Visual Designer, Contract
Visual Designer, Contract
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Job Description
Datadogs new suite of products empowers teams to code ship and quickly gather user insightsall within minutes. Built to be intuitive and accessible these tools make it easy for users to analyze data visualize flows and monitor experiences helping them make smarter data-driven decisions faster.
Were looking for a Visual Designer to contribute to the shaping of new visual directions at Datadog. Youll have the opportunity to define how the product looks and feels while collaborating closely with cross-functional partners to bring that vision to life. This role will focus on pushing the visual craft polish and consistency of our product UI to the next level ensuring it resonates with our audience and stands out in the market.
Youll be embedded in a cross-functional team of product designers working closely with PMs and craft a product experience thats polished cohesive and distinctive.
What Youll Do:
- Advance the visual craft while staying grounded in the established UX framework.
- Polish and refine existing UI components to elevate clarity visual cohesion and consistency across the product
- Design high-quality visual artifacts including illustrations icons visual systems and states for micro-interactions
- Collaborate with product designers to align visual updates with UX goals
- Work outside the boundaries of Datadogs current design system while contributing new visual patterns and refinements where appropriate
- Ensure visuals are accessible scalable and production-ready
- Partner with engineering to support implementation and maintain visual quality
- Align with the broader design org on visual standards and contribute to best practices for visual design at Datadog
Who You Are:
- You have 5 years of professional experience as a visual or UI designer
- You bring exceptional visual craft with strong attention to detail layout color typography and spacing
- Youve designed high-quality UI visuals for complex products
- Youre comfortable designing icons illustrations and motion/micro-interaction states
- Youve worked with or contributed to design systems and understand how to maintain visual consistency at scale
- You collaborate well across disciplines and communicate visual direction clearly
- You care about accessibility visual hierarchy and delivering polished user-centered interfaces
- Youre self-directed proactive and able to work independently while also collaborating deeply with others
Nice to Have:
- Experience with visual design for analytics monitoring or data platforms
- Experience in B2B environments where clarity and usability are key priorities
- Experience building and evolving design systems ensuring scalability and consistency across components and workflows
The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role is:
$156000$208000 USD
Employment Type
Contract
