Senior Staff Visual Product Designer - Design Lab

Datadog is entering a new chapter in how our product looks, feels, and operates. Our Design Lab is defining a new visual direction for the platform, and we’re looking for a Senior Staff Visual Product Designer to help turn that direction into a coherent product experience.

Datadog is dense, technical, and used by people working through complex problems—often under real pressure. The challenge is not simply applying a new aesthetic. It is rethinking hierarchy, layout, navigation, interaction, and product patterns so the experience becomes clearer, more cohesive, and more expressive without losing the power our users rely on.

This is a hands-on product design leadership role for someone who combines strong visual judgment with deep product and systems thinking. You’ll work alongside visual designers, motion designers, product designers, Design Systems, and Engineering to ensure the new direction changes how Datadog works—not just how it looks.

What You'll Do

• Co-develop Datadog’s next visual direction by applying and stress-testing it across representative product journeys.
• Translate visual principles into concrete decisions about hierarchy, layout, navigation, information architecture, interaction, and behavior.
• Use visual language to clarify complex, data-dense experiences — hierarchy, density, and attention.
• Hold the visual quality bar across work you don't own, and align teams around it.
• Prototype, test, and refine new patterns before they become systemized.
• Partner deeply with Product Design, Design Systems, and engineering to turn successful concepts into durable system guidance and implementation.
• Create clear artifacts, pilots, and narratives that help teams adopt the direction and raise the product quality bar.
• Influence stakeholders across design, engineering, product, and executive partners.

You will report directly to the Design Director and work as part of a small, focused team defining the future state before it scales across hundreds of designers and engineers.

Who You Are

• You have 12+ years of experience in product and/or visual design.
• Your craft is elevated, and you can execute it yourself at a high bar.
• You're product-native. You understand how visual design and product design act on each other in practice.
• You use visual language to clarify an experience, and you can say why a decision improves it.
• You think in information architecture, hierarchy, and holistic system work.
• You've taken a concept and turned it into patterns that scaled across a real product.
• You're comfortable operating in ambiguity and in large, complex organizations.
• Your portfolio demonstrates shipped product surfaces with exceptional visual quality.
• You are a persuasive collaborator who can make recommendations and align designers, engineers, product partners, and executives.

Why This Role Matters

DRUIDS powers every Datadog experience. The decisions made in this role will shape how millions of interactions feel across web, mobile, and emerging AI-driven surfaces. This is an opportunity to bring a new visual direction into a complex, engineering-forward platform and raise the craft bar across the organization.

About Datadog

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.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: 204000 - 255000 USD