Senior Product Designer, Data Visualization

Design interactive visualizations for Datadog's observability products and collaborate with product designers, managers, and engineers. Communicate design work and decisions across the company while gaining insights from user research and prototyping.

Responsibilities

• Work with other product designers, product managers, and engineers to understand how customers use visualizations across Datadog and what they need to succeed
• Design interactive visualizations shared across multiple Datadog products
• Design exploratory and explanatory visualizations alongside automated insights into infrastructure, security, networking, and other observability data
• See your design work through from start to finish: gain insights from user research, sketch ideas, build prototypes, and communicate with engineers that build the products and features that make Datadog better
• Become an expert in visualizations and your product area
• Communicate both your design work and the support for your design decisions across the company
• Work closely with engineering teams to understand how your designs will be built

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in digital product design
• Experience building code-based prototypes with D3.js or similar visualization frameworks and knowledge of advanced design tools (e.g. Figma, or Framer)
• Portfolio includes a proven track record of designing visualizations for interactive web applications
• Excellent visual and written communicator, able to clearly communicate your design work and the support for your design decisions
• Understanding of systems thinking and component-based design patterns
• Give and receive feedback well, supporting and improving the work of your colleagues as well as your own

Key Skills

• Digital product design
• Code-based prototypes with D3.js or similar visualization frameworks
• Advanced design tools (e.g. Figma, or Framer)
• Visual and written communication
• Systems thinking
• Component-based design patterns
• Feedback

Benefits

• 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
• 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