Senior Director, Product Design at Datadog

Datadog is seeking a seasoned design leader to accelerate the evolution of its core products and help us define what’s next. These products power how engineers visualize, optimize and troubleshoot complex, distributed systems at scale. In this role, you’ll lead a 40-person design team across North America and Europe, shaping how often the invisible world of infrastructure becomes understandable, navigable, actionable and deeply human. It’s an opportunity to craft the design vision for our customers to see, interpret, and act on live data—transforming dense technical signals into experiences that feel clear, intuitive, and empowering.

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. This role is based in New York.

What you’ll do:

Grow, mentor, and lead a talented and diverse team of global design managers and product designers.

Partner with cross-functional partners to establish roadmaps, metrics, and goals.

Help the team to Design ahead and set the vision for the user experience to meet customer and business needs.

Guide and accelerate your team, oversee multiple workstreams, and connect the dots between cross-org products for your team to deliver a cohesive customer experience.

Be the champion for product excellence.

You’ll report to the Head of Design and work with peer leaders to strengthen our processes, tools, and design organization.

Who You Are:

15 years experience in product design with 8 years experience managing managers.

Strong experience and portfolio that showcases a track record of design leadership, end-to-end experience ownership, and design excellence.

Strong customer advocacy with a penchant for data and business-informed design.

Experience of building complex products.

Experience of building B2B saas products is desirable but not required.

Ability to dabble in the technical breadth and depth of modern software development.

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:

$255,000—$350,000 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. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.

Equal Opportunity at Datadog:

Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.

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Senior Director, Product Design

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