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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.
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JOB TITLE: Head of Competitive Intelligence
The Head of Competitive Intelligence will build and lead a product-led function to inform product strategy, roadmap prioritization, and competitive readiness. This role involves managing a team of analysts and engineers to translate competitor product evolution, technical capabilities, pricing, and customer sentiment into actionable insights for Product, Sales Engineering, and leadership. Key responsibilities include owning the competitive radar, producing deep-dive feature-gap analyses, and maintaining a central repository of competitor profiles and comparison frameworks. The successful candidate must demonstrate technical fluency in observability, cloud infrastructure, security, developer tooling, or distributed systems. You will synthesize technical documentation, changelogs, and architecture diagrams to identify credible differentiation. This role solves the business problem of converting complex market signals into roadmap recommendations and GTM-ready enablement materials like battlecards and strategic deal narratives.
Own the recurring competitive radar for priority competitors, including taxonomy, source standards, and update cadence.
Produce competitive deep dives, feature-gap analyses, and early-warning briefs for specific product domains.
Translate competitive findings into roadmap recommendations, product differentiation hypotheses, and decision guidance.
Build and maintain a central repository of competitor profiles, comparison frameworks, and evidence logs.
Convert validated research into GTM-ready materials such as battlecards, objection handling, and strategic narratives.
Synthesize signals from technical communities, customer feedback, win/loss data, and analyst research.
Partner with Product Management to frame competitive questions and connect findings to roadmap prioritization.
Lead a high-impact team of competitive intelligence analysts and engineers.
What we're looking for
You have 8+ years of experience in competitive intelligence, technical product strategy, product management, market intelligence, strategic technical research, or related enterprise software work.
You have strong technical fluency in observability, cloud infrastructure, security, developer tooling, distributed systems, or enterprise SaaS platforms.
You can read and interpret technical documentation, changelogs, release notes, architecture diagrams, and public competitor materials.
You can distinguish credible technical differentiation from surface-level claims and synthesize technical, commercial, and market evidence into clear recommendations.
You have strong executive writing skills to produce concise memos, structured briefs, and leadership-ready recommendations.
You can influence Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, and leadership stakeholders without direct authority.
You understand legal, ethical, and compliance considerations in competitive intelligence gathering.
Experience in observability, cloud infrastructure, security, developer tooling, platform engineering, or technical enterprise SaaS (preferred).
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