datadog

New York

Product Designer II, Metrics

ON-SITE MID

Posted 6 days ago

Quick Summary

Role Overview

As a Product Designer II, you will shape the next generation of Custom Metrics, a foundational product powering core Datadog offerings. You will design workflows featuring AI-powered discovery and agentic governance to help customers manage high-volume observability data.

Key Responsibilities

Own end-to-end design from problem framing through shipped experience for Metrics workflows
Partner with engineering and product teams to translate technical complexity into simple experiences
Use research and data to validate design decisions and iterate based on feedback
Communicate design work and supporting rationale to internal product and design teams
Contribute to design quality and systems-thinking practices within the Metrics team
Collaborate with cross-functional teams that emit or consume foundational metrics data

Requirements Snapshot

At least 3 years of experience in product design
Portfolio showing end-to-end design decisions grounded in user data
Proficiency in advanced prototyping tools like Cursor or Claude Code
Strong visual and written communication skills for explaining design decisions
Experience with systems thinking and designing scalable flows for complex edge cases

Expected Impact

You will define how customers troubleshoot and govern one of the highest-volume data sets in the observability industry. By integrating AI-powered discovery and governance, your work will directly influence the foundational workflows that power a wide range of core Datadog products.

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Job Description

We're looking for a Product Designer II to shape the next generation of Custom Metrics—a foundational product that powers a range of core Datadog products. You'll design workflows that include AI-powered discovery and agentic governance to help customers see where their metrics come from, investigate cost and cardinality, and govern their metrics at scale.

This role sits at the heart of a deeply technical platform. You'll partner with product managers, engineers, and designers across many of the teams that emit, consume, or depend on metrics. Your work will define how customers reason about, troubleshoot, and govern one of the highest-volume and most foundational data sets in observability.

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:

Own end-to-end design from problem framing through shipped experience on Metrics workflows, including how AI-powered discovery and agentic governance are surfaced for customers

Partner with engineering and product on deeply technical subject matter and translate that complexity into simple experiences that hold up across our diverse customers
Use research and data to validate your design decisions, and iterate based on feedback from customers and stakeholders
Communicate your design work and support for your design decisions internally to your product team and design peers
Contribute to design quality and systems-thinking practices within the Metrics team, helping ensure consistency across related workflows

Who You Are:

You have 3+ years of experience in product design
Your portfolio includes a proven track record of end-to-end design with clear evidence of decisions grounded in user data.
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. Cursor, Claude Code, etc)
You understand systems thinking and how to design flows that scale across many variations and edge cases.
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.

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About Datadog:

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. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. 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.

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