Senior Product Manager - Risk & Compliance

As a Senior Product Manager for AI & Data Security at Datadog, you will define and deliver capabilities that help organizations securely adopt and scale AI across their applications and infrastructure. You’ll focus on building products that provide visibility into AI systems and data usage, assess security posture, and enable teams to manage risk across the AI lifecycle. This role sits at the intersection of security, AI, and cloud platforms, and is ideal for a PM who thrives in emerging, ambiguous problem spaces. You will work cross-functionally to shape how customers discover, understand, and secure AI-powered systems in production. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Own and drive the roadmap for AI & Data Security capabilities, including data security posture management and data loss prevention Define how customers assess and manage the security posture of AI systems, including risks related to configuration, data exposure, and policy compliance Partner with engineering and design to deliver end-to-end product capabilities, from concept through launch and iteration Collaborate with security research teams to identify emerging risks in AI systems and translate them into actionable product features Engage with customers to understand AI adoption patterns and validate solutions that enable secure, scalable operations Define and track success metrics such as product adoption, usage, and impact on customer security workflows Who You Are: &l

At Datadog, we're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale, enabling seamless collaboration and problem-solving among Dev, Ops, and Security teams globally for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way. APM at Datadog is on its way to redefine how users interact with their telemetry. We are integrating intelligence directly into troubleshooting workflows to help engineers find root causes faster, navigate complex distributed systems seamlessly, and optimize application performance with minimal cognitive load. APM provides deep visibility from end-user interactions to backend services and we are now expanding this foundation with new AI-driven insights, guidance, and automation. As a Senior Product Manager for APM, you will own product strategy and drive execution across Distributed Tracing, Performance Analysis, and Intelligent Troubleshooting. You will set direction for a critical area of the roadmap, work closely with senior engineering and design leadership, and influence how APM evolves across the broader observability platform. You'll be relied on to make sound, independent product judgment calls with limited oversight, mentor other product managers, and represent APM in cross-org and executive conversations. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What you will Do: Own the product strategy and long-term vision for a core area of APM, grounded in deep understanding of customers, their performance challenges, telemetry workflows, and the competitive landscape Lead strategic conversations with design partners and key customers to uncover complex p

Datadog's Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) group is one of the company's fastest-growing product areas, spanning Real User Monitoring (RUM), Product Analytics, Synthetic Monitoring, Feature Flags, and Datadog Studio, our newest AI-native observability surface. As Director, you will own engineering for one or more of these product areas, with scope shaped by your background and interests, and you will manage 50-60 engineers through a team of Engineering Managers. You'll partner with Senior Directors and product leadership to shape the roadmap, not just execute against it, and you'll help drive AI adoption across engineering tooling, workflows, and product features. This role is based in Paris, one of Datadog's most established engineering hubs, with a clear growth path to Senior Director for the right candidate. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You'll Do: Own engineering for one or more DEM product areas with scope calibrated to your background and strengths Manage 50-60 engineers through a layer of Engineering Managers; this is a manager-of-managers role Shape the roadmap alongside product leadership rather than simply executing against it — push back on, iterate on, and help author the strategy for your area Drive AI adoption across the engineering org, from tooling and workflows to product features and team practices Navigate cross-team dependencies across DEM, APM, Core Platform, AI Platform, and Data Science Build and retain engineering talent in Paris, mentor Engineering Managers toward Director readiness, and participate in the on-call rotation Who You Are: You have directly managed Engineering Managers, not just individual contributors — this is a non-negotiable requirement for the role You integrate

We are Datadog's in-house product experts. The Technical Solutions team enables Datadog's worldwide growth by educating potential clients and ensuring that existing customers are happy and successful. We share our technical and product expertise with customers via multi-channel technical support, demos, and presentations. You’ll be joining a team and company where you will be challenged, but also will immediately witness your contributions to Datadog. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Manage, develop, coach and mentor Premier Support Engineers who respond to client requests, reproduce and troubleshoot issues, and dive into Datadog’s 400+ integrations Act as the owner for your team’s accountability and performance - managing performance reviews, performance plans, and any employee relations issues for your direct reports Partner with Support team senior leadership to oversee team projects and initiatives to improve productivity, process or procedure Collaborate with internal teams and customers on high-priority escalations and act as a resource to resolve escalations from team members as necessary Who You Are: Passionate about people management and/or mentorship with previous experience leading a team, including managing other managers Self-motivated, detail-attentive, and have a desire for continuous learning A critical thinker who defaults to a client-centric approach and uses data to make informed decisions A tinkerer with some programming experience and a basic knowledge of Linux Active contribution to open-source projects (code, bug reports, etc.) and the Engineering Community (Meetups, etc.) Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If

Observability Pipelines (OP) is Datadog's on-premise, vendor-agnostic telemetry pipeline product. As an Engineering Manager on the team, you'll own people management and engineering execution for one of OP's core missions, spanning areas like Integrations (ingesting from and routing to the many source and destination systems customers rely on), streaming insights, cost control, or pipeline capabilities, reliability and scalability. You'll partner directly with Product to help shape the roadmap, and work closely with your peer EMs and senior ICs to define how OP operates and grows. This is an opportunity to build your management craft while having real influence over the technical direction of a fast-growing product area. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Own people management and engineering execution Establish a strong operating rhythm for the team Drive high standards for on-call rotations and incident response Partner with Product on the roadmap, balancing product priorities with technical realities Lead, coach, and grow the careers of engineers on your team Who You Are: Experienced managing engineers directly, comfortable owning a team’s operating rhythm end-to-end, from planning through execution and stakeholder communication to incident and on-call ownership Have a technical background in distributed systems and data infrastructure Have experience with on-premises or customer-installed software concepts A product-minded partner to have on the team — you enjoy working with Product on strategy Experience with high-performance or Rust-based data pipeline systems Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications o

About the Team The Applied AI Architect team partners with organizations to turn OpenAI's most capable models into meaningful, real-world impact. We work with customers across industries to identify where AI can create value, design secure and scalable solutions, and help those solutions move from early exploration into sustained production adoption. The team brings together technical strategy, customer partnership, and practical deployment expertise, working closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, Research, and specialist delivery teams. About the Role As the Manager of Applied AI Architects in Paris, you will lead a team of senior technical leaders responsible for the technical strategy, customer journey, and path to production value for OpenAI's largest and most complex customers across the South EMEA region. Your team will act as the “CTO of the book of business,” partnering with customer executives and technical teams from pre-sales discovery and solution evaluation through deployment, adoption, and measurable business impact. You will set the operating model for how Applied AI Architects own technical account plans across ChatGPT Enterprise, the OpenAI API, Codex, and other agentic AI solutions. In close partnership with Sales leadership and Account Directors, you will help prioritize customer portfolios, allocate technical resources, and ensure business priorities translate into focused use cases, credible architectures, actionable adoption roadmaps, and durable customer value and growth. You will remain accountable for the team's technical outcomes while developing its people and bringing in the right specialists across deployment, implementation, enablement, security, product, research, and partners. You will serve as an executive technical sponsor for critical engagements, a senior voice of the customer inside OpenAI, and a cross-functional leader who can move confidently between regional strategy, executive decision-making, architectural depth, and hand