What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, Product Management position at DataDog?
We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—allowing for seamless collaboration and problem-solving among Dev, Ops and Security teams globally for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.
The Opportunity:
As a Director, Product Management - Ecosystem and Integrations, you will work with a team of product managers and engineers to build the Infrastructure Monitoring ecosystem and integrations Datadog is well-known for. Your mission is to help our customers integrate more data endpoints with datadog, own the strategy for the agent deployed on millions of hosts and develop solutions for workloads like containers. You will also collaborate with the majority of other Datadog product teams and participate in industry forming projects like OpenTelemetry as product owner of Datadog flagship product and revenue.
You Will:
- Develop a deep understanding of our customers and market
- Work with world-class Product and Engineering teams to develop and evangelize product priorities and roadmaps that inspire our teams’ best work and deliver real value
- Partner with other product teams to ensure the Infrastructure Monitoring ecosystem and integrations continue to meet and exceed customer expectations
- Manage and grow both manager and IC PMs, ensuring they’re happy, motivated, and delivering high quality work
- Source candidates and help us grow the Product Management team
- Support and empower the Sales, Account Management, Marketing and Solutions teams to ensure the broadest reach and the best possible customer experience
- Contribute to a culture of learning and collaboration across the department and broader organization
- Raise the bar of PM leadership
You Are:
- An experienced leader in Product Management, ideally at a SaaS company with strong sense of Infrastructure monitoring and an obsession with solving customer problems to grow the business
- You have either worked as an engineer previously or have extensive technical knowledge to be able to discuss technical concepts with customers and internally
- You have Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience
- You have excellent verbal and written communication skills and the willingness to present and defend your ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences
- You are customer-minded with a high quality standard for the product to be delivered
Why You Should Apply:
- Generous and competitive global and US benefits
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
- Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
- Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space
- Best in breed onboarding
- Internal mentor and buddy program cross-departmentally
- Friendly and inclusive workplace culture
Datadog is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
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