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About the Role

Lead product management for foundational platform bets within Datadog's Observability Data Platform (ODP), focusing on initiatives that significantly impact the platform's cost structure and capabilities. This role involves shaping how Datadog ingests, routes, and exposes telemetry value, influencing future platform economics.

Responsibilities

• Set product direction across foundational platform bets by defining problems and desired outcomes.
• Partner with engineering to determine phased work slices that deliver value to users and the business.
• Collaborate on the long-term cost-and-value architecture of the platform, integrating value-aware telemetry, innovative data engines, and customer-facing cost stories.
• Develop and defend sizing and impact estimates for large, diffuse programs to inform engineering and pricing decisions.
• Anticipate and communicate market trends in telemetry economics and agentic observability.
• Develop a deep understanding of cost-to-serve by partnering with engineering on data platform unit economics.
• Bring cost-profile understanding into discussions with product verticals regarding customer-facing trade-offs.
• Surface customer-positive aspects of cost optimization work.
• Deliver concise written and verbal communication to executive, engineering, and customer audiences, clarifying complex architecture, cost-to-serve, and product priorities.

Requirements

• Strong systems thinking ability to connect cause and effect across the data platform.
• Ability to synthesize information from various cross-organizational stakeholders into a defensible product position.
• Proficiency in building and defending cost-and-impact models for multi-team engineering efforts.
• Collaborative approach with engineers, PM peers, designers, and commercial partners.
• Comfort operating with ambiguity and breadth in foundational platform work.
• 8+ years of Product Management experience or equivalent Staff-level capabilities in related software roles.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Skills

• Systems thinking
• Cross-organizational synthesis
• Sizing and impact estimation
• Product management
• Communication (written and verbal)
• Collaboration
• Operating with ambiguity

Location

• Hybrid

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Full-time

Experience Level

• Staff-level
• 8+ years of Product Management experience

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience

Salary/Compensations

• $244,000—$305,000 USD

Benefits

• New hire stock equity (RSUs)
• Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development
• Product training
• Career pathing
• Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program
• Inclusive company culture
• Community Guilds
• Access to Inclusion Talks
• Free, global Spring Health benefits for employees and dependents
• Competitive global benefits
• Healthcare
• Dental
• Parental planning
• Mental health benefits
• 401(k) plan and match
• Paid time off
• Fitness reimbursements
• Discounted employee stock purchase plan

About the Company

• Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale.
• It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers.
• Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence.
• Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.

Equal Opportunity

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