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Datadog is undergoing a major visual and interaction redesign through its Design Lab initiative. This role is a hands-on, high-impact individual contributor position for a Senior Staff Product Designer to lead the visual direction and product experience transformation across the platform.
You will co-develop Datadog's next visual direction by applying and stress-testing it across representative product journeys. The core challenge is not simply applying a new aesthetic—it's rethinking hierarchy, layout, navigation, interaction, and product patterns so the experience becomes clearer, more cohesive, and more expressive without losing the power users rely on for complex, data-dense work.
Key responsibilities include:
- Translating visual principles into concrete decisions about hierarchy, layout, navigation, information architecture, interaction, and behavior
- Using visual language to clarify complex, data-dense experiences through hierarchy, density, and attention management
- Holding the visual quality bar across work you don't directly own and aligning teams around it
- Prototyping, testing, and refining new patterns before they become systemized
- Partnering deeply with Product Design, Design Systems, and engineering to turn successful concepts into durable system guidance and implementation
- Creating clear artifacts, pilots, and narratives that help teams adopt the direction and raise the product quality bar
- Influencing stakeholders across design, engineering, product, and executive partners
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. This is a leadership role that combines strong visual judgment with deep product and systems thinking, working alongside visual designers, motion designers, product designers, Design Systems, and Engineering teams.
