Senior Director, Product Design

Datadog is seeking a seasoned design leader to accelerate the evolution of its core products and help us define what’s next. These products power how engineers visualize, optimize and troubleshoot complex, distributed systems at scale. In this role, you’ll lead a 40-person design team across North America and Europe, shaping how often the invisible world of infrastructure becomes understandable, navigable, actionable and deeply human. It’s an opportunity to craft the design vision for our customers to see, interpret, and act on live data—transforming dense technical signals into experiences that feel clear, intuitive, and empowering.

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:

• Grow, mentor, and lead a talented and diverse team of global design managers and product designers.
• Partner with cross-functional partners to establish roadmaps, metrics, and goals.
• Help the team to Design ahead and set the vision for the user experience to meet customer and business needs.
• Guide and accelerate your team, oversee multiple workstreams, and connect the dots between cross-org products for your team to deliver a cohesive customer experience.
• Be the champion for product excellence.
• You’ll report to the Head of Design and work with peer leaders to strengthen our processes, tools, and design organization.
  
  

Who You Are:

• 15 years experience in product design with 8 years experience managing managers.
• Strong experience and portfolio that showcases a track record of design leadership, end-to-end experience ownership, and design excellence.
• Strong customer advocacy with a penchant for data and business-informed design.
• Experience of building complex products.
• Experience of building B2B saas products is desirable but not required.
• Ability to dabble in the technical breadth and depth of modern software development.

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.