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📍 United States· Full-time
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From $151K/yr

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We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager who is ready to lead through ambiguity and improve how software gets built at MongoDB. This role leads teams focused on developer productivity, with an emphasis on measurable improvements to the software development lifecycle. This role can be based remotely in the United States. The Team The AXIS team (AI, X-functional tools, Insights, and Signals) sits within Developer Productivity and is responsible for overseeing the metrics and observability infrastructure of our expansive developer environment to help build a strong data-driven culture. You’ll also be a key partner in building the agentic ecosystem for AI-driven development across engineering. Candidate Profile We’re looking for an experienced leader with a passion for solving the big challenge of measuring developer productivity and providing the actionable signals that help teams improve their performance. They should be comfortable working collaboratively with other leaders and partners across our Engineering and Data teams in maximizing the use of data for insights and AI enablement. The right candidate for this role will have 4+ years of experience managing software engineers, including hiring, performance management, growth planning, and compensation; required for external candidates and preferred for internal candidates 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building and operating production systems; experience in developer tooling, platform engineering, observability, or data engineering is a strong plus Demonstrated the ability to lead through ambiguity, work across team boundaries, and deliver outcomes without close supervision Strong customer orientation and sound judgment in finding practical, high-leverage solutions Experience working with systems involving analytics, data pipelines, and metrics platforms Experience with AI tools development and enablement efforts Strong technical judgment, including the ability to evaluate t

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Role In this role, you’ll lead and evolve the design system foundations for ChatGPT. You’ll make nuanced design judgment explicit and usable across product teams, establishing the principles, patterns, and standards that enable coherent, high-quality experiences at scale. A paramount part of this role is raising OpenAI’s craft bar. This work extends beyond maintaining a component library: you’ll define what excellent product design looks and feels like, establish clear guidance for choosing and applying interface patterns, and ensure that new ChatGPT experiences strengthen a coherent system across platforms. Working closely with research, engineering, product, and design, you’ll create a continuous learning loop between design principles, product experiences, evaluation, and evolving technology—shaping a system that becomes more capable and expressive as ChatGPT grows. This role is based in our San Francisco HQ. We offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role you will: Define an exceptionally high standard for craft and taste, translating that standard into principles, guidance, and examples that elevate the quality of ChatGPT. Own and evolve ChatGPT’s design foundations, including typography, sizing, spacing, layout, motion, accessibility, and responsive behavior. Establish a shared source of truth across platforms and improve the systems connecting tokens, components, patterns, widgets, learning experiences, and app-like product experiences. Build a comprehensive design systems framework with clear, opinionated guidance about when and how product teams should use different interface patterns. Translate design judgment into durable standards and use prototyping and evaluation workflows to test experiences, identify recurring issues, and improve the system. Identify promising patterns across emerging product experiences and turn them into reusable, documented foundations. Partner with research, engineering, product, and design to evolve the d

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Role We're looking for a Head of Competitive Intelligence to build and lead a world-class competitive intelligence function. This person will transform market signals into strategic advantage by developing the frameworks, analysis, and insights that inform our product strategy, go-to-market approach, and executive decision-making. This is not a research role. It's a highly cross-functional strategy role that sits at the intersection of Product, GTM, Research, and Leadership. You'll establish the systems, operating cadence, and analytical rigor that help the company understand where we win, where we're vulnerable, and how the market is evolving. What You'll Do Build and own the company's competitive intelligence strategy and operating model. Develop and maintain comprehensive competitive assessments, including Harvey Ball analyses, feature matrices, product comparisons, pricing analyses, and market landscape reviews. Create executive-ready competitive insights that influence product strategy, roadmap prioritization, pricing, and investment decisions. Build best-in-class objection handling and competitive messaging for Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and Partnerships. Monitor competitor product launches, model releases, acquisitions, partnerships, pricing changes, funding, and GTM motions, synthesizing complex information into clear strategic recommendations. Establish repeatable processes and tooling for collecting, validating, and distributing competitive intelligence across the company. Partner closely with Product Management to inform roadmap decisions and identify areas of strategic differentiation. Collaborate with Marketing to sharpen positioning and messaging based on competitive dynamics. Support executive leadership with board-ready competitive analyses and market briefings. Build dashboards and reporting that track competitive movements and emerging industry trends. Develop frameworks that evaluate competitors across capabilities, enterprise r

