About the Role
We’re looking for a Staff Visual Systems Designer to lead the visual design evolution of DRUIDS, Datadog’s design system. You will advance and mature the visual language of Datadog, defining patterns, design tooling, and visual excellence across multiple products. Your work will directly enable hundreds of designers and engineers to build cohesive, performant experiences at scale.
This role sits at the intersection of product design, brand, and systems. You’ll 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. It’s a future-facing role for a designer with strong visual taste, a point of view, and the ability to bring others along.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead exploratory and concept work that informs the next generation of DRUIDS.
- Set and evolve Datadog’s visual design direction at the system level — defining new patterns, visual language, and interaction models.
- Drive cross-functional initiatives that modernize the design system’s tooling, infrastructure, and AI-assisted workflows
- Work closely with the Design Systems engineering team to ensure high-quality implementation and code quality
- Partner with Brand and Product Design to align product visuals with Datadog’s broader design language.
- Translate exploratory visual work into scalable system patterns, collaborating closely with design systems engineering.
- Influence and align stakeholders across design, product, and engineering through strong storytelling and visual rationale.
- Prototype, test, and iterate on new visual ideas before they become systemized.
- Help define the quality bar for visual design across the platform.
- Advocate for design excellence and systems thinking across the organization.
Who You Are:
- You have experience driving a major re-brand or visual re-fresh of a product with a mature design system
- You have experience driving stakeholder alignment and shaping design vision across multiple product teams
- You have 10+ years of experience in product design with at least 3+ of those years focused on design systems or design infrastructure
- Your portfolio includes a proven track record of excellent design craft (product and platform) as well as design system contribution or shipping system-level work (components, libraries, or scalable UX patterns)
- You’re fluent in Figma component architecture, design tokens, and how design intersects with front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, React, 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, 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. 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
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
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.
