Director, Product Design

Datadog

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Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
New York, NY
Salary
$232,000–$290,000 / yr
Posted
5 days ago
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Above market

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This role $261k
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This role pays more than 67% of similar roles. Most pay $210,224–$269,150 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $261k versus about $240k for comparable roles.

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About Datadog

Datadog, Inc. is an American company that provides an observability service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services, through a SaaS-based data analytics platform.

Datadog currently has 61 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $192,000–$240,000 across 61 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Director, Product Design

The Director, Product Design will lead the design direction for a suite of products within the AI-powered observability and security platform. In this leadership role, you will define a cohesive product vision, establish roadmaps, and set metrics while building and developing a talented, diverse, global design team. You will be responsible for championing product excellence, evolving how the team designs and builds with AI, and strengthening organizational processes and tools. Key responsibilities include guiding teams to prototype in code and ensuring design decisions are grounded in data and business context. The role requires expertise in B2B SaaS, the software development lifecycle, and end-to-end ownership. You will solve complex problems for engineering and security teams who need to see and act on data across systems at scale.

What you'll do

  • Define a cohesive product vision and establish roadmaps, metrics, and goals with cross-functional peers.
  • Build, develop, and lead a talented, diverse, and global design team.
  • Evolve the team's design and production workflows to incorporate AI technologies.
  • Partner with design peers to strengthen organizational processes, tools, and capabilities.
  • Champion product excellence and empower the team to deliver high-quality results.
  • Guide teams to prototype in code and ship products using AI.
  • Ensure design decisions are grounded in data, business context, and customer advocacy.

What we're looking for

  • 12+ years of experience in product design.
  • 5+ years of experience managing managers.
  • A portfolio demonstrating design leadership, craft, end-to-end ownership, and product excellence.
  • Experience building complex products, ideally B2B SaaS.
  • Strong customer advocacy with design decisions grounded in data and business context.
  • Understanding of the software development lifecycle.
  • Enthusiasm for guiding teams to prototype in code and ship with AI.

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