Director, Product Design

Wwshemi; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 232,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Professional development

Mentor program

Inclusive culture

Mental health benefits

Healthcare coverage

Job summary

Datadog’s design leadership role is based in New York, offering a hybrid work arrangement. You will define the product direction for AI-enabled observability and security tools and build a high-performing, diverse team that ships with impact.

You bring 12+ years in product design, including 5+ years managing managers, a strong portfolio, and a data-driven, customer-focused mindset to drive product excellence across complex systems.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in product design, including 5+ years managing managers.
• Portfolio demonstrates design leadership, craft, end-to-end ownership, and product excellence.
• Strong customer advocacy, with design decisions grounded in data and business context.
• Experience building complex products, ideally B2B SaaS.
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle and enthusiasm for guiding teams to prototype in code and ship with AI.

Responsibilities

• Define a cohesive product vision and establish roadmaps, metrics, and goals with cross-functional peers.
• Champion product excellence and empower your team to deliver it.
• Build, develop, and lead a talented, diverse, global design team.
• Evolve how the team designs and builds with AI.
• Partner with Design peers to strengthen the design organization’s processes, tools, and capabilities.

Skills

Design leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Portfolio demonstration

Data-driven decisions

B2B SaaS experience

Job description

Datadog’s AI-powered observability and security platform is evolving fast, and we’re seeking a seasoned design leader to continue shaping our products and define what’s next. Our products help engineering and security teams see, understand, and act on what’s happening across complex systems at scale. In this role you’ll lead the design direction for a suite of products, building the right relationships, talent, and culture to ship that direction effectively. As AI changes how our customers work, and as designers ship in code, you’ll help define what great design looks like and how our team gets there.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. This role is based in New York.

What You’ll Do:

• Define a cohesive product vision and establish roadmaps, metrics, and goals with cross-functional peers.
• Champion product excellence and empower your team to deliver it.
• Build, develop, and lead a talented, diverse, global design team.
• Evolve how the team designs and builds with AI.
• Partner with Design peers to strengthen the design organization’s processes, tools, and capabilities.

Who You Are:

• 12+ years in product design, including 5+ years managing managers.
• A portfolio demonstrating design leadership, craft, end-to-end ownership, and product excellence.
• Strong customer advocacy, with design decisions grounded in data and business context.
• Experience building complex products, ideally B2B SaaS
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle and enthusiasm for guiding teams to prototype in code and ship with AI.

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits and Growth:

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Competitive global benefits

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

#LI-Hybrid

Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:

$232,000-$290,000 USD

About Datadog:

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. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/datadoghq/?hl=en), LinkedIn, (https://www.linkedin.com/company/datadog) and Datadog Learning Center. (https://learn.datadoghq.com/)

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