Datadog is looking for a Staff Product Designer to improve the Datadog Application Performance Monitoring (APM) product enablement experience, focusing on how users instrument and configure their setups to maximize the benefits of APM tools. This role aims to influence and drive the growth of the APM user base by designing end-to-end experiences for APM setup, new technology integration, and expanded monitoring coverage.
Requirements
- 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 are deeply fluent in modern design tools like Figma, and continuously exploring how to use AI to boost efficiency and prototyping speed.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Other
- 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.
- 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.
