Product Designer II - Mobile App

The opportunity

As the Product Designer II for Datadog’s iOS and Android Mobile Apps, you will own the end-to-end user experience for engineers and on-call responders who monitor and act on their system’s performance while on the go. You’ll take ownership of key mobile experiences and contribute to building a cohesive, high-quality native app that makes complex observability workflows feel effortless in a mobile context.

You’ll work across the entire product development process—from research and concepting to execution and Q/A—alongside a dedicated mobile team that includes Product and Engineering. You’ll explore what makes mobile usage distinct for our users, apply mobile-first thinking to core observability workflows, and expand the Datadog Mobile design system to grow our native iOS and Android component library.

This role sits within our Service Management design team, which supports engineers who rely on Datadog during high-stakes incidents. You’ll collaborate with other product designers in the Service Management and Datadog design team to turn desktop experiences into native mobile features. Your work will empower users to investigate issues, collaborate across teams, and stay informed—even when they’re away from their desks.

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.

What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and designers to understand how our customers use Datadog and what they need to succeed.
• Act as an end-to-end product designer who can sketch, prototype, test, and see your product through to production.
• Bring your designs to life with intuitive interaction design leveraging your prototyping skills in Figma.
• Utilize research practices, like usability testing, 1-1 interviews, surveys, and product analytics to understand how users are using the mobile apps and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Communicate both your design work and the support for your design decisions across the company.
• Work with the rest of the product design team to adapt patterns and standards from our web application to mobile.
• Work closely with engineering teams to understand how your designs will be built and Q/A them before we ship.

Who You Are:

• You have 4+ years of experience in mobile product design.
• Your portfolio includes a proven track record of shipping. interaction design work for native mobile applications.
• You are fluent in best practices for both iOS and Android.
• You have a strong visual and written communicator who is able to clearly communicate your design work and justify your design decisions.
• You have experience with advanced modern-day UX/UI tools (e.g. Figma).
• You understand systems thinking and component-based design patterns.
• You give and receive feedback well, supporting and improving the work of your colleagues as well as your own.
• You want to work in a rapidly changing, high-growth startup environment

Bonus Points:

• You understand cloud infrastructure and have experience with platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• You have worked on technical products and data visualizations.
• You have built SaaS, enterprise software, or developer tools.
• You have experience with Figma and Framer.
• You can write Swift and/or Kotlin.

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

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

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.