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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 company's design system. Manage and coach designers and design engineers while collaborating with product teams to ensure the system's effective adoption and evolution.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design systems team to define the direction, roadmap, and quality standards for the company's design system. Manage and coach designers and design engineers while collaborating with product teams to ensure the system's effective adoption and evolution.

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 stakeholders.

Benefits

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

Key Skills

product design design systems front‑end coding team leadership coach designers design engineering roadmap definition quality standards cross‑functional stakeholder influence agile methodology UX/UI principles collaboration with product teams strategic planning project management

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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