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About the Role

This senior individual contributor role focuses on shaping talent development within Datadog's Engineering department, specifically in areas like leadership development, career pathing, organizational design, performance management, internal mobility, and succession planning. The role involves end-to-end ownership, from initial discussions with senior leaders to implementing large-scale programs. It also emphasizes understanding and leveraging AI's impact on engineering roles and building AI-powered People solutions.

Responsibilities

Design and lead complex talent programs for Engineering, spanning leadership capability, career architecture, org design, performance, internal mobility and succession for critical roles.
Partner directly with PBPs and senior leaders to turn ambiguous problems into clear programme goals, design principles and success measures.
Help Engineering and People understand and respond to how AI is reshaping roles, skills and ways of working, and translate that shift into practical talent and org design choices.
Stay hands-on from concept through to adoption: this is a build and run role, not a strategy and handover role.
Work across Enablement, Learning, People Analytics and People Systems so what you build scales and embeds into core people processes.
Equip PBPs with frameworks, tools and executive-ready narratives that support real adoption in the business.
Operate in ambiguity and influence without formal authority, building trust with senior stakeholders even before the answer is clear.
Evaluate impact using qualitative and quantitative data, and refine your approach based on what the business actually needs.

Requirements

Have designed and delivered talent programs in a fast-growing, global organization, and partnered directly with executives on strategic people questions.
Equally comfortable setting direction and getting into the detail, able to move from strategy to execution without handing work off prematurely.
Data-fluent, pragmatic and outcome-focused, with a strong bias towards delivery and follow-through.
Build consensus, challenge constructively and stay credible across differing perspectives.
Excited about the challenge and want to grow into it.

Skills

Talent program design
Talent program delivery
Leadership development
Career architecture
Organizational design
Performance management
Internal mobility
Succession planning
AI impact analysis
AI-powered solutions
Data analysis
Influencing without authority
Stakeholder management
Program scaling
Program embedding

Location

Hybrid

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

$162,000—$216,000 USD

Benefits

New hire stock equity (RSUs)
Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
Continuous professional development
Product training
Career pathing
Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program
Inclusive company culture
Access to Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks
Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
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 businesses with 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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