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Staff Product Designer, APM

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

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

The Staff Product Designer will lead design initiatives within the APM team, focusing on creating intuitive experiences for complex technical workflows. They will collaborate with PMs and engineers to drive product direction and enhance user understanding of system behavior.

Responsibilities

  • Designing intuitive experiences for highly technical systems, balancing user needs with platform scalability and engineering constraints
  • Partnering closely with PMs and engineers to design and implement solutions
  • Driving end-to-end product thinking across onboarding, instrumentation, troubleshooting, debugging, runtime analysis, and performance investigation workflows
  • Navigating ambiguity and defining product direction through research, systems thinking, prototyping, and iterative execution
  • Collaborating closely with engineering teams through implementation, prototyping interactions in code, and refining product quality

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in digital product design
  • Strong portfolio demonstrating a track record of designing and shipping complex technical products and systems-oriented workflows
  • Experience designing for developer platforms, observability tools, infrastructure products, or other highly technical domains
  • Ability to operate in ambiguous environments and influence product direction through strong systems thinking and product judgment

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, 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

Key Skills

Product design Digital product design Technical product design Systems thinking Product judgment Ambiguity navigation Research Prototyping Iterative execution Collaboration Communication Leadership Cross-functional collaboration AI-assisted workflows Design tools Code-aware tooling AI-assisted prototyping

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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