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Staff Product Designer - Metrics

Datadog ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ New York, New York, United States of America

Hybrid $204,000 - $255,000 Full-time Senior

Lead the design of the Metrics platform, focusing on 0-to-1 problems and translating complex technical subject matter into simple user experiences. Partner with engineering and product teams to define how customers troubleshoot and govern high-volume observability data sets.

Responsibilities

  • Lead design across workflows and partner with product managers, engineers, and designers
  • Define how customers reason about and govern their telemetry at scale
  • Communicate design work and support for design decisions internally
  • Take a strategic role in shaping the direction of Metrics and advocating for design as a multiplier of engineering velocity and organizational alignment
  • Champion design quality across the organization

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in product design
  • Proven track record of leading end-to-end design on ambiguous, technically deep problems
  • Fluent in technical subject matter and comfortable reasoning about data structures and system architectures
  • Excellent visual and written communicator
  • Experience with advanced prototyping tools
  • Understanding of systems thinking and design flows that scale across many variations and edge cases

Benefits

  • New hire stock equity and employee stock purchase plan
  • Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
  • Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program
  • Inclusive company culture and ability to join Community Guilds
  • Access to Inclusion Talks and internal panel discussions
  • Free global mental health benefits for employees and dependents

Key Skills

Product design Technical subject matter Data structures System architectures Advanced prototyping tools Figma Cursor Claude Code Systems thinking Design flows Communication Collaboration Leadership User-centered design Design thinking Agile Scrum

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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