Senior Manager, Product Design - Security

About the role

Datadog's Security design team (K9 Design) is hiring a senior product design manager in Madrid to lead design across its security products. The team turns a large amount of signal into something a security team can act on, building the security product people want to spend their day in. The role partners closely with Product and Engineering leadership, and the company operates as a hybrid workplace.

Key responsibilities

• Lead design direction across the team's products, holding the bar for design excellence end to end: interactions, visual detail, consistency and cohesion.
• Run critiques, give direct and useful feedback, and push the team toward bolder, more opinionated solutions.
• Coach and grow designers across the Paris, Madrid and New York offices.
• Help define a security design system built on top of Datadog's existing components, with security practitioners' workflows in mind.
• Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to evolve cross-platform thinking, shape roadmaps and set how the three disciplines work together day to day.
• Take accountability for the product and business outcomes influenced by the team's design work.
• Bring AI fluency to how the team explores, validates and ships design.

Required profile

• 10+ years in design, including experience leading and growing high-performing teams.
• A design leader first: a user advocate with a sharp eye for detail, strong taste and willingness to give direct feedback.
• Track record of improving a team's output, with before-and-after examples of how leadership transformed a product's design.
• Experience leading complex products or features, such as a zero-to-one launch or a reimagining of an established offering.
• Strong communicator who collaborates with executive and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Ideally security domain experience, or a portfolio of information-dense, data-rich interfaces; industry-leading work on complex B2B, B2C or consumer products also counts.

Required skills

• AI fluency, demonstrated in personal work or in leading teams through it.
• Comfort navigating the technical complexity of modern software development and cloud infrastructure.

What we offer

• Product training and continuous career development with internal mobility paths.
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program, and access to employee resource groups.
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan.
• Global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+, plus generous global benefits.