Visual Designer - Contract

Datadog’s new suite of products empowers teams to code, ship, and quickly gather user insights—all within minutes. Built to be intuitive and accessible, these tools make it easy for users to analyze data, visualize flows, and monitor experiences, helping them make smarter, data-driven decisions faster.

We’re looking for a Visual Designer to contribute to the shaping of new visual directions at Datadog. You’ll have the opportunity to define how the product looks and feels, while collaborating closely with cross-functional partners to bring that vision to life. This role will focus on pushing the visual craft, polish, and consistency of our product UI to the next level, ensuring it resonates with our audience and stands out in the market.

You’ll be embedded in a cross-functional team of product designers, working closely with PMs and engineers.You’ll craft a product experience that’s polished, cohesive, and distinctive.

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

Datadog offers a competitive hourly rate for this role and may offer additional compensation elements. 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, if eligible.

The reasonably estimated hourly rate for this role at Datadog is:
$75—$100 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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