Staff Product Designer - APM Enablement

We’re looking for a Staff Product Designer with a passion for building technical tools. You’ll be working on the Datadog Application Performance Monitoring (APM) product enablement experience, designing experiences for users to instrument and maintain their set-up and configurations to make the most out of APM tools. As one of the three pillars of observability, APM is one of the most highly-used products in the Datadog app and central to many key workflows.

As a Staff Designer within the APM Enablement team, you’ll work on end-to-end experiences for setting up APM, integrating new technologies into the product and expanding monitoring coverage for new and existing customers. You will directly influence and impact the future growth of the APM user base.

This role involves close collaboration with product and engineering leaders to ensure alignment and focus driving towards the ideal user experience for customers. We’re looking for someone who enjoys solving complex systems problems, designing for technical depth, highly thoughtful and proactive about understanding and designing for edge cases and guiding overall design strategy. 

At 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.

What You’ll Do:

• Become a leader in APM - proactively identifying areas of opportunity and driving the design strategy of one or more product areas.
• Work effectively with PM and Engineering teams to iterate and deliver new product experiences. Accounting for scalability across multiple use cases and design consistency across the platform.
• Bridge the gap between technical requirements and user needs, advocating for the user to influence product decisions.
• See your design work through from start to finish: conduct research, turn insights and requirements into compelling ideas, sketch and prototype to bring them to life, and ship products and features that make Datadog better.
• Communicate your design decisions effectively, build momentum and encourage focus on solving the right problems.
• Work closely with senior and executive stakeholders to keep them informed and bought into the design strategy.
• Share tools, frameworks, and patterns that improve team efficiency and scale high-quality work.
• Push the boundaries of what great product design looks like for developer-centric workflows in a fast-moving product ecosystem.

Who You Are:

• You have 10+ years of experience in digital product design
• Your portfolio includes a proven track record of designing and shipping complex 0-1 web based products
• You have demonstrated experience conducting user research and influencing product strategy
• You have a track record of telling compelling stories to advocate for users, build alignment, and articulate design vision.
• Experience using qualitative and quantitative methods to gather user information and translating insights into product requirements alongside PM
• You can be proactive and lead your work from start to finish, balancing priorities and managing stakeholders
• You give and receive feedback well, supporting and improving the work of your colleagues as well as your own
• You proactively mentor and guide other designers, raising the quality bar for the team.
• You are deeply fluent in modern design tools like Figma, and continuously exploring how to use AI to boost efficiency and prototyping speed.

Datadog 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.

Benefits and Growth: 

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Competitive global benefits

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.