Director, Product Management - Platforms

DataDog
New York
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 300,000 - 385,000 annuallyFunction: Executive & General ManagementExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Leadership","Stakeholder management","Problem-solving"]

Lead the internal Core Platforms that power Datadog’s engineering organization. Own the vision, roadmap, and execution for platform capabilities, delegate to 15+ PMs, and partner with senior engineering leadership to ensure high reliability, scale, and cost-efficient operations across data platforms, internal developer platforms, and AI-enabled capabilities.

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DataDog
7 months ago

Director, Product Management - Platforms

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Job Summary

Lead the internal Core Platforms that power Datadog’s engineering organization. Own the vision, roadmap, and execution for platform capabilities, delegate to 15+ PMs, and partner with senior engineering leadership to ensure high reliability, scale, and cost-efficient operations across data platforms, internal developer platforms, and AI-enabled capabilities.
Location: New York
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Executive & General Management
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Drive Platform Adoption: Partner with engineering and product teams to ensure widespread adoption of shared platforms and Golden Paths, reducing duplication and accelerating delivery.
  • •Improve Operational Efficiency: Improve developer velocity, time-to-production, and operational efficiency across Datadog’s engineering ecosystem.
  • •Drive Cost and Margin Efficiency: Drive infrastructure cost efficiency, margin protection, and sustainable unit economics by maximizing platform reuse and standardization.
  • •Define and Track Success Metrics: Define and track platform success metrics, including adoption of platform capabilities, reduction in internal toil, time-to-production improvements, cost efficiency per workload, and the percentage of new products built on shared platform primitives.
  • •Lead and Scale the Organization: Build, mentor, and develop a multi-layer organization of Product Managers and Group Product Managers, including org design, talent development, and succession planning.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 300,000 - 385,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity401kHealth InsuranceDentalParential Leave

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of B2B SaaS Product Management experience, including 5+ years leading and scaling teams of Product Managers
  • •Platform Product Leader with a track record of leading large-scale internal platforms for broad engineering organizations
  • •Strong technical foundation to partner with senior engineering leaders and guide complex platform decisions
  • •Data-driven operator with experience defining and using metrics to drive platform adoption, efficiency, and business impact
  • •Execution-oriented, with clear priorities, disciplined product thinking, and the ability to operate in complex, ambiguous environments
Experience:10+ yearsSaaSB2BEnterprise software
Skills:CommunicationLeadershipStakeholder managementProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:CloudNoSQLSQLIn-memory storesData infrastructureComputeStorageNetworkingCloud-native architectures

Company Brief

DataDog
Provides a cloud-native monitoring and observability platform that unifies metrics, traces, logs, and security signals to help engineering, operations, and security teams monitor and troubleshoot modern applications and infrastructure.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2010
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