Staff Product Designer, APM

Datadog

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Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
New York, NY
Salary
$204,000–$255,000 / yr
Posted
141 days ago
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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role pays more than 68% of similar roles. Most pay $178,937–$243,500 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $230k versus about $211k 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 73 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $192,000–$240,000 across 71 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Product Designer, APM

The Staff Product Designer joins the APM team to help engineers agentically troubleshoot and optimize applications. In this role, you will lead the design strategy across multiple product areas, owning work end-to-end while mentoring other designers to elevate the overall quality bar. You will partner with product managers and engineers to ship intuitive experiences, conducting qualitative and quantitative research to validate solutions and guide roadmap decisions. Key responsibilities include prototyping in code, contributing to production code using AI-assisted workflows, and helping the team adopt AI-enabled design processes. You must demonstrate expertise in designing for developer platforms, observability tools, and infrastructure products. The role requires strong systems thinking to navigate complex technical domains, information architecture, and scalability while connecting design decisions to measurable business outcomes.

What you'll do

  • Shape the design strategy and identify opportunities across multiple product areas and workflows.
  • Partner with PMs and Engineers to ship intuitive experiences that balance user needs with technical constraints.
  • Conduct and synthesize qualitative and quantitative research to validate solutions and guide roadmap decisions.
  • Communicate design rationale clearly to engineering, product, and executive stakeholders.
  • Mentor other designers by providing feedback and sharing frameworks to raise the overall quality bar.
  • Prototype in code to rapidly explore ideas and validate concepts.
  • Contribute to production code using AI-assisted workflows to ensure execution matches design intent.
  • Help the team adopt and integrate AI-enabled design workflows.

What we're looking for

  • You have 10+ years of experience in digital product design.
  • Your portfolio demonstrates a strong track record of designing and shipping complex technical products.
  • You have experience designing for developer platforms, observability tools, infrastructure products, or other highly technical domains.
  • You use AI-assisted workflows to prototype and rapidly iterate.
  • You have shipped code and are interested in evolving how design teams incorporate AI tools into their workflows.
  • You have a track record of connecting design decisions to measurable business outcomes.
  • You have a track record of telling compelling stories that build alignment and influence stakeholders.
  • You have experience mentoring other designers to elevate the quality of the broader team.

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