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📍 Tg, Dallas Office, United States
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We're looking for a Manager of Restaurant Back Office Systems to own and lead our CrunchTime platform strategy, administration, and integration ecosystem. This role is responsible for ensuring CrunchTime operates reliably as the backbone of restaurant-level inventory, labor, and operations management, while managing a small team and partnering closely with IT, Finance, and Operations stakeholders. This is a hands-on leadership role: you'll set direction for the platform, develop and cross-train two direct reports so the team can cover for one another, and remain deeply technical enough to troubleshoot integration issues, guide configuration decisions, and evaluate system changes yourself. ***Musts be in the office 4 days a week*** What You'll Do Own the CrunchTime platform end-to-end, including configuration, maintenance, upgrades, and long-term roadmap Lead, coach, and develop a team of 2 direct reports, setting clear goals, providing regular feedback, and supporting their career growth Cross-train direct reports across CrunchTime modules and integration points so the team has full coverage and no single point of failure during absences, escalations, or turnover Build individual development plans for direct reports, identifying growth opportunities and stretch assignments across platform, integration, and vendor management work Manage and troubleshoot integrations between CrunchTime and: Point of Sale (POS) systems SAP (financial/ERP data flows) Distribution partners such as Sysco (EDI/ordering, invoicing, and inventory feeds) Serve as the primary escalation point for data discrepancies, integration failures, and system outages affecting inventory, ordering, or labor data Partner with Finance, Supply Chain, and Operations teams to ensure back office data supports accurate COGS, inventory valuation, and labor cost reporting

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📍 Hartford, Hartford, United States
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We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time. Position Summary The Senior Software Engineer / Technical Lead (AI & Automation) will provide technical leadership for the design, development, modernization, and support of critical applications supporting Prior Authorization Operations (PAOps) under PBM line of business. This role will be responsible for building and maintaining scalable, cloud-native solutions that enable intelligent workflow automation, AI-driven decisioning, document processing, and business process optimization. The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical leader with strong software engineering and cloud architecture expertise, coupled with practical experience implementing Generative AI, Agentic AI, and Large Language Model (LLM) solutions in production environments. This individual will collaborate closely with Data Engineering, Data Science, Product, and Business teams to deliver highly available, secure, and scalable applications while driving innovation through AI-powered solutions. Key areas of focus include: Application architecture, development, and production support Cloud-native engineering and platform modernization Microservices and distributed systems AI/GenAI, Agentic AI, and LLM-based solutions Event-driven and streaming architectures Engineering best practices, mentoring, and technical leadership R

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📍 Washington, United States of America, United States
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -5.2%

$130.7K – $205.2K/yr

Business Planner - Print Customer Services and Solutions Description - As the lead Business Planner, you will partner across the Print Consumer Services and Solutions (CSS) organization, to drive operational excellence, strategic planning, and execution. You will lead the organization's business management rhythm, ensuring effective coordination of priorities, planning processes, and leadership operating cadences. Leveraging strong financial acumen, you will oversee budget planning, forecasting, and performance management, providing insights and recommendations that support informed business decisions. Through exceptional communication skills and attention to detail, you will enable the VP and leadership team to effectively represent the organization's priorities, progress, and results across executive and cross-functional forums. You will collaborate closely with peer organizations to strengthen operating models, drive organizational alignment, and continuously improve business management practices across CSS. Responsibilities Business Operations Partner with CSS leadership to drive the organization's business management rhythm, operational excellence, and execution of strategic priorities through effective planning, governance, and stakeholder alignment. Coordinate business reviews, planning activities, and stakeholder engagement. Facilitate organizational priority setting, performance reporting, and operational reviews across business, financial, organizational, and transformational initiatives. Anticipate business needs, identify risks and dependencies, and proactively develop solutions that support successful execution of CSS priorities. Communications Lead the CSS communication strategy and executive storytelling framework, ensuring clear alignment around organizational priorities,

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📍 Boston, Massachusetts, United States· Full-time· Remote
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From $44.6K/yr

