Staff Product Designer - Infrastructure

Datadog seeks a Staff Product Designer in Infrastructure to lead design initiatives, shape UX vision, and create cohesive user experiences across various Infra areas.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-impact design initiatives across Containers, Serverless, Networking, and other Infra areas to create a unified, guided experience.
• Shape the long-term UX vision for Infra, ensuring customers can quickly identify anomalies, understand their impact, and move seamlessly to investigation and resolution.
• Identify and prioritize opportunities to create more integrated and intuitive cross-product experiences.
• Partner with PM and Engineering leadership to align roadmaps and drive cohesive multi-product user experiences.
• Elevate design craft by improving fragmented or legacy patterns, unifying shared Infra surfaces, and setting a high execution bar.
• Mentor and support designers in Infra, sharing frameworks, critiques, and best practices that raise quality and velocity.
• Represent design in strategy and planning, ensuring UX vision is embedded in OKRs, roadmaps, and cross-team priorities.
• Balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution, moving fluidly between long-term direction and delivering impactful iterations in mature products.

Requirements

• Staff-level designer with 10+ years of experience crafting complex, web-based products.
• Proven ability to tell compelling stories that advocate for users, build alignment, and articulate a clear design vision.
• Comfortable working across deeply technical domains and multi-product ecosystems.
• Natural collaborator and facilitator, skilled at navigating cross-functional dynamics with senior stakeholders.
• Experienced in creating and scaling design patterns across an organization.
• Skilled in balancing strategy, research, interaction design, and visual design to deliver elevated solutions.
• Successful track record leading 0→1 initiatives as well as scaling and iterating mature products.
• Strong at giving and receiving feedback, and fostering continuous improvement for yourself and your team.
• Actively mentors and guides other designers, raising the quality bar across the team.
• Deeply fluent in modern design tools like Figma, and continuously exploring new ways—including AI—to boost efficiency and prototyping speed.

Key Skills

• Experience designing for infrastructure, observability, or developer tools
• Familiarity with containerized environments, Kubernetes, or serverless architectures
• Experience in high-growth SaaS or B2B environments, particularly those supporting technical users

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
• 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
• Healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits
• A 401(k) plan and match
• Paid time off
• Fitness reimbursements
• A discounted employee stock purchase plan