Senior Staff Product Designer, Design Lab

<p data-local-id="555dcc047bd0" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true" data-pm-slice="1 1 []">&nbsp;</p> <p data-local-id="555dcc047bd0" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true" data-pm-slice="1 1 []">Datadog is entering a new chapter in how our product looks, feels, and operates. Our&nbsp;<a href="https://lab.datadog.design/" data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="link"><u data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="underline">Design Lab</u></a> is defining a new visual direction for the platform, and we’re looking for a <strong data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="strong">Senior Staff Visual Product Designer</strong> to help turn that direction into a coherent product experience.</p> <p data-local-id="3aa3e9faa51f" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">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.</p> <p data-local-id="f2b78342e795" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">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.</p> <p data-local-id="45d9c396bf38" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">&nbsp;</p> <p data-local-id="9520a3acdb67" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><strong data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="strong">What You'll Do</strong></p> <ul> <li data-local-id="c8ebf632b6fd" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">Co-develop Datadog’s next visual direction by applying and stress-testing it across representative product journeys.</li> <li data-local-id="2f08267b9601" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">Translate visual principles into concrete decisions about hierarchy, layout, navigation, information architecture, interaction, and behavior.</li> <li data-local-id="306a3684c293" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">Use visual language to clarify complex, data-dense experiences — hierarchy, density, and attention.</li> <li data-local-id="0ecb384eb962" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">Hold the visual quality bar across work you don't own, and align teams around it.</li> <li data-local-id="b8c8166ed93b" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">Prototype, test, and refine new patterns before they become systemized.</li> <li data-local-id="3740b3fbf09e" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">Partner deeply with Product Design, Design Systems, and engineering to turn successful concepts into durable system guidance and implementation.</li> <li data-local-id="71b6536826f4" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">Create clear artifacts, pilots, and narratives that help teams adopt the direction and raise the product quality bar.</li> <li data-local-id="3733d6050499" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">Influence stakeholders across design, engineering, product, and executive partners.</li> </ul> <p data-local-id="64429f441d83" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">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.</p> <p data-local-id="af61e8a04df4" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><strong data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="strong">Who You Are</strong></p> <ul> <li data-local-id="8a237338f673" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">You have 12+ years of experience in product and/or visual design.</li> <li data-local-id="3409424a3fae" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">Your craft is elevated, and you can execute it yourself at a high bar.</li> <li data-local-id="afd91419c3a0" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">You're product-native. You understand how visual design and product design act on each other in practice.</li> <li data-local-id="7f2fda29c26f" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">You use visual language to clarify an experience, and you can say why a decision improves it.</li> <li data-local-id="1418af9c74f2" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">You think in information architecture, hierarchy, and holistic system work.</li> <li data-local-id="d3da5d332445" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">You've taken a concept and turned it into patterns that scaled across a real product.</li> <li data-local-id="8c6329dd5862" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">You're comfortable operating in ambiguity and in large, complex organizations.</li> <li d