Staff Product Designer, Modern Compute

Datadog

Confirmed live 2 days ago High trust
Hybrid

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

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $230k
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This role pays more than 66% of similar roles. Most pay $182,093–$246,950 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $230k versus about $215k 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 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, Modern Compute

As a Staff Product Designer, Modern Compute, you will join the team to lead end-to-end product design for infrastructure products, with an initial focus on Containers Autoscaling. You will define product direction from early framing through delivery, creating trustworthy experiences for engineers making high-stakes decisions regarding reliability, performance, and cost. Your daily work involves simplifying complex technical concepts into manageable workflows while maintaining the detail required by expert users. You will partner with product and engineering leaders to build reusable patterns and mentor other designers. The role requires exceptional interaction and visual design craft for data-heavy experiences. Key skills include designing for infrastructure, observability, and cloud tools involving Kubernetes, containers, GitOps, and YAML. Additionally, you will build realistic prototypes in code using coding agents to solve complex problems within the modern compute domain.

What you'll do

  • Lead end-to-end product design for the Modern Compute and Autoscaling products.
  • Define product direction from early problem framing through detailed design and delivery.
  • Simplify complex technical systems into clear, trustworthy experiences for expert users.
  • Create high-quality interaction and visual designs for data-heavy workflows and edge cases.
  • Develop reusable design patterns to ensure consistency across the broader Datadog platform.
  • Mentor other designers through peer reviews, feedback, and hands-on partnership.
  • Build realistic prototypes in code using coding agents and AI tools.

What we're looking for

  • You must have 10+ years of experience designing complex web-based products.
  • Experience operating at a Staff level or in a role with comparable scope is required.
  • You must possess exceptional interaction and visual design craft for dense, technical, or data-heavy experiences.
  • You must be able to lead ambiguous product work where the direction is not yet defined.
  • You must be able to simplify complex systems for expert users without removing necessary detail.
  • You must be able to communicate complex ideas clearly to stakeholders across design, product, engineering, and leadership.
  • You must be able to create reusable patterns and systems that work across multiple products and teams.
  • You must be able to design and build code-based prototypes using AI and coding agents.

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