Senior Manager, Product Design - Security

Datadog
New York, NY
On-site

Who this role is best for

Aimed at senior design leaders with security or data-dense interface experience who can drive cross-functional collaboration and AI integration in a hybrid work setup.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 10+ years of design leadership experience and a track record of transforming team output.
    — “10+ years in design, including experience leading and growing high-performing teams.”
  • Individuals with a strong background in complex product design, especially zero-to-one launches or reimagining established features.
    — “You've led complex products or features: a zero-to-one launch, a reimagining of something established, or both.”
  • Candidates who can advocate for security practitioners and design with their workflows in mind.
    — “Help define a security design system built on top of Datadog's existing components, with the security practitioner's workflows in mind.”
  • Design leaders who are comfortable with modern software development and cloud infrastructure complexities.
    — “Comfortable navigating the technical complexity of modern software development and cloud infrastructure.”

Things to consider

  • The role requires direct engagement with cross-functional teams, including Product and Engineering leadership.
    — “Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to evolve cross-platform thinking, shape roadmaps”
  • Candidates must be prepared to work in a hybrid arrangement, with in-office collaboration emphasized.
    — “We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony”

How to stand out

  • Highlight before-and-after examples of design leadership impact in your portfolio or resume.
    — “A track record of leveling up a team's output, with before-and-after examples”
  • Demonstrate experience with AI fluency in design exploration, validation, and execution.
    — “Bring AI fluency to how your team works, from how design gets explored and validated”
  • Emphasize your ability to push for bold, opinionated design solutions rather than safe ones.
    — “push the team toward bolder, more opinionated solutions rather than safe ones”
  • Showcase your ability to coach and grow designers across multiple global offices.
    — “Coach and grow designers across our Paris, Madrid and New York offices”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Company

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What success looks like

  • Led design direction across security products
  • Coached and grew designers
  • Defined a security design system
Typical background
10+ years in design, including experience leading and growing high-performing teams

Skills & requirements

Required

Product Design ManagementSecurity Product DesignDesign SystemCross-platform ThinkingProduct RoadmapsTeam CoachingAI FluencyDesign ExcellenceUser AdvocacyTechnical Complexity

Preferred

Security Domain ExperienceInformation-dense InterfacesComplex B2B, B2C Or Consumer Products

Stack & domain

Product DesignSecurityCloudCodeData SecurityAIUXUIVisual DesignInteraction DesignCross-platform ThinkingRoadmapTechnical ComplexitySoftware DevelopmentCloud InfrastructureLeadershipCommunicationProblem SolvingTeamworkCollaborationAI Fluency

About the role

Original posting from Datadog

The Datadog Security design team (K9 Design, as we lovingly call it) is hiring a senior product design manager to lead design across our security products. This is a chance to shape an industry-leading experience for a new kind of Datadog user: security practitioners who need to catch threats where they start, stop them when they land, and shut down exposures before they turn into something worse.

You'll lead a team of designers at various stages of their careers across cloud, code and data security, turning an overwhelming amount of signal into something a security team can act on. The goal: build the security product people want to spend their day in. You'll own the design, push for excellence, and partner closely with Product and Engineering leadership to get there.

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

Lead design direction across your team's products, and hold the bar for design excellence end to end: interactions, visual detail, consistency and cohesion.

You're in the work. Run critiques, give direct and useful feedback, and push the team toward bolder, more opinionated solutions rather than safe ones.

Coach and grow designers across our Paris, Madrid and New York offices, helping each of them do the best work of their careers.

Help define a security design system built on top of Datadog's existing components, with the security practitioner's workflows in mind.

Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to evolve cross-platform thinking, shape roadmaps, and to set how the three disciplines work together day to day.

Take accountability for the product and business outcomes your team's design work influences.

Bring AI fluency to how your team works, from how design gets explored and validated to how it gets shipped.

Who you are

10+ years in design, including experience leading and growing high-performing teams.

A design leader first: a user advocate with a sharp eye for detail, strong taste and the willingness to get into the work and give direct feedback.

A track record of leveling up a team's output, with before-and-after examples of how your leadership transformed the design of a product.

You've led complex products or features: a zero-to-one launch, a reimagining of something established, or both.

A strong communicator who collaborates effectively with executive and cross-functional stakeholders.

Able to demonstrate AI fluency, either in your own work or in how you've led teams through it.

Comfortable navigating the technical complexity of modern software development and cloud infrastructure.

Ideally: Security domain experience, or a portfolio of information-dense, data-rich interfaces. Industry-leading work on complex B2B, B2C or consumer products counts for just as much here.

Benefits and Growth

Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space

Continuous career development and pathing opportunities for internal mobility

Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking

An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)

New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan

Free global mental health benefit through Modern Health

Generous 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:$204,000—$255,000 USD

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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