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Salary: USD 70,000 - 93,000 / annual
Datadog is seeking a Senior Group Manager of Experience Design to lead and grow the Experience Design group within the Web Experience team. You will manage two designers today while helping shape how the team scales over time. This is a hybrid role based in New York that blends people leadership with hands-on design execution.
You will set a high bar for craft and execution across research, journey mapping, interaction design, prototyping, implementation, and post-launch quality. Key responsibilities include hiring, coaching, and developing designers while maintaining clear expectations and design standards. You will design priority web experiences from discovery through shipped pages, working directly with Product Marketing, Growth, Web Engineering, and Web Content Engineering to move ideas to shipped experiences.
You will prototype with AI and working code, using Figma MCP and Code Connect to keep design and implementation aligned, and work directly in the CMS when appropriate. You will own and evolve the team's design process across discovery, critique, specification, handoff, and post-launch quality assurance. The role offers the opportunity to grow an Experience Design function while continuing to work directly on complex, high-impact design challenges, shape how the team approaches design craft and critique, and help define how the team scales as its scope evolves.
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing unified visibility across the technology stack. The company is trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Experienced across UX/UI, journey mapping, and web design with a portfolio of shipped, high-traffic marketing or product marketing experiences and particular depth in web and product experience
- A people leader who remains actively involved in design work and is comfortable moving between team leadership and hands-on execution
- Comfortable using code as part of the design process, including prototyping, reading implementation details, working with Figma MCP and Code Connect, and building within a modern CMS
- Experienced using AI to prototype, explore design directions, and reduce repetitive work, with a thoughtful perspective on where AI adds value to the design process
- Experienced hiring, coaching, and developing designers, including giving actionable feedback and supporting specialists with deep expertise in their disciplines
