Sejal Kotak

Sejal Kotak

Product Design in Brooklyn, NYC, she/her

About

I am a seasoned product designer with over 8 years of industry experience. Most recently, I worked on 0-1 products at Datadog.

I'm really good at:

  • Embracing ambiguous problems and turning them into simple, intuitive solutions

  • Creating and expanding design systems efficiently

  • Designing SaaS and B2B enterprise tools

  • Using research, stakeholder knowledge and customer feedback to iteratively work towards the vision

  • Hiring and mentoring junior designers

  • Producing high-quality visual and interaction designs

  • Working with engineers to ensure quality design implementation

  • Aligning with stakeholders, making trade-offs, advocating for good design solutions

Work Experience

2020 — 2023
New York, NY

Lead Designer, CI Visibility, 2020–2022
datadoghq.com/product/ci-cd-…

Lead Designer, Observability Pipelines, 2022–Present
datadoghq.com/product/observ…

2019 — 2020
Senior Product Designer at Transfix
New York, NY
2018 — 2019
Redwood City, CA

Designed tools for classroom collaboration between teachers and students

2017 — 2017
Product Design Intern at Salesforce
San Francisco

Graduate school internship

2013 — 2016

Social Advertising Tools

Projects

2023

Datadog Observability Pipelines enables efficient collection, transformation, and delivery of logs at scale. Gain control over observability data for informed infrastructure decisions, optimized volume, flexible data routing, compliance, and data standardization.

Role:
Led the design of critical features that enabled its market launch in August 2023.

2022

About:
Discover, classify, and redact sensitive data to build a modern compliance strategy at scale.

Role:
Led the design overhaul of a configuration tool that generated new revenue for Datadog.

2021

Streamline your CI/CD workflows with deep visibility into your CI environment.

My role: Led the 0-1 design of a new Datadog product, which was generally available in October 2021.

Education

2009 — 2013
Bachelor of Design at Symbiosis International University

Communication Design

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