Datadog
Senior Group Manager, Experience Design
New York, New York, USA · Senior
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About the role
- We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one.
- Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence.
- Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow the Experience Design group, managing two designers today and helping shape the team as its scope evolves
- Hire, coach, develop, and set clear expectations for designers while maintaining a high bar for design craft
- Design priority web experiences from journey mapping and research through interaction design, prototyping, and shipped pages
- Prototype with AI and working code, use Figma MCP and Code Connect to keep design and implementation aligned, and work directly in the CMS when appropriate
- Own and evolve the team's design process across discovery, critique, specification, handoff, and post-launch quality assurance
- Partner with Product Marketing, Growth, Web Engineering, and Web Content Engineering to shape priorities and deliver web experiences that support business goals
- Experienced across UX/UI, journey mapping, and web design, with a portfolio of shipped, high-traffic marketing or product marketing experiences and particular depth in web and product experience
- A people leader who remains actively involved in design work and is comfortable moving between team leadership and hands-on execution
- Experienced using AI to prototype, explore design directions, and reduce repetitive work, with a thoughtful perspective on where AI adds value to the design process
- Experienced hiring, coaching, and developing designers, including giving actionable feedback and supporting specialists with deep expertise in their disciplines
Requirements
- Expand your experience with AI-assisted prototyping, code-connected design workflows, and CMS-based delivery
Compensation
- $135,000 - $180,000 USD
Benefits
- Generous and competitive benefits package
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
- Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation.
Company info
- It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers.
- Comfortable using code as part of the design process, including prototyping, reading implementation details, working with Figma MCP and Code Connect, and building within a modern CMS
- 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.
- As Senior Group Manager of Experience Design on Datadog's Web Experience team, you will lead and grow the Experience Design group while remaining hands-on with the web experiences that matter most to our customers and business.
- At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table.
- Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale.
Equal opportunity
- Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
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- t opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics
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