Senior Product Manager, Feature Flagging

Datadog

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
New York, NY
Salary
$192,000–$240,000 / yr
Posted
3 days ago
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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $216k
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This role pays more than 75% of similar roles. Most pay $177,250–$217,112 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $216k versus about $197k 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 249 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $171,000–$230,000 across 127 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Product Manager, Feature Flagging

As a Senior Product Manager - Feature Flagging, you will join the team to own product strategy and execution for feature flagging and experimentation. You will build out the integration between flag decisions and observability signals while designing modern workflows tailored for an AI-native software development life cycle. Your daily work involves collaborating with RUM and APM teams to create a unified platform where flags act as critical signals for rollout gating and automated rollbacks. To succeed, you must possess deep technical knowledge of CI/CD, release cycles, and software architecture, specifically regarding server versus client compute tradeoffs in browser and native apps. You will leverage your experience with production-ready code, agentic tools, and B2B go-to-market strategies to improve developer experience and documentation while navigating complex technical debates as a peer to the engineering team.

What does a Product Manager earn in New York?

Median $195400 from 110 postings across 31 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Develop a roadmap to integrate feature flag decisions with observability signals like rollout gating and anomaly-triggered rollbacks.
  • Design flagging workflows optimized for an AI-native software development lifecycle where agents write and merge code.
  • Collaborate with internal observability, RUM, and APM teams to unify platform signaling.
  • Make technical product decisions regarding server vs. client compute tradeoffs and browser vs. native app behaviors.
  • Engage with engineers as a peer to review code and resolve complex technical trade-offs.
  • Participate in deal cycles to help the sales team close enterprise flagging contracts.
  • Create high-quality documentation and improve developer experience to bridge enablement gaps for the sales organization.
  • Communicate product vision, strategy, and progress to senior leadership and executive stakeholders.

What we're looking for

  • You must have over 5 years of experience working closely with engineering teams and owning a product area end to end.
  • You must have over 2 years of experience writing code that shipped to production through a full release cycle.
  • You must have a technical understanding of software architecture, including server vs. client compute tradeoffs and browser vs. native app differences.
  • You must have B2B experience, including helping close deals and managing developer documentation and experience.
  • You must be AI-fluent with experience using agentic tools in the software development life cycle.
  • You must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills to engage with engineers as a peer.
  • You must be based in New York City and able to work from the office three days a week.
  • Prior experience with observability tooling, experimentation platforms, or distributed systems is preferred.

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