Staff Product Designer

Responsibilities

• Act as a design leader within the APM team, shaping design strategy across multiple product areas and workflows.
• Partner with PMs and engineers to design intuitive experiences for highly technical systems, balancing user needs with scalability and engineering constraints.
• Drive end-to-end product thinking across onboarding, instrumentation, troubleshooting, and performance investigation workflows.
• Navigate ambiguity to define product direction through research, systems thinking, and iterative prototyping.
• Use AI-assisted workflows and prototyping tools to rapidly explore ideas and validate concepts.
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams through implementation and refine product quality in production-like environments.
• Mentor and support other designers by providing feedback and helping raise the overall quality bar across the organization.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in digital product design.
• Proven track record of designing and shipping complex technical products and systems-oriented workflows.
• Experience designing for developer platforms, observability tools, infrastructure products, or other highly technical domains.
• Strong systems thinking and product judgment with the ability to influence product direction in ambiguous environments.
• Demonstrated experience conducting research, synthesizing insights, and influencing cross-functional product strategy.
• Proficiency in modern design and prototyping tools, including an interest in AI-assisted design workflows.
• Excellent communication skills to build alignment and articulate a clear design vision to stakeholders.

Benefits

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing.
• Inclusive company culture with access to Community Guilds and internal panel discussions.
• Global mental health benefits for employees and dependents.
• Competitive global benefits package.

About the Company

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. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence.