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Staff Product Designer, APM

Datadog 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America

Hybrid $210,000 - $280,000 Full-time Staff

Lead the design strategy for the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) team to create intuitive experiences for complex technical workflows. Partner with PMs and engineers to bridge the gap between technical requirements and user needs while mentoring other designers.

Responsibilities

  • Become a design leader within APM
  • Partner with PMs and engineers to design intuitive experiences
  • Drive end-to-end product thinking across onboarding, instrumentation, troubleshooting, and performance investigation workflows
  • Navigate ambiguity and define product direction through research, systems thinking, and prototyping

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in digital product design
  • Strong portfolio showcasing complex technical products and systems-oriented workflows
  • Experience designing for developer platforms, observability tools, infrastructure products, or other highly technical domains

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
  • Inclusive company culture and access to Community Guilds
  • Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents

Key Skills

Digital product design Complex technical products and systems-oriented workflows Developer platforms Observability tools Infrastructure products Technical domains Design leadership Systems thinking Prototyping Research Communication Collaboration Design tools like Figma and Adobe CreativeCloud AI-assisted workflows and prototyping tools

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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