Senior Staff Visual Designer, Design Lab
DatadogNew York, New York, United States · Posted 4 months agoDescription
Datadog is entering a new chapter in how our product looks, feels and operates. We're building a small, high-leverage Design Lab team to define that evolution, and we're looking for a Senior Staff Visual Designer to author it.
Our design system powers everything we ship. Now we're ready to evolve it. As Datadog expands into AI-driven experiences and more complex product surfaces, the visual language needs to grow with it. This is the role that decides what that language is — someone with taste, judgment, and the confidence to set a direction and defend it.
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
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Define and evolve Datadog’s visual language across product surfaces.
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Lead exploratory and concept work, creating a range of distinct visual directions for the next generation of the product.
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Synthesize product context, research, references, and stakeholder input into clear visual principles and a coherent point of view.
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Establish the quality bar for typography, color, composition, iconography, imagery, motion, and visual expression across the platform.
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Create high-fidelity product exemplars and prototypes that make an emerging direction tangible.
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Partner deeply with Brand, Product Design, Motion, and Design Systems to test and refine the direction across different surfaces.
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Influence executives and senior stakeholders through clear, persuasive visual storytelling.
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Guide and critique the work of other designers, helping the visual direction remain coherent as it evolves.
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Help shape how visual exploration, critique, and craft are integrated into Datadog’s design process.
You will report directly to the Design Director and work as part of a small, focused team defining the future state before it scales across hundreds of designers and engineers.
Who You Are
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You have 12+ years of experience in visual, brand, graphic and/or product design.
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You have strong taste and are comfortable defending a point of view on judgment alone.
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You can develop several different directions, synthesize the strongest ideas, and explain why one should move forward.
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Your craft is top-shelf and know how to create the thing in your head.
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You understand how typography, color, composition, imagery, iconography, and motion work together to create a coherent visual language.
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You can move a room, executives included, with a story and a compelling artifact.
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You're comfortable operating in ambiguity and defining direction where none exists.
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Your portfolio demonstrates exceptional visual craft and authorship, not just applied systems work.
Brand and agency backgrounds are welcome here. You do not need to come from a traditional product-design path, but you should understand how visual ideas behave when they enter digital products.
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.
Why This Role Matters
DRUIDS powers every Datadog experience. The decisions made in this role will shape how millions of interactions feel across web, mobile, and emerging AI-driven surfaces. This is an opportunity to define visual direction inside a complex, engineering-forward platform and raise the craft bar across the organization.
About Datadog
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:
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New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
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Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
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Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
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An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
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Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions
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Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
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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.
#LI-Hybrid
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.
About Datadog:
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
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.
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