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Senior Partner Program Manager - Datadog Reseller Program Remote (US) or New York, New York, USA We're looking for an experienced Senior Partner Program Manager to own partner pricing strategy, partner deal support, and pricing enablement across Datadog's Channels & Alliances organization. In this role, you'll serve as the subject matter expert for partner pricing, helping shape how Datadog structures, operationalizes, and scales partner pricing across its ecosystem. You'll act as the primary liaison between Channels & Alliances and Deal Desk, ensuring partner-specific pricing requirements, commercial frameworks, and program considerations are represented in Datadog's broader pricing strategy and processes. You'll support both internal teams and external partners by providing guidance on pricing models, deal structures, incentives, and commercial programs. You'll also own pricing enablement for the partner organization, developing training content and onboarding programs that help Partner Sales Managers confidently navigate Datadog's evolving pricing landscape. This is a highly cross-functional role that requires deep experience with Deal Desk, partner commercial models, and SaaS pricing, along with the ability to translate complex pricing concepts into scalable programs, tools, and training. 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 global partner pricing for the Datadog Partner Network Serve as the Channels & Alliances subject matter expert for partner pricing, commercial frameworks, and deal strategy Act as the primary liaison between Channels & Alliances and Deal Desk for partner-related pricing, discounting, incentives, and program requirements Advise Partner Sales Managers (PSMs) and partners on pricing models, deal structure

Senior Product Manager - Search Datadog’s Search team helps users – both human and agents – find answers to their questions. Search is a critical function in Datadog, and touches many product surfaces: the query editors in product homepages and dashboards, search bars for finding relevant assets, the global cmd+k navigation search, and the MCP tools that our Bits AI agent uses to respond to natural language prompts. Search is a full-stack team: owning user-facing search components, backend search ranking systems, and machine learning models to produce recommendations. The Search team is relatively new, and still growing. We have recently built out agentic search tools, and we are looking for a leader to help us expand to ambitious orchestration systems that deliver accurate results, and proactive recommendations across both keyword and semantic search. Beyond this, you’ll have room to influence how Datadog thinks about Search as a strategic surface. What you’ll do: Define and deliver how Datadog's AI agents discover the right context and tools to answer natural-language questions accurately and at scale Stay on top of industry trends in UI and agentic search experiences and capabilities Collaborate with Applied AI teams to integrate ranking, personalization, and recommendation models that scale across both human and agentic users Define and monitor KPIs for search quality, adoption, and downstream impact on user productivity; use them to drive data-informed decision making Engage directly with customers and internal product teams to deeply understand search journeys across query editors, global navigation, and natural-language agent interfaces Who you are: You have experience with search, ranking, or recommendation systems You are familiar with or very interested in MCP servers and differences between human and agentic UX You have a sharp eye for design and strong opinions on the micro-interactions — keyboard navigation, autocomplete behavior, loading

Datadog is seeking a Senior Payroll Specialist to keep up with our rapidly growing company. In this role, you will support the payrolls either directly through Workday and ADP or indirectly via a PEO (Professional Employer Organization) for the Americas (Canada, Mexico, and Brazil).. The individual will work closely with the internal team and with local payroll providers in order to securely process payroll within specified deadlines. You will also play a key role in supporting the company’s equity events by coordinating with the Equity team for stock based compensation including Restricted Stock Unit releases, Non Qualified Stock Options, and Employee Stock Purchase transactions, ensuring accurate tax withholding, regulatory compliance, and timely reporting. Most importantly, you will collaborate with our People and Finance teams to continue to scale this critical function. 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 the preparation and processing of payroll, ensuring data accuracy and meeting of deadlines. Handle all government reporting requirements for payroll taxes, withholdings and employer contributions. Manage regional payroll partners and PEO, including defining KPIs and standards they are required to meet. Liaise with payroll counterparts in APAC and EMEA to ensure global consistency of payroll processes and practices. Partner with the Benefits team on all matters involving benefits. Partner with the HRIS team for configuration and testing of new codes, tax withholding configurations, inbound/outbound integrations, and all other payroll related projects involving Workday. Partner with Finance stakeholders bridging the relationship between Payroll and Finance functions and support audits, identify and implemen

