Senior Staff Visual Designer, Design Lab

Datadog is building a small, high-leverage Design Lab team to define the evolution of its product's visual language. As a Senior Staff Visual Designer, you will author that evolution, defining the visual direction across product surfaces as Datadog expands into AI-driven experiences and more complex surfaces.

• Define and evolve Datadog's visual language across product surfaces.
• Lead exploratory and concept work, creating distinct visual directions.
• Synthesize product context, research, and stakeholder input into clear visual principles.
• Establish the quality bar for typography, color, composition, iconography, imagery, motion, and visual expression.
• Create high-fidelity product exemplars and prototypes.
• Partner with Brand, Product Design, Motion, and Design Systems teams.
• Influence executives and senior stakeholders through visual storytelling.
• Guide and critique the work of other designers.

• 12+ years of experience in visual, brand, graphic, and/or product design.
• Strong taste and ability to defend a point of view.
• Ability to develop multiple directions and synthesize the strongest ideas.
• Top-shelf craft and ability to create compelling artifacts.
• Understanding of how typography, color, composition, imagery, iconography, and motion work together.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and defining direction.
• Portfolio demonstrates exceptional visual craft and authorship.

Datadog offers new hire stock equity (RSUs), employee stock purchase plan, continuous professional development, product training, career pathing, mentor and buddy program, inclusive culture, mental health benefits, and competitive global benefits. Specific benefits include healthcare, dental, parental planning, mental health benefits, 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and discounted employee stock purchase plan.

Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing unified visibility across the technology stack. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders.