This role pays less than
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of similar roles. Most pay
$161,000–$235,750
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versus about
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Based on 240 similar postings.
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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
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Listed pay typically runs
$161,000–$205,000
across 138 roles with salary data.
Manager, Strategic Sourcing, AI Infrastructure & Services joins the Procurement team to manage the end-to-end AI spend category, including foundation models, APIs, and development tools. This role involves developing category strategies, leading high-value negotiations for seat and consumption-based pricing, and building neocloud and GPU-capacity capabilities. The successful candidate will partner with Engineering and Finance to translate architectural trade-offs into commercial business cases while applying FinOps discipline to quantify savings across a fast-moving spend base. Key responsibilities include tracking category KPIs, monitoring market trends, and championing automation tools like Claude and ChatGPT to streamline sourcing workflows. Required expertise includes deep knowledge of AI spend economics, procurement systems like Zip, and the ability to advise executive leadership on investment decisions regarding inference compute and emerging technologies within a high-growth environment.