# Senior Design Manager - Design Systems at Datadog

- Company: Datadog
- What the company does: See metrics from all of your apps, tools & services in one place with Datadog’s cloud monitoring as a service solution. Try it for free. Backed by Index, CRV and ICONIQ.
- Company website: http://datadoghq.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York, New York, USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-22
- Apply by: 2026-11-06
- Apply: https://careers.datadoghq.com/detail/8223855/?gh_jid=8223855
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/datadog-senior-design-manager-design-systems/

## About the role

DRUIDS is the design system behind every Datadog surface, used daily by more than a hundred designers and thousands of engineers across thirty-plus products. You'll lead the team that owns it: designers and design engineers who set the system's direction, hold the quality bar for what ships, and build the tools that make designing in code the default way to work. The team partners closely with product designers, frontend engineers and PMs across the company.

## What they're looking for

- You have 8+ years in product design, 3+ of them managing
- You've managed a design system team and grown it
- You read and write front-end code, and can have conversations about it
- You design, have opinions and a point of view
- You are a clear communicator
- Your feedback improves quality and direction

Tags: Product Design