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This team is focused on helping engineers agentically troubleshoot and optimize their applications. \nYou'll learn the domain and proactively spot areas for improvement, getting stakeholder buy-in as needed. You'll own your design work end-to-end while helping shape broader product direction. You'll also hold a high bar for quality across the team and help other designers build support for their decisions.\nAt Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.\nWhat You’ll Do:\nBecome a design leader within APM by proactively identifying opportunities and shaping the design strategy across multiple product areas and workflows.\nPartner closely with PMs and Engineers to ship intuitive experiences, balancing user needs with platform scalability and engineering constraints.\nConduct and synthesize qualitative and quantitative research to identify pain points, validate solutions, and guide roadmap decisions.\nCommunicate design rationale clearly and persuasively across design, engineering, product, and executive stakeholders.\nMentor and support other designers by providing feedback, sharing frameworks and workflows, and helping raise the overall design quality bar across the organization.\nPrototype in code to rapidly explore ideas and validate concepts.\nContribute to production code using AI-assisted workflows to ensure execution matches design intent.\nHelp the team adopt AI-enabled design workflows.\nWho You Are:\nYou have 10+ years of experience in digital product design.\nYour portfolio demonstrates a strong track record of designing and shipping complex technical products.\nYou use AI-assisted workflows to prototype and rapidly iterate.\nYou have a track record of connecting design decisions to measurable business outcomes --not just shipping features, but showing how your work moved the business forward.\nYou have shipped code and are interested in evolving how design teams incorporate AI tools into their workflows.\nYou are comfortable operating in ambiguous environments and influencing product direction through strong systems thinking and product judgment.\nYou have a track record of telling compelling stories that build alignment, influence stakeholders, and articulate a clear product and design vision.\nYou are deeply thoughtful about edge cases, scalability, information architecture, and designing for technical depth without sacrificing usability.\nYou proactively lead initiatives from concept to execution, balancing priorities and navigating complex stakeholder environments.\nYou have experience designing for developer platforms, observability tools, infrastructure products, or other highly technical domains.\nYou give and receive feedback well, and proactively mentor other designers to elevate the quality of the broader team.\nDatadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.\nBenefits and Growth: \nNew hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)\nContinuous professional development, product training, and career pathing\nIntradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking\nAn inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)\nAccess to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions\nFree, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+\nCompetitive global benefits\nBenefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.\nDatadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.\nThe reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:\n$204,000—$255,000 USD\nAbout Datadog: \nDatadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.\nEqual Opportunity at Datadog:\nDatadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference. \nDatadog endeavors to make our Careers Page accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please complete this form. This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications. \nPrivacy and AI Guidelines:\nAny information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice. 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