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Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™️ platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. Distributed across 160+ public exchanges globally and thousands of private exchanges at the edge, the SASE-based Zero Trust Exchange is the world’s largest in-line cloud security platform. We believe the future of work is Human + AI and are building an AI-native enterprise where human potential is amplified by machine intelligence to solve the world’s hardest security challenges. Driven by deep customer obsession, we are committed to the mission, outcome, and to each other. We bring these commitments to life through three core behaviors: ownership and collaboration, trust through outcomes and impact, and a challenge culture with ongoing feedback. Ready to make an impact at the company pioneering security transformation in the AI era? Join us at Zscaler. Role We are looking for a Sales Development Representative to join our team. This is a Hybrid role, reporting to the Manager of Sales Development in the Sales Development department. You will have the opportunity to be a key contributor to Zscaler’s sales pipeline and revenue growth through lead qualification. This is a hybrid onsite role that requires 2 days a week in the office (Plano, TX/Raleigh, NC/or Boston, MA) . What you’ll do (Role Expectations) Researching and prospecting into organizations by emailing, calling, networking and other creative means to lead early stage pipelines Qualifying and scheduling well qualified appointments with main decision makers within global 2000 or "targeted" companies through inbound and outbound leads Utilizing the CRM to maintain accurate activity, contact, and account information of all customers and prospects Who You Are (Success Profile) You act like an owner. Your passio

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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We're looking for a Head of Enterprise & Field Marketing to lead and scale our global field marketing organization, own account-based marketing for our largest and most strategic accounts, drive alliances and partner marketing in service of enterprise growth and regional strength; and oversee our strategic events strategy and programs. This is a senior leadership role responsible for the strategy, team, and execution to drive high-quality pipeline and conversion for Diligent’s AI-powered GRC platform in all regions, and design programs that turns enterprise pipeline into revenue through a full-funnel approach, including integrated regional campaigns; 1:1/1:few ABM for named global accounts; bespoke strategic events that offer cut-through experiences for prospects and customers; and leveraging co-marketing of alliances and partnerships for net-new pipeline and brand expansion. You would be joining Diligent at an exciting moment in the company’s history, as they unleash their new AI-powered GRC platform to help General Counsels, Chief Compliance Officers, Audit and Risk Leaders. This is the result of nearly three years of intense development of agentic workflows inside the Diligent platform, as well as MCP/plug-in access to Diligent offerings - providing a robust, differentiated experience for clients who need solutions that accelerate and action critical business objectives, not just static reporting. Working closely with Sales and the broader GTM organization, you will lead an established, multi-region field marketing team and be responsible for evolving it from regional execution into a more specialized, account-centric growth engine — tightly aligned with enterprise sales leadership, customer success, global events, and partner teams. You'll own the budget, the roadmap, and the relationship with sales as the primary marketing partner for our highest-value opportunities. You w

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📍 Austin, Texas, United States· Full-time
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Manufacturing Test Engineering Manager Position Summary We are seeking an experienced Manufacturing Test Engineering Manager to lead the development and execution of the end-to-end manufacturing test strategy for next-generation AI server platforms and datacenter infrastructure. This role is responsible for defining and driving the manufacturing test architecture from L6 board assembly through L11 rack-level integration and final system validation , ensuring world-class product quality, manufacturability, and production scalability. This leader will manage a team of 3–5 Manufacturing Test Engineers while partnering closely with Hardware, Firmware, Platform, Validation, Quality, Operations, and Joint Design Manufacturing (JDM) partners. The role owns the manufacturing test strategy, test coverage, factory test infrastructure, manufacturing capacity planning, and continuous improvement of manufacturing quality. Key Responsibilities Manufacturing Test Strategy Define and own the end-to-end manufacturing test strategy from L6 board assembly through L11 rack integration . Develop standardized manufacturing test methodologies that optimize quality, throughput, cost of test, and scalability across multiple products and JDM sites. Establish manufacturing test standards, best practices, and engineering processes that support high-volume server manufacturing. Technical Leadership & People Management Lead, mentor, and develop a team of 3–5 Manufacturing Test Engineers supporting multiple hardware programs. Establish team priorities, allocate resources, and ensure successful execution of manufacturing test deliverables. Foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Serve as the primary technical escalation point for manufacturing test and production issues. Cross-Functional Engineering Collaboration Partner with Hardware, Platform, Firmware, Validation, Reliability, Quality, and Operations teams to ensure manufac

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📍 United States· Full-time· Remote
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As an Engineering Manager on Coder’s Core Workspaces team, you’ll lead engineers building and evolving the systems behind our agentic development experience. You’ll help make agents more capable, reliable, and useful across real development environments. You’ll guide technical direction while growing the team and keeping execution sharp. You’ll work closely with Engineering, Product, and Design across the agent harness, integrations, and developer workflows. What you’ll do here Lead and grow a team within our Workspaces organization. Set technical direction across the agent harness, integrations, and workflows. Stay close to the code and contribute to architecture and implementation decisions. Evolve agent execution, tool use, context management, streaming, and long-running workflows. Extend our provider-agnostic architecture as models and capabilities change. Partner with Product and Design to turn agent capabilities into useful developer experiences. Improve reliability, performance, and operability across agentic systems. Coach engineers, raise the technical bar, and create clarity around priorities and tradeoffs. What we’re looking for Experience managing and growing software engineering teams. Strong hands-on engineering experience with React and TypeScript . Experience with Go . Hands-on experience building systems around LLMs and agentic workflows. Experience with model APIs, tool calling, context management, or agent loops. Strong distributed systems knowledge. Working knowledge of AWS . Strong technical judgment and comfort working through ambiguity. A track record of helping engineers grow while maintaining a high execution bar. Bonus tacos if you have Experience building coding agents, developer tools, or cloud development environments. Experience with MCP , agent tools, or multi-agent systems. Experience with remote execution, sandboxing, or isolated compute. Experience building abstractions across multiple model providers. Deep experience with AWS, Kube

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. THE ROLE As an Engineering Manager (Player & Coach), you will lead and mentor a team of Forward Deployed Engineers focused on building, scaling, and optimizing LLM inference workloads for Baseten customers. Applying both hands-on technical ownership and managerial leadership, you will guide your team through the processes of designing, deploying, and managing high performance, low latency AI applications on Baseten’s platform. FDE at Baseten is not a sales function – we are a mix of engineering, product, and customer architects who contribute to the core Baseten codebase, drive large portions of our feature roadmap, and execute on complicated customer engagements. You will also partner with product, infrastructure, and other customer engineering teams to ensure that large language models (LLMs) and other generative AI systems deliver best-in-class performance, reliability, and cost efficiency in production environments. EXAMPLE INITIATIVES Take a look at these blog posts written by members of our Forward Deployed Engineering team: Forward Deployed Engineering on the frontier of AI The fastest, most accurate Whisper transcription Deploy production-ready model servers from Docker images Deploy custom ComfyUI workflows as APIs RESPONSIBILITIES Leadership & Team Management Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Forward Deployed Engineers, providing guidance on technical direction, project execution, and professional deve

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -88.9%

From $192K/yr

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Manager I, Engineering - Onboarding Growth This Engineering Manager will lead the Onboarding team within the Shared Capabilities organization, setting product direction, and coaching and developing team members. They will staff and drive projects that drive new users to adopt Datadog in their organizations. From the first time a new user signs up for a Datadog trial, this team is responsible for making sure they have a world class setup and onboarding experience, and can realize the full value of Datadog in their organization. Onboarding owns the “front door” of Datadog, the very first experience new users and prospective customers encounter. This work is extremely important to company success - improving our onboarding process directly impacts new users ability to find value with Datadog quickly. This role also involves close partnerships with other product teams to deeply understand customer needs and deliver compelling first-time user experiences 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: Work with Product Management and Design to plan and staff projects for the Onboarding Growth team Coach and develop engineers at various levels Ensure strong cross-team communication and design best practices around project management, code review, architecture patterns, and more Build UX features to streamline the onboarding and trial experience through rapid experimentation Build out data platforms and use that data to personalize the onboarding experience for each user Work directly with product teams to ensure each product has a best in class new user experience Create AI-assisted setup options to make sure initial setup “just works” out of the box Champion the use of analytics data to analyze user behaviour and apply those insights

