Senior Design Manager, Design Systems
Datadog
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This role pays more than 60% of similar roles. Most pay $176,081–$253,812 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $230k versus about $215k for comparable roles.
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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 64 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $192,000–$240,000 across 63 roles with salary data.
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The Senior Design Manager - AI Monitoring & Management leads a team of four designers to build products that help organizations trust production AI. This role involves driving end-to-end product experiences across Agent Observability, GPU Monitoring, and Agent Console surfaces. You will mentor designers, conduct 1:1s, and partner with leadership to shape strategy and roadmaps. Key responsibilities include prototyping and shipping directly in code, conducting design critiques, and ensuring high quality in interaction design and visual design. You must possess deep domain expertise in AI training workflows, evaluations, GPU infrastructure, and agent debugging. The role requires proficiency with AI-native tools like Claude Code and Cursor to manage complex, data-heavy products. You will solve technical problems regarding model performance, infrastructure costs, and system reliability in a rapidly evolving space.
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