Senior Interaction Designer, Design Lab

We’re looking for a Senior Interaction Designer, Design Lab to innovate and implement how motion and AI-first interaction functions across Datadog’s products and contribute to the visual design evolution of Datadog’s design system. In this role you’ll bring expertise in motion design to reinforce clarity, express system intelligence, and elevate craft throughout the product. 

Design Lab operates at the intersection of engineering and design, focused on advancing craft and building shared design capabilities that enable exceptional experiences at scale.  You’ll partner closely with design systems 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 an exciting role for a creative product builder who embraces new technologies to explore and shape the future of how we design at scale. In this role, you’re not limited to one medium, you will use pixels, code, and AI to advance the design language of Datadog, contribute to the design system, define patterns, evolve design tooling, and influence excellence across multiple products. This role is well suited for someone excited about empowering teams through systems and raising the bar for motion design and visual craft across the product ecosystem. 

Your work will impact every part of our ecosystem, including driving the future of user experience with AI tools and prototyping. 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. Our team thrives on strong cross-functional relationships, thoughtful critique, and high standards. 

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:

• Evolve Datadog’s visual design direction at the system level, defining new motion experience patterns and interaction models

• Design and code the motion system for the design system, including motion tokens, component behaviors, transitions, and icon illustrations

• Prototype and iterate on new visual ideas with AI-assisted workflows

• Partner with Brand and Product Design to align product visuals with Datadog’s broader design language

• Work closely with the Design Systems engineering team to ensure high-quality implementation and code quality

Who You Are:

• You are a designer who embraces new technologies, including code and AI

• You have 7+ years of experience in product design with at least 1+ of those years focused on or working closely with design systems

• Your portfolio includes a proven track record of excellent design craft (product and platform) and interaction design

• You’re fluent in how design intersects with front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, React, SVG, 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, Claude, 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.

#LI-Hybrid

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:

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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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