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Senior Datadog For Startups Founding Engineering Lead in New York

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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From $128K/yr

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We’re looking for an experienced sourcing leader to join the Datadog Procurement team and help grow the Strategic Sourcing group. Make an impact by partnering closely with senior technology and business leaders, owning our fastest-growing AI, neocloud, and inference spend end-to-end, and continuing to prove the value that Strategic Sourcing brings to the organization. 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 the AI spend category end-to-end, covering foundation-model and AI APIs, AI development and productivity tools, and AI-enabled SaaS (with neocloud and inference compute as an emerging area), while developing and executing category strategies aligned to business objectives Champion AI and automation adoption across the sourcing function by identifying tools (e.g. Claude, ChatGPT) and building repeatable workflows that make sourcing faster, smarter, and more scalable Lead high-value AI vendor negotiations spanning foundation-model and API agreements, AI development and productivity tools, and AI SaaS, structuring seat- and consumption-based pricing across net-new purchases and strategic renewals, and building neocloud and GPU-capacity capability as the category grows Partner with Engineering and Finance to turn architectural and consumption trade-offs into commercial business cases, forecasts, and savings targets Build pricing and consumption models and apply FinOps discipline to quantify buying scenarios and uncover savings across a fast-moving spend base Work alongside executive and senior technology leadership as a trusted advisor on AI and neocloud investment decisions, influencing strategy and commercial trade-offs at the leadership level Track category KPIs (savings, pipeline, cycle time), monitor AI market, vendor, and pricing trends,

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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From $116K/yr

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Reporting to the Senior Manager, Enablement Curriculum and working across a cross-functional Enablement team, you'll build learning experiences that hold up in the field - objectives, practice, assessment, and the content that carries them. This is a builder's role. You'll decide how the learning actually works, and you'll own the quality of what ships. 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. Who you are: An owner: You take pride in your outputs and their outcomes. You take ownership from design through launch and everything that comes after it. An innovator: You challenge the status quo, bring new ideas, and look for ways to improve what already exists. An agile problem solver: You shift seamlessly between detail and big picture to meet the moment, adapting to change with a solutions-oriented mindset. A lifelong learner: You challenge assumptions and use curiosity to drive continuous improvement. A trusted advisor: You ask sharp questions, synthesize complex ideas, and build relationships to understand and explain ambiguous concepts. A clear communicator: You bring structure, clarity and polish to your work - written, verbal or visual. What you’ll do: Build the curriculum for Global Commercial Customer Success. Develop high-quality enablement content (instructor-led materials, facilitator guides, eLearning, job aids and assessments) for both individual contributors and their frontline leaders, built to instructional design and adult learning principles. Build within the learner journey. Contribute to and build the components of role-specific journeys (onboarding, everboarding and on-demand) inside the curriculum arc for your area. Know what good looks like. Translate performance expectations into observable behaviors and clear proficiency standards. Turn

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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From $252K/yr

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We're looking for an Engineering Manager II to own and grow the Observability Pipelines engineering org at a pivotal moment in the product's lifecycle. Observability Pipelines is Datadog's on-premise, vendor-agnostic telemetry pipeline product, with a lot still to build as it grows and scales. It sits at the center of a fast-consolidating market, is central to Datadog's data pipeline optimization story for Logs and Metrics customers. This is a build-and-scale opportunity: you'll grow the management and technical leadership layers, co-own the roadmap with Product, and define how this org operates as it continues to expand. 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: Directly manage the OP org including EM1s across NYC and Paris, set technical direction, and be the connective tissue across a distributed team Build out the management and technical leadership layers as the org continues to grow - today ~20 ICs Partner directly with Product to co-own the roadmap and strategy, helping decide where OP’s engineering investment goes next Set and evolve the operating rhythm across the group: planning cadence, on-call and incident standards, and cross-team alignment Own key cross-org relationships with the SaaS Logs Pipelines team, the BYOC team, and the Vector open-source community Coach managers and senior engineers, and build the succession and growth plans that let the org scale beyond you Who You Are: Experienced managing managers across distributed teams, with a track record of raising the bar on how those teams operate, not just delivering through them Back

