Senior Product Designer - Graphing Experience

At Datadog, we’re on a mission to build the best monitoring platform in the world. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, and application tracing for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.

The team

The Product Design team works on embedded cross-functional teams, collaborating closely with PMs and engineers on major product areas. You will be embedded with the Graphing Experience team, which owns the UI for customers to create their own Dashboards, Notebooks, and other graphs across the Datadog platform.

We’re looking for a product designer with a passion for designing dynamic workflows and untangling technical problems. This team builds the experiences that every Datadog user will interact with: real-time dashboards, data-driven notebooks, and the design patterns that scale across our other products. 

The opportunity

As a part of the Graphing Experience team, you'll work on some of our most technical design problems. You’ll act as a leader within the product design team, collaborating with other designers to make their product’s graphing experiences better.

Previous projects include:

• Identifying and designing features to help customers configure their graphs
• Collaborating with designers and product teams across the company to improve querying UX
• Designing the experience of joining and previewing multiple datasets for a single visualization
• Designing the experience of automatically surfacing insights about a visualization
• Developing the broader UI and UX vision that these features are a part of

This is a core part of the product experience, and your design work will address the diverse . 

We are expanding globally, designing and building multiple new products, and leveraging DesignOps to speed up and scale our efforts. You’ll be involved in every step of the process—defining product, collaborating with PMs and engineering leads, and researching, prototyping and scaling design with new systems.

You will:

• Prototype rich interactions and microinteractions to query data and configure visualizations, partnering with engineers when necessary
• Work with customer success engineers and product managers to understand how our customers use Datadog and what they need to succeed
• 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
• Be the expert in your product area, mentoring designers on the team to do their best work
• Communicate both your design work and the support for your design decisions across the company
• Develop a relationship with your engineering team to understand how your designs will be built and how you can provide quality assurance.

Requirements

• You have 5+ years of experience in digital product design
• You are an excellent visual and written communicator, able to clearly communicate your design work and the support for your design decisions
• You enjoy working on complex technical design problems 
• Your portfolio includes a proven track record of shipping interaction design work in enterprise web applications
• You have strong interaction design and experience with prototyping tools (e.g. Principle, Framer, Sketch, Figma, InVision)
• You understand systems thinking and component-based design patterns
• You give and receive feedback well, supporting and improving the work of your colleagues as well as your own
• You want to work in a rapidly changing, high-growth start-up environment

Bonus points

• You have experience using code editors, or querying data using SQL or other data analysis tools.
• You have worked on technical products and data visualizations
• You have built SaaS, enterprise software, or developer tools
• You can write HTML, CSS, and React/Javascript