Director, Product Design

Datadog’s AI-powered observability and security platform is evolving fast, and we’re seeking a seasoned design leader to continue shaping our products and define what’s next. Our products help engineering and security teams see, understand, and act on what’s happening across complex systems at scale. In this role you’ll lead the design direction for a suite of products, building the right relationships, talent, and culture to ship that direction effectively.

As AI changes how our customers work, and as designers ship in code, you’ll help define what great design looks like and how our team gets there.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. This role is based in New York.

What You’ll Do:

• Define a cohesive product vision and establish roadmaps, metrics, and goals with cross-functional peers.
• Champion product excellence and empower your team to deliver it.
• Build, develop, and lead a talented, diverse, global design team.
• Evolve how the team designs and builds with AI.
• Partner with Design peers to strengthen the design organization’s processes, tools, and capabilities.

Who You Are:

• 12+ years in product design, including 5+ years managing managers.
• A portfolio demonstrating design leadership, craft, end-to-end ownership, and product excellence.
• Strong customer advocacy, with design decisions grounded in data and business context.
• Experience building complex products, ideally B2B SaaS
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle and enthusiasm for guiding teams to prototype in code and ship with AI.

Benefits and Growth:

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Competitive global benefits

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Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:

$232,000—$290,000 USD

Equal Opportunity at Datadog:

Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.