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📍 New York, New York, United States
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About Datadog: Datadog is the essential monitoring and security platform for cloud applications. We bring together end-to-end traces, metrics, and logs to make your applications, infrastructure, and third-party services entirely observable. These capabilities help businesses secure their systems, avoid downtime, and ensure customers are getting the best user experience. The Team: The Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team analyzes company financial data (revenue, customers, headcount, expenses, etc.) in order to support the business’ growth and success. Within FP&A, the R&D Finance team enables the financial strategy behind Datadog’s Engineering and Product organizations. We partner directly with technical leadership to drive decision-making around our most critical investments. Your work will be highly cross-functional and play a pivotal role in connecting the dots across the organization through a financial lens, ensuring operational alignment and informing decision making. The Opportunity: As a part of the R&D Finance team, this person will be key in supporting our product and engineering leadership team. Reporting to the Senior Manager, you will help create our annual budget and financial targets and work with operational leaders to support execution against our goals. Your work will be highly cross-functional and strategic, and you will play a pivotal role in connecting the dots across the organization through a financial lens, in order to help ensure operational alignment and inform decision making. What You’ll Do: Partner with senior business leaders to manage their departmental budgets on a regular basis, including but not limited to the company’s co-founder and CTO Manage financial forecasts and analytics, which include data across revenue, customers, product, company expenses, and headcount / workforce. Help manage significant portions of the company’s spend, including but not limited to AI and GPU spend across the compan

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -84.7%

From $131K/yr

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Datadog is a world-class monitoring and security platform for cloud applications. We're dedicated to creating, developing, and supporting our product and customers, fostering seamless collaboration and problem-solving among Dev, Ops, and Security teams globally. Built by engineers for engineers, our SaaS product is trusted by organizations of all sizes across various industries, driving digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring for our customers' entire technology stacks. As cloud technologies continue to evolve and digital operations become ever more crucial, Datadog remains at the forefront of innovation and is well-positioned for sustained growth. Datadog's Finance team partners with stakeholders across the organization, providing commercial, operational, and analytical support to ensure that Datadog's business continues its rapid and efficient growth. The Equity Administration team is responsible for overseeing the full cycle of stock administration on a global basis, collaborating with groups across Accounting, Tax, People, Payroll, and Legal to manage Datadog's equity plans worldwide. Our work spans the processing of equity transactions including RSU releases, stock option exercises, and ESPP purchases; management of equity-related inquiries from employees, executives, investors, and other key partners; day-to-day management of the E*TRADE Equity Edge Online platform; global equity reporting and tax compliance; oversight of equity procedures, policies, and controls; and employee education on equity programs. We are seeking a hands-on Equity Administration Assistant Manager to own our complex and high-risk equity workstreams. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Equity Administration, the Assistant Manager will serve as a first level preparer or reviewer on equity transactions, assist with process documentation, and work closely with various internal teams across Accounting, Tax, People Operations, Payroll, and Legal. This is a ro

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -84.7%

From $200K/yr

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Datadog is hiring a Head of Global Executive Support to lead and scale our Executive Support organization. This is a leadership role responsible for the strategy, operations, and people development of a global team spanning Executive Assistants, Senior EAs, Team Leads, and Managers. The leader will serve as the connective tissue between executive leadership and the broader organization, helping to set the standard for operational excellence, building scalable systems, and developing the next generation of EA talent. Datadog's Executive Support team is a high-visibility, high-impact function that directly enables our most senior leaders to operate at their best. As the leader, you'll shape how the entire function runs; building a team culture grounded in excellence, discretion, and genuine partnership. The right person for this role brings deep expertise in executive-level support, a systems mindset, and a track record of leading high-performing administrative organizations. 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 and develop a global, multi-level executive assistant team Define the long-term vision and operating model for Executive Support at Datadog Drive headcount planning, resource allocation, and org design as the company scales Develop and maintain policies, playbooks, and documentation that standardize high-quality support across all executive stakeholders Identify and implement process improvements that increase efficiency and reduce friction across the organization Act as an escalation point for complex, high-stakes, or sensitive executive support needs Maintain discretion and judgment around confidential information at the highest levels of the organization Partner with Finance, Legal, People, and leaders across

