Staff Product Designer

Datadog

Confirmed live 2 days ago High trust
Hybrid

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$204,000–$255,000 / yr
Posted
91 days ago
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Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $208k
This role $230k
$155k most similar roles pay here $266k

This role pays more than 72% of similar roles. Most pay $177,050–$238,450 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $230k versus about $208k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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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 266 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $161,000–$205,000 across 138 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Product Designer

Staff Product Designer, APM joins the Application Performance Monitoring team to help engineers agentically troubleshoot and optimize their applications. This role involves identifying opportunities, shaping design strategy across multiple product areas, and owning work end-to-end while mentoring other designers to elevate quality standards. The designer will partner with product managers and engineers to build intuitive experiences, conduct qualitative and quantitative research, and communicate design rationale to stakeholders. Key responsibilities include prototyping in code, contributing to production code using AI-assisted workflows, and integrating AI-enabled tools into the team's process. The ideal candidate possesses over ten years of experience designing complex technical products for developer platforms or observability tools. They must demonstrate expertise in systems thinking, information architecture, and navigating ambiguous environments while solving problems related to infrastructure and high-technical depth without sacrificing usability.

What you'll do

  • Define the design strategy and identify opportunities across multiple product areas and workflows.
  • Partner with PMs and engineers to build 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 persuasively to stakeholders across engineering, product, and executive teams.
  • Mentor other designers by providing feedback and establishing high standards for quality and workflow.
  • Prototype in code to rapidly explore ideas and validate concepts.
  • Contribute to production code using AI-assisted workflows to ensure execution matches design intent.
  • Lead the adoption of AI-enabled tools and workflows within the design team.

What we're looking for

  • You must have 10+ years of experience in digital product design.
  • Your portfolio must demonstrate a track record of designing and shipping complex technical products.
  • You must have experience designing for developer platforms, observability tools, infrastructure products, or other highly technical domains.
  • You must be able to prototype in code and use AI-assisted workflows to rapidly iterate.
  • You should have a track record of connecting design decisions to measurable business outcomes.
  • You must be able to communicate design rationale clearly to influence stakeholders and build alignment.
  • You must be able to mentor other designers and provide feedback to improve team quality.
  • You must be comfortable operating in ambiguous environments using systems thinking and product judgment.

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