Staff Product Designer, APM

New York, New York, USA
Product Design
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About the Role

At Datadog in the Technology space, Observe, Secure, and Optimize Modern Cloud Infrastructure at Scale.

<p>We’re looking for a <strong>Staff Product Designer</strong> to join the APM (Application Performance Monitoring) team. This team is focused on helping engineers agentically troubleshoot and optimize their applications. </p>

<p>You'll learn the domain and proactively spot areas for improvement, getting stakeholder buy-in as needed. You'll own your design work end-to-end while helping shape broader product direction. You'll also hold a high bar for quality across the team and help other designers build support for their decisions.</p>

<p><em>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.</em></p>

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<p><strong>What You’ll Do:</strong></p>

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<li>Become a design leader within APM by proactively identifying opportunities and shaping the design strategy across multiple product areas and workflows.</li>

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<li>Partner closely with PMs and Engineers to ship intuitive experiences, balancing user needs with platform scalability and engineering constraints.</li>

<li>Conduct and synthesize qualitative and quantitative research to identify pain points, validate solutions, and guide roadmap decisions.</li>

<li>Communicate design rationale clearly and persuasively across design, engineering, product, and executive stakeholders.</li>

<li>Mentor and support other designers by providing feedback, sharing frameworks and workflows, and helping raise the overall design quality bar across the organization.</li>

<li>Prototype in code to rapidly explore ideas and validate concepts.</li>

<li>Contribute to production code using AI-assisted workflows to ensu

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Datadog is a leading Cloud company that provides monitoring and analytics solutions. The company operates a global presence with headquarters in New York serving as the primary operational base for key executive leadership and corporate functions including engineering, product, sales, and executive leadership. Datadog maintains additional offices across the Americas in Boston, Denver, San Francisco, and throughout the USA, Canada, Mexico, and South America.

Please review the specific job listing or contact Datadog's recruiting team for details on remote or hybrid work options for this role.

Salary information may vary by role and location. Please check the specific job listing or discuss compensation during the interview process.

Datadog is an established organization in its industry. The company focuses on maintaining a supportive workplace culture for all employees.

Key benefit categories include: Financial Benefits, Health & Wellness, Work-Life Balance, Community & Growth. You can view more details on their CertCheck profile.

The day-to-day environment is guided by core values such as Collaborative Problem-Solving and Ownership Mentality and Continuous Learning Culture.

The company has committed to inclusive practices including: Empower Ownership and Accountability and Champion Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging.

Datadog has a supportive and collaborative culture, recognized as a loved place to work by its team members.

Datadog currently has 433 open positions. They are hiring across departments like Finance, Dev Eng, Engineering Interns. You can view all current openings at certcheck.mostlovedworkplace.com/companies/datadog/jobs.

The interview process typically involves an initial recruiter screen followed by team interviews. Please contact Datadog's recruiting team for specific details on this role's process.

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