Senior Product Designer - Motion and Design Systems
Datadog đşđ¸ New York, New York, United States of America
This role involves designing and implementing motion across Datadog's product suite and contributing to the evolution of DRUIDS, the design system, by defining patterns and design tooling. The designer will also drive excellence across multiple products, impacting the user experience future with AI tools and prototyping.
Responsibilities
- Evolve Datadog's visual design direction at the system level, defining new motion experience patterns and interaction models
- Design and code the motion system for the design system, including motion tokens, component behaviors, transitions, and icon illustrations
- Prototype and iterate on new visual ideas with AI-assisted workflows
- Partner with Brand and Product Design to align product visuals with Datadog's broader design language
- Work closely with the Design Systems engineering team to ensure high-quality implementation and code quality
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in product design with at least 2+ years focused on design systems
- Proven track record of excellent design craft (product and platform) and interaction design
- Fluent in how design intersects with front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, React, SVG, AI-first tooling)
- Excellent visual and written communicator, able to clearly communicate design work and support for design decisions
- Experience with advanced prototyping tools (e.g. Figma, Cursor, Claude, etc)
- Ability to give and receive feedback well, supporting and improving the work of colleagues as well as own work
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 Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
- Access to Inclusion Talks, internal panel discussions
- Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
- Competitive global benefits
Key Skills
About Datadog
Datadog is the essential monitoring platform for cloud applications. We bring together data from servers, containers, databases, and third-party services to make your stack entirely observable. These capabilities help DevOps teams avoid downtime, resolve performance issues, and ensure customers are getting the best user experience.
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