Top Design Jobs in New York City, NY

Leads product design direction for a suite of complex products, defining vision, roadmaps, metrics, and goals with cross-functional partners. Builds and develops a global design organization, champions product excellence, advances AI-enabled design and development practices, and improves design processes, tools, and capabilities. Partners closely with customers and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality B2B SaaS products.

Lead product design across Datadog’s security products, managing and coaching designers across multiple offices. Set design direction, maintain quality, develop security-focused design systems, and partner with Product and Engineering leaders on roadmaps and cross-platform experiences. Drive product and business outcomes while bringing AI fluency to design workflows and software development. The role requires extensive design leadership, complex product experience, technical fluency, and hands-on use of AI coding tools.

Lead and mentor a team of four designers developing AI monitoring, GPU monitoring, and agent console products. Drive cohesive end-to-end experiences, establish design quality standards, shape product strategy with Product and Engineering leaders, and deepen expertise in AI development workflows, evaluations, infrastructure, and agent debugging. Prototype and ship directly in code, conduct critiques and user testing, and develop designers through coaching and career support.

Leads and grows Datadog’s Experience Design group while remaining hands-on with high-impact web experiences. Responsibilities include managing designers, hiring and coaching, setting design standards, conducting research and journey mapping, creating interaction designs and prototypes, using AI and code-connected workflows, working in a CMS, and partnering with marketing, growth, engineering, and content teams to deliver and optimize shipped experiences.

Lead Datadog’s DRUIDS design systems team, setting strategy, roadmap, ownership, and quality standards. Manage designers and design engineers, coach and hire team members, oversee design-system tooling and workflows, and partner with product designers, engineers, and PMs. Maintain hands-on involvement in product design, front-end code, component quality, and emerging AI-assisted design and development practices.

Lead end-to-end product design for APM and observability workflows: partner with PMs and engineers, prototype and validate solutions (including AI-assisted and code-aware tooling), conduct research, mentor designers, and influence cross-functional product strategy to improve debugging, instrumentation, and performance investigation for complex distributed systems.

Lead and execute a new visual direction for a complex, data-dense product. Translate visual principles into hierarchy, layout, navigation, interaction, and system patterns. Prototype, test, and refine patterns, partner with Product Design, Design Systems, and Engineering to systemize and implement them. Influence stakeholders, maintain visual quality across teams, and produce artifacts and narratives that drive adoption and raise product craftsmanship.