# Staff Product Designer, APM

**Company**: Datadog
**Location**: New York, New York
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $204,000-$255,000 USD
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We're looking for a Staff Product Designer to join the APM (Application Performance Monitoring) team at Datadog. This team focuses on helping engineers troubleshoot and optimize their applications. You'll learn the domain, proactively spot areas for improvement, and get stakeholder buy-in as needed. You'll own your design work end-to-end while shaping broader product direction.

**What You'll Do:**

- Become a design leader within APM by identifying opportunities and shaping the design strategy across multiple product areas and workflows.

- Partner with PMs and Engineers to ship intuitive experiences, balancing user needs with platform scalability and engineering constraints.

- Conduct and synthesize qualitative and quantitative research to identify pain points, validate solutions, and guide roadmap decisions.

- Communicate design rationale clearly and persuasively across design, engineering, product, and executive stakeholders.

- Mentor and support other designers by providing feedback, sharing frameworks and workflows, and helping raise the overall design quality bar.

- Prototype in code to rapidly explore ideas and validate concepts.

- Contribute to production code using AI-assisted workflows.

- Help the team adopt AI-enabled design workflows.

**Who You Are:**

- You have 10+ years of experience in digital product design.

- Your portfolio demonstrates a strong track record of designing and shipping complex technical products.

- You use AI-assisted workflows to prototype and rapidly iterate.

- You have a track record of connecting design decisions to measurable business outcomes.

- You have shipped code and are interested in evolving how design teams incorporate AI tools into their workflows.

- You are comfortable operating in ambiguous environments and influencing product direction through strong systems thinking and product judgment.

- You have a track record of telling compelling stories that build alignment, influence stakeholders, and articulate a clear product and design vision.

- You are deeply thoughtful about edge cases, scalability, information architecture, and designing for technical depth without sacrificing usability.

- You proactively lead initiatives from concept to execution, balancing priorities and navigating complex stakeholder environments.

- You have experience designing for developer platforms, observability tools, infrastructure products, or other highly technical domains.

- You give and receive feedback well, and proactively mentor other designers.

**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

- Inclusive company culture and Community Guilds

- Free, global mental health benefits

- Competitive global benefits

## Skills

### Required
- AI-assisted workflows
- digital product design
- design leadership
- qualitative and quantitative research
- communication
- mentorship
- prototyping
- production code

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