Datadog · 3 weeks ago
Staff Product Designer, Visual Systems
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$195K/yr - $255K/yr
10+ years expDatadog is a global SaaS business on a mission to enable digital transformation and cloud migration. They are seeking a Staff Visual Systems Designer to lead the visual design evolution of their design system, DRUIDS, by defining patterns and visual excellence across multiple products while collaborating with various teams to ensure a cohesive design language.
AnalyticsCloud ComputingCloud Data ServicesCloud InfrastructureData ManagementDevOpsProductivity ToolsSaaS
Responsibilities
Lead exploratory and concept work that informs the next generation of DRUIDS
Set and evolve Datadog's visual design direction at the system level — defining new patterns, visual language, and interaction models
Drive cross-functional initiatives that modernize the design system's tooling, infrastructure, and AI-assisted workflows
Work closely with the Design Systems engineering team to ensure high-quality implementation and code quality
Partner with Brand and Product Design to align product visuals with Datadog's broader design language
Translate exploratory visual work into scalable system patterns, collaborating closely with design systems engineering
Influence and align stakeholders across design, product, and engineering through strong storytelling and visual rationale
Prototype, test, and iterate on new visual ideas before they become systemized
Help define the quality bar for visual design across the platform
Advocate for design excellence and systems thinking across the organization
Qualification
Required
You have experience driving a major re-brand or visual re-fresh of a product with a mature design system
You have experience driving stakeholder alignment and shaping design vision across multiple product teams
You have 10+ years of experience in product design with at least 3+ of those years focused on design systems or design infrastructure
Your portfolio includes a proven track record of excellent design craft (product and platform) as well as design system contribution or shipping system-level work (components, libraries, or scalable UX patterns)
You're fluent in Figma component architecture, design tokens, and how design intersects with front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, React, AI-first tooling)
You are an excellent visual and written communicator, able to clearly communicate your design work and the support for your design decisions
You have experience with advanced prototyping tools (e.g. Figma, Cursor, etc)
You give and receive feedback well, supporting and improving the work of your colleagues as well as your own
Benefits
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
Company
Datadog
Datadog is an observability and security platform that offers infrastructure, applications, software development, and monitoring services.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.02BKey Investors
ICONIQ GrowthIndex VenturesOpenView
2024-12-09Post Ipo Debt· $870M
2020-05-28Post Ipo Debt
2019-09-19IPO
Leadership Team
Olivier Pomel
Co-founder, CEO
Alexis Le-Quoc
Co-founder & CTO
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