Staff Product Designer, Visual Systems

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 7 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Were looking for a Staff Visual Systems Designer to lead the visual design evolution of DRUIDS Datadogs design system. You will advance and mature the visual language of Datadog defining patterns design tooling and visual excellence across multiple products. Your work will directly enable hundreds of designers and engineers to build cohesive performant experiences at scale.

This role sits at the intersection of product design brand and systems. Youll partner closely with design systems engineers brand and product teams to push the visual language forward while ensuring it scales across one of the most complex SaaS platforms in the industry. This is not a maintenance or governance role. Its a future-facing role for a designer with strong visual taste a point of view and the ability to bring others along.

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 Youll Do:

Lead exploratory and concept work that informs the next generation of DRUIDS.
Set and evolve Datadogs visual design direction at the system level defining new patterns visual language and interaction models.
Drive cross-functional initiatives that modernize the design systems tooling infrastructure and AI-assisted workflows
Work closely with the Design Systems engineering team to ensure high-quality implementation and code quality
Partner with Brand and Product Design to align product visuals with Datadogs broader design language.
Translate exploratory visual work into scalable system patterns collaborating closely with design systems engineering.
Influence and align stakeholders across design product and engineering through strong storytelling and visual rationale.
Prototype test and iterate on new visual ideas before they become systemized.
Help define the quality bar for visual design across the platform.
Advocate for design excellence and systems thinking across the organization.

Who You Are:

You have experience driving a major re-brand or visual re-fresh of a product with a mature design system
You have experience driving stakeholder alignment and shaping design vision across multiple product teams
You have 10 years of experience in product design with at least 3 of those years focused on design systems or design infrastructure
Your portfolio includes a proven track record of excellent design craft (product and platform) as well as design system contribution or shipping system-level work (components libraries or scalable UX patterns)
Youre fluent in Figma component architecture design tokens and how design intersects with front-end technologies (HTML CSS React AI-first tooling).
You are an excellent visual and written communicator able to clearly communicate your design work and the support for your design decisions
You have experience with advanced prototyping tools (e.g. Figma Cursor etc)
You give and receive feedback well supporting and improving the work of your colleagues as well as your own

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. Thats okay. If youre 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.

Required Experience:

Staff IC