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We’re looking for a Product Designer with technical aptitude and a passion for solving complex problems. Specifically, you’ll help design the a that nearly every Datadog customer uses - Dashboards that proactively monitor the health of applications, and enable troubleshooting when something goes wrong.
The ideal candidate will collaborate closely with teams across Datadog to expand Dashboards functionality and tailor our platform capabilities to different personas and use cases. You’ll engage with customers to understand their needs and pain points, conduct in-depth research on major and emerging dashboarding tools, and collaborate closely with engineers and product managers alongside designers on your team. Your ability to communicate and translate technical concepts into intuitive and scalable designs will be key to your success in this role.
What You'll Do:
- Work with product managers, engineers, and researchers to understand how our customers use Datadog and what they need to succeed
- With your peers, discover new strategic opportunities that improve dashboard and alerting experiences across Datadog.
- See your design work through from start to finish: turn insights from user research into ideas, sketch and prototype to bring them to life, and ship products and features that make Datadog better
- Develop a relationship with your engineering team to understand how your designs will be built and how you can provide quality assurance.
- Be the expert in your product area, mentoring designers on the team to do their best work
- Communicate and build consensus around your design decisions and the rationale behind them across the company
Who You Are:
- You have 3+ years of experience in digital product design
- Your portfolio includes a proven track record of shipping interaction design work in enterprise web applications
- You are a strong visual and written communicator, able to clearly communicate your design work and justify for your design decisions
- You enjoy working on complex technical design problems
- You enjoy systems thinking and using component-based design patterns.
- You have experience with advanced modern-day UX/UI tools (e.g. Figma).
- You give and receive feedback well, supporting and improving the work of your colleagues as well as your own.
Bonus Points:
- Familiarity designing for developer tools, dashboard tools, reporting tools, or other highly complex problem spaces.
- You have experience in a SaaS or B2B startup and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
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.
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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