Job description
The opportunity
We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to add to a team building a brand-new Experimentation product. Experimentation is a core part of our Suite of Analytics products aiming to empower product teams to make data-driven decisions by easily managing rigorous experiments at scale.
Product Managers, Data Scientists, Designers, and Engineers use this product to plan, execute, understand results, and learn from their experiments. The problem space is workflow-oriented, data-heavy, complex, and can be augmented with AI. Partnering with Product Management and Engineering, you will play a pivotal role in defining a large part of this experience from the ground up this year.
Additionally, since we aspire to elevate our design language and system with this new product, there’s a significant opportunity to bring your strong visual taste and push the boundaries here.
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 you’ll do
- Lead end-to-end product design for part of the Experimentation product, including forming goals, user research, interaction design, visual design, prototyping, delivering documentation to Engineering, and QA
- Actively gather information and feedback from other Datadog products to define overlapping workflows that best fit users’ mental model
- Partner with Product and Engineering to explore and align on problems to solve and the best solution to those problems, breaking down milestones and balance quality and speed.
- Collaborate with other Designers to enhance the visual and interaction design across the product in a scalable way. Contribute to our design system.
- Communicate and influence leadership on important product and design decisions, participate in OKR planning
- Champion a collaborative, low-ego, impactful design culture
Who You Are:
- You have 5+ years of experience in B2B, digital product design, ideally in a data-heavy, complex domain
- You have a desire to deeply understand the users and domain you design for. You fight for the user in difficult discussions.
- Your portfolio shows strong experience owning end-to-end design that simplifies complexity and delivers the best values for customers elegantly, mostly web experiences. You have excellent visual design skills
- You’re able to find your path through complex, ambiguous problems with curiosity and analytical mindset. You’re independent and thrive in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.
- You are an excellent visual and written communicator who is able to clearly communicate your design decisions
- You give and receive feedback well, supporting and improving the work of your colleagues as well as your own
Bonus Points:
- Familiarity in complex, workflow and data-heavy domains, such as collaboration, finance, analytics, observability, or technical tools
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That’s okay. If you’re 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
Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate’s skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:
$157,000—$205,000 USD
About Datadog:
Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
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