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -84.7%

From $280K/yr

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Datadog is seeking a Director of Product Management for Platforms to lead the internal platforms that power our global engineering organization. This is both a customer and internal platform leadership role, focused on enabling Datadog customers to maximize value with Datadog but also to enable other Datadog products to build, scale, and operate products efficiently and reliably. In this role, you will bring a combination of technical expertise, product management experience, and a deep understanding of platform and shared capabilities to help Datadog grow its leadership position. You will lead a team of product managers and collaborate with senior leadership in product, engineering and design. Your scope includes driving product features shared across all Datadog but also large-scale Datadog’s platform solutions. What You’ll Do Own the vision and strategy for platform products, ensuring alignment with overall company goals and customer needs. Identify new opportunities for innovation and drive them from concept to execution, ensuring they have a measurable impact on customers and the business. Define product roadmaps and manage the prioritization of features and initiatives to ensure the team's efforts are aligned with business goals. Drive Platform Adoption: Partner with engineering and product teams to ensure widespread adoption of shared platforms and shared features, reducing duplication and accelerating delivery. Improve Operational Efficiency: Improve developer velocity, time-to-production, and operational efficiency across Datadog’s engineering ecosystem. Collaborate with cross-functional teams including engineering, design, data science, marketing, and sales to deliver infrastructure product solutions that meet customer needs and business objectives. Define and Track Success Metrics: Define and track platform success metrics, including adoption of platform capabilities, reduction in internal toil, time-to-production improvements, cost efficienc

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -84.7%

From $100K/yr

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The GTM Strategy & Operations Associate will join a global team driving Datadog’s next phase of growth. We’re interdisciplinary thinkers leveraging diverse business backgrounds in management consulting, investment banking, business development, and tech to accelerate Datadog’s global growth. We work directly with Datadog’s most senior leaders to set strategy, improve efficiency across the business, support data-driven decision-making, own complex operations, and more. In this role, you will serve as the strategic partner for our Enterprise segment in the Americas region, identifying opportunities for revenue growth & sales force effectiveness, spearheading strategic initiatives across our go-to-market teams, and driving critical annual planning activities. This role offers the chance to make an immediate and significant impact as we continue to expand our Americas footprint. 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: Support the Enterprise Strategy & Operations team in addressing strategic and operational challenges faced by the Americas Enterprise sales leadership Partner with senior team members to analyze key business areas and surface insights that inform decision-making Support the design and execution of regional programs, including headcount planning, territory design, pipeline reviews, and business performance tracking Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Sales, Channels & Alliances, Marketing, and Customer Success to execute high-impact initiatives that drive growth and improve sales productivity Support sales leadership in executing critical operating rhythms (e.g., QBRs, forecast reviews, leadership updates) Drive day-to-day operational processes, including stakeholder support, KPI management, and process

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -84.7%

From $80K/yr

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The GTM Strategy & Operations Associate will join a global team driving Datadog’s next phase of growth. We’re interdisciplinary thinkers leveraging diverse business backgrounds in tech, management consulting, investment banking and business development to accelerate Datadog’s global growth. We work directly with Datadog’s most senior leaders to set corporate strategy, improve efficiency across the business, support data-driven decision-making, own complex operations, and more. In this role, you will identify opportunities for revenue growth and design strategic go-to-market (GTM) initiatives by evaluating business tradeoffs and partnering with senior leaders to shape GTM strategy. You will drive key planning processes, including capacity planning and quota planning, optimization and expansion strategies, and KPI design and measurement. Additionally, you will lead critical operational initiatives and long-term strategic projects that improve execution and help build the foundation for the company's continued growth. 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: Strategic roadmap development: Develop short- and long-term GTM strategies by identifying growth opportunities, setting business priorities, and aligning sales and growth targets. Lead strategic planning initiatives, including headcount and KPI planning, incentive design, and cross-functional projects to improve execution and accelerate revenue growth. Global quota ownership: Own quotas for the global Sales organization – build and maintain quota models, adjust them throughout the year in response to org changes, and drive stakeholder alignment along the way. GTM analysis, reporting, and modeling: Analyze sales and GTM data to identify trends and understand efficiency by channel. Develop data

