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Salary: USD 204,000 - 255,000 / annual
Datadog's Security design team (K9 Design) is seeking a Senior Manager of Product Design to lead design across security products. You will manage a team of designers at various career stages across cloud, code, and data security, transforming complex security signals into actionable interfaces for security practitioners.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead design direction and hold the bar for design excellence across interactions, visual detail, consistency, and cohesion
- Run design critiques, provide direct feedback, and push the team toward bold, opinionated solutions
- Coach and grow designers across Paris, Madrid, and New York offices
- Define a security-focused design system built on Datadog's existing components with security practitioner workflows in mind
- Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to evolve cross-platform thinking, shape roadmaps, and establish how disciplines work together
- Take accountability for product and business outcomes influenced by your team's design work
- Bring AI fluency to team workflows, from design exploration and validation to shipping
Datadog is a leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing unified visibility across technology stacks. The company operates as a hybrid workplace with offices in New York, Paris, and Madrid.
Requirements:
- 10+ years in design, including experience leading and growing high-performing teams
- Design leader first: user advocate with sharp eye for detail, strong taste, and willingness to get into the work and give direct feedback
- Track record of leveling up team output with before-and-after examples of how your leadership transformed product design
- Experience leading complex products or features: zero-to-one launches, reimagining established products, or both
- Strong communicator who collaborates effectively with executive and cross-functional stakeholders
- Demonstrated AI fluency, either in your own work or in leading teams through it
- Comfortable navigating technical complexity of modern software development and cloud infrastructure
- Requirement: Demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output
- Bonus: Motivated to push boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products
- Ideally: Security domain experience or portfolio of information-dense, data-rich interfaces. Industry-leading work on complex B2B, B2C, or consumer products equally valued
