Senior Product Designer - AAA

Datadog; New York (NY); On-site; USD 161,000 - 202,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock equity (RSUs)

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Professional development opportunities

Inclusive corporate culture

Global mental health benefits

Comprehensive employee benefits

Job summary

Datadog is looking for a Senior Product Designer in New York City to drive the design of platform features impacting user experience at scale. In this role, you'll collaborate with engineering and PM teams, leverage AI tools, and advocate for UI best practices. With over 10 years in digital design, you will translate technical topics into accessible UX while maintaining a strong design vision.

The position offers a competitive salary between $161,000 and $202,000, stock equity options, and extensive benefits to foster professional development.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in digital product design.
• Experience designing data-rich interfaces.
• Fluent in AI-assisted workflows.
• Strong communication skills across multiple formats.

Responsibilities

• Lead design for features in a platform environment.
• Collaborate closely with PM and engineering teams.
• Present designs to stakeholders and gather feedback.
• Ensure designs meet user needs and business goals.

Skills

Digital product design

Data-rich interfaces

Clear UX for complex topics

Component-based design patterns

Strong written and verbal communication

AI-assisted workflows

Tools

Figma

Claude Code

Cursor

Job description

Role Overview

We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer with a passion for building platform features that impact UX at a massive scale. As a member of AAA, you’ll work across a breadth of problem spaces on deeply technical topics, such as governance, access, teams, identity, and multi-org UX. You’ll lead design for features that mediate how Datadog’s biggest customers use the platform and manage what their employees can see and do.

What You’ll Do

AAA is a highly technical product environment, where designers strive to understand the technical workflows, constraints and opportunities within this domain. As you develop subject matter expertise, you’ll use your influence as a Senior designer to drive the roadmap and vision.

Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with your PM and engineering partners to understand customers’ pain points, explore solutions, and build UI that ships. Prototyping in code creates the opportunity to share high-fidelity ideas at early stages, even if the design itself is low-fidelity. Tight feedback loops let your team iterate quickly, building towards an ideal vision for the best possible experience while you ship incremental steps towards that goal.

In addition to making the work, you will also share your work with stakeholders at varying levels of seniority, all the way up to executive leadership level. Your crisp context setting and clear description of your solution will help people understand your choices and sell them on your proposal.

Your work will up-level the quality bar for what an admin experience can look like. While you’ll leverage Datadog’s design system where it makes sense, you won’t let it prevent broad exploration of different design patterns in the service of finding the optimal solution.

As part of a Platform team, you’ll interface with product teams where our features overlap with theirs, ensuring a coherent experience across different contexts that serves both teams’ goals. You’ll stress-test your work against a variety of edge cases, ensuring it holds up in all of the contexts it will live in.

Who You Are

• You have 10+ years of experience in digital product design
• You have experience designing data-rich interfaces
• You love the challenge of translating complex technical topics into clear UX
• You develop fluency in the technical subject matter your product depends on and you can collaborate as a peer with engineering to weigh different solutions and evaluate tradeoffs
• You have exceptional craft and the drive to elevate the look-and-feel of even workhorse UI
• You have experience creating component-based design patterns and working with established design systems, though you relish the chance to explore new approaches
• Your work is informed by a deep understanding of user archetypes and business needs
• You value data driven decision making but are also confident making a judgment call based on your expertise
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills that show up in how you share in Slack messages, meetings docs, presentations, video walkthroughs, and anything else.
• You're fluent in AI-assisted workflows, using tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Figma Make daily for research, analysis, content generation, and rapid prototyping. You’re excited to use these tools to try different approaches to creating design artifacts. A strong eagerness to adopt these approaches counts if you’re newer to them.
• You are energized by working on multiple projects simultaneously
• You give and receive feedback well, supporting and improving the work of your colleagues as well as your own

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.

We offer 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, we offer 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: $161,000 — $202,000 USD

Equal Opportunity at Datadog

Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.