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -84.7%

From $99K/yr

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Datadog's Finance team collaborates with teams across the organization, providing commercial, operational and analytical support to ensure that Datadog's business continues to scale rapidly and efficiently. The Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team analyzes company financial data (revenue, customers, headcount, expenses, etc.) in order to support the business’ growth and success. As an analyst supporting the team, you will play a key role in delivering insights through the management of essential data infrastructure, including our financial planning tool, Pigment. Your role will be highly cross-functional, leveraging systems and data to unlock analytical capabilities for both FP&A and business leaders. Your role is critical in synthesizing information from across the organization to foster operational alignment and support informed strategic decisions. 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 the team’s forecasting and reporting software, Pigment, supporting data-driven insights through the development of dashboards and KPIs, both for standard FP&A reports and ad hoc projects Work cross-functionally with FP&A leaders to improve existing datasets and models Ensure data and system best practices in processes across the organization, including during planning and reporting cycles Represent FP&A in the data & analytics community, collaborating with analytics partners across the organization to democratize data and share insights Work on strategic projects and initiatives for senior management, assessing various business opportunities and proposing solutions Support Datadog’s data-based decision making and continued efficient growth Who You Are: 2+ years of professional experience in FP&A, Data Analy

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -84.7%

From $192K/yr

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You will lead a small, hands-on engineering team building the secure, scalable Core Analytics Data Access Platform that accelerates Datadog’s Applied AI and analytics capabilities. The team owns the Data Access Platform — a unified interface that lets AI and analytics teams discover and self-serve production-ready datasets while abstracting underlying systems and embedding required legal and compliance guardrails. In this role you’ll own technical direction, contribute to design and code, and partner closely with Applied AI, Product Analytics, and internal platform teams to provide reliable datasets and APIs for model training and analysis. This role balances day-to-day engineering leadership with long-term platform planning. 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 a Hands-On Engineering Team: Manage, mentor, and grow a small team of 2–4 data engineers (mix of senior and junior) across Paris and NYC, fostering technical excellence and career development. Own Technical Direction and Delivery: Define architecture, engineering priorities, and the team roadmap for the Data Access Platform, driving implementation of scalable, secure data pipelines and platform services. Contribute to Design and Code: Spend substantial time coding, reviewing, and shipping critical platform components to ensure performance, reliability, and operational excellence. Partner with Internal Stakeholders: Work closely with Applied AI, Internal Product Analytics, product managers, and platform teams to define data contracts, APIs, SLAs, observability, and curated analytical datasets. Ensure Data Security, Governance, and Reliability: Implement access controls, lineage, monitoring, and compliance guardrails to support safe model training and repeatable analytics workflows.

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -84.7%

From $90K/yr

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We are seeking a Senior Revenue Accountant to join Datadog's growing Finance team. In this role, you will support the company's revenue accounting operations by partnering across Finance, Customer Success, Sales Operations, and other cross-functional teams to ensure accurate revenue recognition, billing, and financial reporting. You'll play a key role in improving order-to-cash processes, supporting month-end close activities, and helping scale finance operations in a fast-growing SaaS environment. This position offers the opportunity to develop expertise in technical accounting, process improvement, and cross-functional collaboration while contributing to Datadog's continued growth. 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: Execute month-end close activities, including preparing journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, and supporting schedules. Analyze complex customer billing arrangements and prepare revenue recognition analyses in accordance with ASC 606. Manage invoicing activities, calculate key revenue metrics, and partner with customers and internal teams to resolve billing questions. Collaborate with Customer Success, Deal Desk, Sales Systems, and Order Operations to improve the order-to-cash process and operational efficiency. Support internal and external audit activities, including revenue walkthroughs and preparation of audit documentation. Contribute to process improvement initiatives and other cross-functional finance projects that support business growth. Who You Are: Bachelor's degree in Accounting and 3+ years of progressive accounting experience, preferably at a public company or Big Four accounting firm. Strong understanding of revenue accounting principles, including experience applying ASC 606 guidance. Excellent written

