Director, Product Management - Core Platforms | Datadog Careers

Datadog

Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
New York, NY
Salary
$300,000–$385,000 / yr
Posted
18 days ago
Nearby
99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

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This role $342k
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This role pays more than 98% of similar roles. Most pay $176,450–$239,225 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $342k versus about $208k for comparable roles.

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About Datadog

Datadog, Inc. is an American company that provides an observability service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services, through a SaaS-based data analytics platform.

Datadog currently has 130 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $187,000–$240,000 across 62 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Director, Product Management - Core Platforms | Datadog Careers

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As a Director of Product Management for Core Platforms at Datadog, you will lead a team of over 15 Product Managers to define and execute the plans for internal platforms that enable efficient product development across the company. Your responsibilities include driving platform adoption, improving operational efficiency, reducing costs, defining success metrics, and scaling your organization through talent development. You will work closely with senior engineering leadership to ensure Datadog operates at hyper-scale while maintaining high reliability and economic discipline. The role requires expertise in cloud-native architectures, data infrastructure, and compute/storage/networking concepts, along with strong technical acumen and the ability to make informed trade-offs on complex platform decisions.

Skills

AWS Kubernetes Terraform Docker CI/CD Prometheus Grafana NoSQL SQL PostgreSQL AI Datacenters Compute Storage Networking Cloud-Native Metrics SaaS

What you'll do

  • Drive widespread adoption of shared platforms to reduce duplication and accelerate delivery.
  • Improve developer velocity and operational efficiency across engineering ecosystems.
  • Maximize platform reuse and standardization to enhance cost efficiency and margin protection.
  • Define and track success metrics for platform capabilities, including adoption rates and cost savings.
  • Build and mentor a multi-layer organization of Product Managers and Group Product Managers.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of B2B SaaS Product Management experience with 5+ years leading and scaling teams.
  • Proven track record in leading large-scale internal platforms for broad engineering organizations.
  • Strong technical background with expertise in cloud-native architectures, data infrastructure, and compute/storage/networking concepts.
  • Experience defining and using metrics to drive platform adoption, efficiency, and business impact.
  • Ability to partner deeply with senior engineering leaders and guide complex platform decisions.
  • Clear communicator with excellent written and verbal skills for influencing senior stakeholders.
  • Execution-oriented mindset with clarity of priorities and disciplined product thinking.

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