Datadog, is hiring: Visual Designer, Contract in New York

What You’ll Do

• Advance the visual craft, while staying grounded in the established UX framework.
• Polish and refine existing UI components to elevate clarity, visual cohesion, and consistency across the product
• Design high-quality visual artifacts including illustrations, icons, visual systems, and states for micro-interactions
• Collaborate with product designers to align visual updates with UX goals
• Work outside the boundaries of Datadog’s current design system while contributing new visual patterns and refinements where appropriate
• Ensure visuals are accessible, scalable, and production-ready
• Partner with engineering to support implementation and maintain visual quality
• Align with the broader design org on visual standards and contribute to best practices for visual design at Datadog

Who You Are

• You have 5+ years of professional experience as a visual or UI designer
• You bring exceptional visual craft, with strong attention to detail, layout, color, typography, and spacing
• You’ve designed high-quality UI visuals for complex products
• You’re comfortable designing icons, illustrations, and motion/micro-interaction states
• You’ve worked with or contributed to design systems, and understand how to maintain visual consistency at scale
• You collaborate well across disciplines and communicate visual direction clearly
• You care about accessibility, visual hierarchy, and delivering polished, user-centered interfaces
• You’re self-directed, proactive, and able to work independently while also collaborating deeply with others

Nice to Have

• Experience with visual design for analytics, monitoring, or data platforms
• Experience in B2B environments where clarity and usability are key priorities
• Experience building and evolving design systems, ensuring scalability and consistency across components and workflows

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role is:

$156,000—$208,000 USD

About Datadog

Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.

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