Join Dash0 and help us define the future of observability. We are OpenTelemetry-native, building a delightful, simple, and AI-centric platform that eliminates vendor lock-in and meaningless toil. Shape a product that developers love—all with transparent pricing and cost-control built in.
The Opportunity
Dash0 is looking for a Head of Design to lead our design team and define how developers and SREs experience observability. Reporting to the VP of Product, you'll own the design function end-to-end — setting the vision, building the team, and ensuring we ship world-class experiences across the platform.
This is a rare opportunity to shape the design culture of a product that technical users genuinely love, during a phase where your decisions will define the experience for years to come.
What You'll Do
Lead and grow the design team, setting high standards for craft, process, and output.
Define and drive the design vision across the product, ensuring coherence as the platform scales.
Partner with Product Management and Engineering leadership to shape product strategy and roadmap priorities.
Establish and evolve design practices, processes, and rituals that help the team do their best work.
Stay hands-on where it matters — jump into critical design challenges and set the bar for quality.
Build a culture of frequent customer interaction, ensuring the team's work is grounded in real user workflows and pain points.
Recruit, mentor, and develop designers as the team scales with the company.
What You Bring
8+ years of product design experience, with 3+ years leading and managing design teams.
Proven experience designing complex, data-dense interfaces for technically sophisticated users.
Track record of building strong partnerships with Product and Engineering leadership.
Ability to operate at both strategic and tactical levels — comfortable setting vision and rolling up your sleeves.
Experience scaling a design team in a high-growth environment.
Based in or willing to work CET timezone hours.
Nice to Have
First-hand experience with or deep understanding of operating software in production.
Experience in observability, monitoring, or developer tools.
Experience building design systems from the ground up.
Why Dash0
This is a unique opportunity to help build a generational company. Dash0 is backed by top-tier investors including Balderton Capital, Accel and Cherry Ventures and led by a founding team with decades of experience in observability. We're in the middle of a massive growth phase after our Series B — and we're just getting started.
If you're looking for a place where a great product meets great people, where momentum is real and your impact is visible from day one — this is it.
What we offer:
Competitive salary & meaningful equity participation — you'll own part of what you're building
Flexible, remote-first work environment with offices in New York, Amsterdam, and Munich
€60/month phone & internet allowance
Location-specific benefits
Collaborative, fast-moving team culture with a builder mindset
Clear path for career growth and development
Direct access to founders and leadership
Skills Required
- 8+ years of product design experience
- 3+ years leading and managing design teams
- Proven experience designing complex, data-dense interfaces for technically sophisticated users
- Track record of building strong partnerships with Product and Engineering leadership
- Ability to operate at both strategic and tactical levels
- Experience scaling a design team in a high-growth environment
- Based in or willing to work CET timezone hours
- First-hand experience with or deep understanding of operating software in production
- Experience in observability, monitoring, or developer tools
- Experience building design systems from the ground up
What We Do
We are a group of observability and monitoring experts dedicated to a single mission. We strongly believe Observability should be easy to understand, use, install, integrate, and manage. We make Observability easy for every developer. We fully embrace OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and open standards for modern observability. Our focus is on correlating and contextualizing issues to look beyond the limitations of telemetry silos. It should be easy for users to collect relevant telemetry and our goal is to have widespread adoption with a user-friendly and developer-friendly experience. We believe that more data doesn't always lead to more insights and often results in significant costs.
