Datadog is hiring a Senior Design Manager to lead the team behind DRUIDS, its design system used by over a hundred designers and thousands of engineers across thirty-plus products. The role owns the system's direction, quality bar and tooling, partnering closely with product designers, frontend engineers and PMs.
What you'll do
- Decide what DRUIDS owns, what it ships, and what stays with product teams
- Own where the system goes next and argue for a point of view
- Turn direction into a roadmap and work with partners on what gets built and when
- Coach designers and design engineers, clarify ownership, and hire as the team grows
- Own the craft and quality of components, patterns and principles
- Decide what's good enough to go into DRUIDS
- Raise product quality through the system and through how design gets made
- Say when work isn't good enough
- Own the tooling that makes the system usable and the workflows to build with it
- Work out how design quality gets evaluated by people and by agents
- Decide what the system ships beyond components, and which formats and surfaces it needs
- Keep a pulse on what's being built and where teams are struggling
- Define how the system shows up for product teams, including touchpoints and working models
- Make the system something teams want to use
What we're looking for
- 8+ years in product design
- 3+ years managing people
- Experience managing and growing a design system team
- Ability to read and write front-end code
- Strong design opinions and point of view
- Clear communication skills
- Feedback that improves quality and direction
- Ability to build relationships with leaders and influence them
- Experience developing reports and handling underperformance
- Desire to work in an engineering-forward company
Good to know
- Hybrid workplace