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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As a Staff Product Manager on Datadog's Observability Data Platform (ODP) , you will lead product management for a portfolio of foundational platform bets — work that changes the cost structure and capability of the platform itself, not the cost of any single feature. Among ODP’s portfolio of engineering work are efforts to bring the platform's unit cost down meaningfully each quarter, plus a slate of architectural bets aimed at order-of-magnitude cost reduction over the longer horizon. The work you'll lead reshapes how Datadog ingests, routes, and exposes telemetry value to customers — and is foundational to how every product team in Datadog's ecosystem will think about telemetry economics going forward. This role reports to the Group Product Manager of ODP. What You'll Do: Set product direction across foundational platform bets by defining problems and desired outcomes, partnering with engineering to determine slices of work that drive value in phases for users and the business. Collaborate on the long-term cost-and-value architecture of the platform — how value-aware telemetry, innovative data engines, and customer-facing cost stories fit together over multiple quarters. Develop and defend sizing and impact estimates for large, diffuse programs — credibly produce the analysis that engineering leadership and pricing partners need to make resourcing and prioritization calls. Anticipate and communicate market trends in telemetry economics and agentic observability and how they shape platform investment. Develop deep understanding of cost-to-serve by partnering with engineering on the unit economics of the data platform and bring that cost-profile understanding into collaborative discussions with product verticals about customer-facing trade-offs. Surface the customer-positive angles in cost work that engineering-led optimization tickets don't currently make visible. Deliver concise written and verbal communication to executive, engineering, and customer audien

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📍 USA, United States· Full-time· Remote
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -88.9%

From $150K/yr

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As a Regional Manager, Security Sales Engineering, you will lead a team of Specialist Sales Engineers, driving technical execution, operational excellence, and team development across your region. This is an opportunity to be one of the first leaders of this specialist group, and have an outsized impact on the way we pitch and evaluate our Security products. You’ll act as a force multiplier by owning team performance, shaping execution standards, and partnering closely with Sales leadership to influence strategy, improve outcomes, and scale impact beyond individual deals. What You’ll Do: Lead, coach, and develop a team of Specialist Sales Engineers focused on Security, driving performance, engagement, and long-term career growth through regular feedback and structured development Partner confidently with senior Sales leadership on regional strategy, multi-quarter planning, annual capacity planning, and forecast alignment operating 2-3 quarters ahead to anticipate resourcing needs and business priorities Own in-field execution at a regional level by taking an executive presence role in strategic and high-impact opportunities and providing senior-level stakeholder alignment and technical credibility alongside your team Oversee consistent, high-quality delivery across technical sales cycles in the region, including evaluations, customer engagements, and deal progression Hire and onboard top talent across ICs and manager-level roles, building a high-performing team and accelerating ramp through structured onboarding and enablement Manage regional operations including resource allocation, utilization, KPI tracking, productivity, and skills development to ensure effective coverage across the territory Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Product, Marketing, Enablement, and Support at a senior level to align on regional strategy, GTM execution, and customer experience Drive operational excellence across the region by improving processes, maintaining data qualit

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -88.9%

From $192K/yr

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As the Engineering Manager for Commercial Audit, you will lead a high-performing team responsible for scaling Datadog’s security and compliance posture through automation, tooling, and engineering excellence. Our GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) function is a critical partner to the broader Security and Engineering organizations, ensuring that Datadog not only meets rigorous global regulatory standards but does so in a way that is efficient, scalable, and integrated into our cloud-native infrastructure. You will manage a team of engineers and analysts who are transitioning to a GRC engineering direction to treat compliance as a software problem, leveraging AI, custom tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native services to turn complex regulatory requirements into actionable, automated controls. You will lead the strategy, roadmap, and execution of Datadog’s Commercial Audit initiatives. This is a high-impact leadership role where you will grow a team of engineers and analysts responsible for directly maintaining our compliance programs and related audits (e.g., SOC2, PCI, HIPAA, ISO) while looking to improve efficiency and effectiveness through platforms and tooling. You will act as a bridge between technical engineering, legal, and compliance, enabling the organization to move fast while maintaining a secure and compliant environment. You will champion a culture of "compliance-as-code," identifying opportunities to automate evidence collection, streamline control testing, and reduce manual toil for both your team and our partner engineering teams. 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: Lead the strategy, roadmap, and execution of Datadog’s commercial security compliance efforts, shifting from manual audit processes to automated, scalable

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