Staff Visual Designer, Design Lab

About the role

The Design Lab team at Datadog is expanding to define the next phase of our product’s visual language. This role will play a pivotal role in shaping how millions of interactions feel across our web, mobile, and AI-driven surfaces.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve Datadog’s visual language across product surfaces.
• Establish the visual quality bar for the platform.
• Lead exploratory and concept work that pushes our system forward.
• Translate bold visual ideas into scalable patterns that can live inside a design system.
• Partner deeply with Brand, Product Design, and Design Systems to unify expression across product and marketing.
• Influence executive stakeholders through clear, compelling visual storytelling.
• Prototype, test, and refine new patterns before they become systemized.
• Help shape how visual direction is integrated into our design process.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in visual and/or product design.
• Experience leading a meaningful visual evolution or rebrand within a mature product ecosystem.
• Strong taste and comfort with defending a point of view.
• Ability to translate brand into scalable product systems.
• System-thinking mindset, but driven by craft.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and defining direction where none exists.
• Motivated to influence across design, engineering, and executive partners.
• A portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual craft and product thinking.

Qualifications

• Experience working in a hybrid workplace environment.
• Understanding of design systems and their implementation.
• Knowledge of user interface design principles and practices.
• Experience with design tools such as Sketch, Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, etc.
• Experience with design systems and pattern libraries.
• Experience with design research and user testing.

Skills

• Strong visual design skills.
• Experience with design systems and pattern libraries.
• Ability to communicate design vision clearly and effectively.
• Experience with design research and user testing.
• Experience with design tools such as Sketch, Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, etc.

Benefits

At Datadog, we offer:

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing.
• An intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking.
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions.
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+.
• A competitive global benefits package.
• A 401(k) plan and match.
• Paid time off.
• Fitness reimbursements.
• A discounted employee stock purchase plan.

Pay

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: $232,000—$290,000 USD.

Schedule

We are a hybrid workplace, offering flexibility to our team members.