Senior Manager, Product Design - Security

About the role

<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p><em data-renderer-mark="true">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.</em></p> <h2>What you’ll do</h2> <ul> <li>Lead design direction across your team's products, and hold the bar for design excellence end to end: interactions, visual detail, consistency and cohesion.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Coach and grow designers across our Paris, Madrid and New York offices, helping each of them do the best work of their careers.</li> <li>Help define a security design system built on top of Datadog's existing components, with the security practitioner's workflows in mind.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Take accountability for the product and business outcomes your team's design work influences.</li> <li>Bring AI fluency to how your team works, from how design gets explored and validated to how it gets shipped.</li> </ul> <h2>Who you are</h2> <ul> <li>10+ years in design, including experience leading and growing high-performing teams.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>You've led complex products or features: a zero-to-one launch, a reimagining of something established, or both.</li> <li>A strong communicator who collaborates effectively with executive and cross-functional stakeholders.</li> <li>Able to demonstrate AI fluency, either in your own work or in how you've led teams through it.</li> <li>Comfortable navigating the technical complexity of modern software development and cloud infrastructure.</li> <li><strong>Ideally</strong>: 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.</li> </ul> <h2>Benefits and Growth</h2> <ul> <li>Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space</li> <li>Continuous career development and pathing opportunities for internal mobility</li> <li>Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking</li> <li>An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)</li> <li>New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan</li> <li>Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+</li> <li>Generous global benefits</li> </ul> <p><em>Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.</em></p> <p style="color: white;">LI-Hybrid</p><div class="conten

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