Director, Product Management - Platforms

Datadog

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Hybrid

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Hybrid
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$280,000–$350,000 / yr
Posted
101 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $228k
This role $315k
$161k most similar roles pay here $370k

This role pays more than 95% of similar roles. Most pay $195,300–$260,550 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $315k versus about $228k 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 266 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $161,000–$205,000 across 138 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Director, Product Management - Platforms

Director, Product Management - Platforms leads the internal platforms powering a global engineering organization while managing large-scale platform solutions for customers. This role involves leading a multi-layer team of product managers to define vision, strategy, and roadmaps for shared capabilities. The successful candidate will drive platform adoption, improve developer velocity, and enhance operational efficiency across the engineering ecosystem by reducing duplication and streamlining time-to-production. Key responsibilities include collaborating with cross-functional teams in engineering, design, data science, marketing, and sales to deliver infrastructure solutions. The role requires a technical foundation in cloud-native architectures, monitoring, observability, or cloud infrastructure. Essential skills include B2B SaaS product management experience, data-driven decision making using metrics like cost efficiency and toil reduction, and the ability to navigate complex, ambiguous environments while managing high-level stakeholder alignment for shared platform primitives.

What you'll do

  • Own the vision and strategy for platform products to ensure alignment with company goals and customer needs.
  • Define product roadmaps and manage the prioritization of features and initiatives.
  • Drive widespread adoption of shared platforms to reduce duplication and accelerate delivery.
  • Improve developer velocity, time-to-production, and operational efficiency across the engineering ecosystem.
  • Define and track success metrics including platform adoption, cost efficiency, and reduction in internal toil.
  • Build, mentor, and develop a multi-layer organization of Product Managers and Group Product Managers.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of B2B SaaS Product Management experience.
  • 5+ years of experience leading and scaling teams of Product Managers.
  • Proven track record leading large-scale platforms serving broad engineering organizations.
  • Strong technical background to partner with senior engineering leaders on complex platform decisions.
  • Experience at a monitoring, observability, or cloud infrastructure company with knowledge of cloud-native architectures.
  • Experience in defining and using metrics to drive platform adoption and business impact.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills to influence senior stakeholders and align cross-functional teams.

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