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -84.7%

From $80K/yr

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As a Finance Systems Analyst, you will play a key role in modernizing Datadog's finance organization through process automation, data analytics, and financial systems optimization. Working within the Finance Systems team, you will partner closely with Accounting, FP&A, Tax, and other finance stakeholders to improve the efficiency, accuracy, and scalability of financial processes and reporting. You will leverage technologies such as AI tools, SQL, Python, Tableau, and financial systems to analyze data, automate workflows, and deliver actionable insights. This role offers an opportunity to help shape how emerging technologies, including AI, transform finance operations while contributing to strategic decision-making across the business. 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: Partner with Accounting, FP&A, Tax, and other Finance stakeholders to gather requirements and translate business needs into scalable reporting and analytics solutions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams including IT, Business Systems, Sales Systems, and Analytics to drive data and automation initiatives. Build and maintain dashboards and reporting tools that monitor financial and operational performance and support evolving business priorities. Automate recurring finance processes and enhance data workflows using AI tools, data visualization platforms, and custom solutions. Support financial system implementations and upgrades through data migration, mapping, reporting integration, testing, and validation activities. Deliver analytical insights and maintain documentation that enables self-service reporting and informed decision-making across Finance. Who You Are: Have 1-5 years of experience in data analytics, financial systems, finance operations, or a rel

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -84.7%

From $153K/yr

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The Principal CRO and Web Analyst will drive the insights, measurement, and experimentation that shape Datadog’s website roadmap and improve how users discover, learn, and convert. You’ll use data to uncover opportunities, size impact, guide prioritization across high-value pages and journeys, and inform audience segmentation and personalization. This role combines analytical depth, clear storytelling, and hands-on execution across testing and optimization while shaping the experimentation culture and strategy that the broader team operates within. You’ll partner closely with Marketing, Product, and Web Engineering to deliver measurable gains in engagement and conversion. 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 website analytics, KPI frameworks, and user behavior insights to inform the website roadmap Identify performance gaps using data, benchmarks, funnel analysis, and user behavior patterns Translate insights into clear recommendations, prioritization frameworks, and experimentation plans Define and scale Datadog’s web experimentation program, including testing strategy, methodology, and best practices Improve engagement and conversion through testing, optimization, segmentation, and personalization initiatives Partner with Marketing, Product, and Engineering to align experimentation with business priorities and present findings to senior leadership Who You Are: You have 10+ years of professional experience, including 6–8 years in conversion rate optimization, web analytics, experimentation, or a related field You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to turn data into clear narratives and decisions You have experience with user behavior data, funnel reporting, audience segmentation, and testing methodologies

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📍 New York, United States
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend +671.4%

$139.1K – $231.9K/yr

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As a leading biopharmaceutical company, Pfizer is dedicated to the discovery and delivery of high value therapies across a variety of disease areas. It is our mission to bring innovative medicines to patients that significantly improve their lives, and our priority is to ensure patients have access to these medicines. The Health Technology Assessment (HTA), Value & Evidence (HV&E) team is responsible for ensuring patients have affordable, timely access to medicines and vaccines by advancing innovative value and evidence solutions to inform healthcare decision-making. ROLE SUMMARY The HTA, Value & Evidence Senior Manager is responsible for development and execution of high-quality HV&E strategic efforts to support optimal access and reimbursement for treatments in Oncology. This role directly impacts the ability to achieve business objectives on a global basis by providing strategic guidance and robust evidence development relevant to achieve optimal global patient access by demonstrating the value of Oncology medicines. This position will be part of Pfizer’s dynamic HTA Value & Evidence team and will have the important role of managing health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) to generate data to support patient access to the GU Cancer Portfolio. This position will be working closely with the Oncology cross-functional teams (e.g., access, medical, clinical, commercial, etc.) and country teams to foster a culture that promotes innovation and thrives on doing better for Pfizer’s patients and society in general. This position will function in a closely aligned fashion with the Global Access Strategy and Pricing (GASP) team to ensure there is a single and coordinated view on strategy and project execution. This position will function with a ‘OnePfizer’ mindset and will work in a closely ali

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