicated systems team. • Strong visual design skills in typography, color, iconography, spacing, and motion, demonstrated in a portfolio that shows craft and systems thinking. • Proficiency in Figma, including component architecture, variables, auto layout, and design token management. • Track record of partnering with engineers to implement design systems in code and working across design-to-development handoff. • Experience documenting systems clearly for product designers, engineers, and non-design stakeholders. You May Thrive in This Role If You • Actively use AI tools in your workflow and seek new ways to leverage them. • Thrive as the primary owner of a system, making decisions, documenting them, and standing behind them. • Value both the quality of system outputs and the quality of the system itself, balancing visual craft with structural rigor. • Are energized by limited headcount, fast timelines, and high standards. Benefits and Perks • Health, dental, and vision coverage: full premium coverage for employees and partial coverage for dependents. • Family formation support: up to $300,000 for fertility and family-building support, including IVF, surrogacy, egg freezing, and adoption. • Retirement: 401(k) with a 6% match and immediate vesting. • Compensation: industry-competitive compensation, company bonus, and equity for every employee. • Gender-affirming care: up to 90% cost coverage, access to Included Health, monthly HRT stipends, and more. • Time off and rest: flexible vacation policy and two company-wide rest weeks per year. • Additional benefits: monthly stipends for cell phone, internet, wellness, food, and commuting, plus breakfast and lunch. Equal Opportunity Equal-opportunity employer.

🏢 Summary: Design and ship 0–1 agentic marketing tools that use first-party data and machine learning to support real-time customer-journey decisions. This remote North America role emphasizes rapid prototyping, customer research, product strategy, and close collaboration with design, engineering, and product teams. 🗂️ Requirements: 6+ years designing and shipping user-friendly features or applications in technical spaces, Strong visual, UI, and interaction design skills, Ability to take user problems from concept to high-fidelity solutions, Figma proficiency, Ability to work in rapid, ambiguous experimentation cycles and iterate from feedback, Availability to work remotely in North America 📃 Skills: Figma, UI, Prototyping, Framer, Cursor, Claude 🏢 Description: Why this role matters Design the future of agentic marketing at a critical inflection point. The work focuses on building AI agents that make real-time, data-driven decisions across entire customer journeys. This is 0–1 product work in an emerging space. The team is building tools that blend first-party data with machine learning models to unlock new outcomes. The design team The remote-first design team works with minimal process and bureaucracy, emphasizing shipping, learning, and iteration. How we work: • Weekly crits: Share work and receive constructive feedback from relevant stakeholders. • Design jams: Collaborate on major initiatives such as color palettes, new patterns, and practice retrospectives. • Design system: Contribute to an expanding library and regularly synchronize with engineering. • Design cooldown: Participate in bi-weekly experimentation with new tools, design exercises, and side projects. Past activities include interactive Framer prototypes, AI design tools, and collaborative illustration. What you'll do Create and iterate on powerful tools for marketing teams using the Agents product suite. • 0–1 innovation: Build new products in uncharted territory. • Rapid iteration: Demonstrate thinking through rapid designs and prototypes rather than lengthy presentations. • Product strategy: Connect directly with customers through research sessions; synthesize usage data and feedback; use insights to influence product direction and prioritization. • Live collaboration: Work directly with designers, engineers, and product managers to define product details. • High growth: Learn quickly while building new capabilities. What you bring • 6+ years designing and shipping user-friendly features or applications in technical spaces; experience with B2B data or marketing products is a bonus. • Curiosity about AI and hands-on exploration of new technologies. • Strong visual, UI, and interaction design craft; ability to take a user problem from idea to a high-fidelity solution. • A kind, humble, collaborative approach and willingness to seek understanding before reacting. • Figma proficiency is required. Familiarity with Cursor, Framer, or Claude Code is a bonus. The reality check This role operates in rapid experimentation mode. You must be comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and iterating based on learnings. It is suited to candidates who want to build products that did not exist months earlier and own their domain in a fast-moving environment. Interview process • Recruiter screen [30m]: Introductory call. • Manager screen [30m]: Conversation about work history and career trajectory. • Team portfolio review [30m]: Review of previous work. • Design exercise [60m]: Live collaborative exercise to break down a problem; no homework. • Follow-up 1:1s [30m]: Meet team members and address final questions. FAQs • This role is remote for North America, with optional offices in NY, SF, and Charlotte. • Formal levels are not used; compensation and role scope will align with actual experience and skills. • Candidates may submit one application only and should apply to the role for which they are most qualified. E-Verify Statement After joining, eligibility to work in the U.S. will be verified by submitting Form I-9 information to the Social Security Administration and, if needed, the Department of Homeland Security. This occurs post-hire only and is not used to pre-screen applicants.

🏢 Summary: Senior Product Designer role focused on building scalable platform experiences for governance, access, teams, identity, and multi-organization workflows. The position partners with product and engineering to translate complex technical problems into high-quality, data-rich UI, prototypes, and cohesive admin experiences. 🗂️ Requirements: 10+ years of digital product design experience, Experience designing data-rich interfaces, Ability to translate complex technical topics into clear UX, Technical fluency to evaluate engineering tradeoffs, Experience with component-based patterns and design systems, Strong written and verbal communication skills 📃 Skills: UX, UI, Prototyping, Figma, Claude, Cursor, AI 🏢 Description: 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 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: $162,000 — $202,000 USD About Datadog: Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram , LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center. 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