Senior Product Designer Motion and Design Systems

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 18 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Were looking for a Senior Product Designer Motion and Design Systems to design and implement how motion functions across Datadogs suite of products and contribute to the visual design evolution of DRUIDS Datadogs design system. You will advance and mature the interaction design language of Datadog contribute to the design system defining patterns design tooling and drive excellence across multiple products. Your work will impact every part of our ecosystem including driving the future of user experience with AI tools and prototyping.

This role sits at the intersection of design and engineering. 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:

Evolve Datadogs visual design direction at the system level defining new motion experience patterns and interaction models
Design and code the motion system for the design system including motion tokens component behaviors transitions and icon illustrations
Prototype and iterate on new visual ideas with AI-assisted workflows
Partner with Brand and Product Design to align product visuals with Datadogs broader design language
Work closely with the Design Systems engineering team to ensure high-quality implementation and code quality

Who You Are:

You have 7 years of experience in product design with at least 2 of those years focused on design systems
Your portfolio includes a proven track record of excellent design craft (product and platform) and interaction design
Youre fluent in how design intersects with front-end technologies (HTML CSS React SVG 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 Claude 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.

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Required Experience:

Senior IC

Were looking for a Senior Product Designer Motion and Design Systems to design and implement how motion functions across Datadogs suite of products and contribute to the visual design evolution of DRUIDS Datadogs design system. You will advance and mature the interaction design language of Datadog c...