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Datadog is seeking a Senior Manager of Product Design to lead the Security design team (K9 Design) across cloud, code, and data security products. You will lead a team of designers at various career stages, working to transform complex security signals into actionable insights for security practitioners. The role combines hands-on design leadership with team management and cross-functional partnership.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead design direction across security products, maintaining excellence in interactions, visual detail, consistency, and cohesion
- Actively participate in design work: run 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 component library, tailored to security practitioner workflows
- Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to evolve cross-platform thinking, shape roadmaps, and establish how disciplines work together
- Own accountability for product and business outcomes influenced by your team's design work
- Bring AI fluency to team processes, from design exploration and validation through shipping
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing unified visibility across technology stacks. The company serves Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders globally.
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
- Ideally: security domain experience or portfolio of information-dense, data-rich interfaces; industry-leading work on complex B2B, B2C, or consumer products equally valued
