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Senior Design Manager - Design Systems

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

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

Lead the design systems team to define the direction, roadmap, and quality standards for the DRUIDS system. Partner with product designers, engineers, and PMs to build tools and workflows that integrate design systems into the product development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design systems team to define the direction, roadmap, and quality standards for the DRUIDS system. Partner with product designers, engineers, and PMs to build tools and workflows that integrate design systems into the product development lifecycle.

Requirements

  • Requires 8+ years of experience in product design with at least 3 years in a management role. Candidates must possess strong front-end coding knowledge and the ability to influence cross-functional leadership.

Benefits

  • Stock equity
  • Employee stock purchase plan
  • Professional development
  • Product training
  • Mentor program
  • Mental health benefits
  • Healthcare
  • Dental
  • Parental planning
  • 401(k) plan
  • Paid time off
  • Fitness reimbursements

Key Skills

Design systems Front‑end coding HTML CSS JavaScript React Design tokens UI component libraries Roadmap planning Stakeholder management Product design Figma Sketch Agile methodology Cross‑functional collaboration Design ops System documentation Prototyping Wireframing User research

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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