Datadog is seeking a strategic, visionary, and results-oriented Senior Director, Growth Marketing – Organic Growth (SEO/GEO/PLG) to lead our organic acquisition strategy across traditional search engines and emerging AI/LLM platforms. This leader will own the vision, strategy, and operating model responsible for driving measurable growth in organic traffic and inbound pipeline through content programs, off-page authority, and AI/LLM discoverability initiatives. In this role, you will lead a team of organic growth specialists, while partnering closely with Website Experience, Product Marketing, and Engineering teams. You will define Datadog's long-term organic growth strategy, establish investment priorities, and ensure the organization is positioned to win across an increasingly complex discovery ecosystem. 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 Datadog’s content-led SEO/GEO/PLG strategy, defining the topics, formats, and ecosystems that drive measurable growth in traffic and pipeline Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team Identify and prioritize high-impact content opportunities across product areas and influence cross-functional teams to bring that content to life Map and optimize Datadog’s presence across the full ecosystem of LLM-ingested content (e.g., YouTube, Reddit, review sites) to improve AI-driven discoverability Design and execute a comprehensive off-page strategy, including link acquisition, digital PR, and authority-building initiatives Partner closely with the Website Experience team, who owns technical SEO, to ensure content is effectively surfaced, indexed, and performant Create and contribute to high-impact content (e.g., flagship pieces, new formats, or experimental channels), setting the standard for qualit

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

Datadog is looking for an experienced Senior Account Based Marketing Manager to drive new customer acquisition and pipeline generation across the Americas (North America and LATAM), with a focus on our Commercial (SMB) segment. In this role, you will design and execute an integrated, multi-channel marketing account based-marketing strategy, spanning paid search, paid social, dedicated field programs, sponsored events, and third-party digital channels, in close partnership with sales leadership. This is a full-funnel, cross-channel mandate, with the latitude to prioritize the channels and programs that deliver the greatest impact. 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: Develop and execute a comprehensive, multi-channel marketing strategy to drive pipeline growth across the Americas, leveraging sponsored events, paid search, paid social, field-led programs, third-party digital placements, and more. Support the design and execution of 1:many, 1:few, and 1:1 ABX marketing programs for the Commercial (Small and Midsize Business) segment, combining digital tactics, such as paid social and programmatic display, with dedicated field plays, such as direct mail, to break into and expand high-value accounts. Serve as both strategist and operator for the region: help define the marketing plan and lead execution across paid media, field marketing, and event teams. Architect the operating model and playbooks for dedicated programs and partner with cross-functional marketing teams to execute dedicated programs where regional support is needed, maintaining consistent quality and cadence across the Americas. Establish the reporting and measurement framework needed to evaluate program and channel performance, refining the strategy based on results. Maintain flexi

We are a team of engineers that translate our real-world experience to help our user communities solve problems. With a focus on AI-accelerated workflows and next-generation developer ecosystems, you will have the opportunity to meet fast-moving teams where they are, helping them lay strong engineering foundations and broadening your impact to the developer community at large. This is a unique opportunity to use both your engineering depth and authentic storytelling skills to shape how the next wave of builders approach software health, scalability, and observability. What You’ll Do: Help developers hone their craft in an AI-accelerated world by exploring how AI coding assistants and rapid-prototyping tools change software workflows, and guiding teams on how to balance rapid prototyping with established engineering practices around performance, code health, and system reliability. Build in public by creating authentic, peer-to-peer technical content, sharing your engineering insights directly where modern developers collaborate in person and online. Drive a constructive, bidirectional feedback loop between fast-moving developer communities and our internal teams, translating real-world developer experiences into actionable product insights to shape our roadmap while advocating for user needs from the inside. Design and ship high-quality open-source boilerplate templates, quickstarts, and tools that make integrating observability seamless across AI native workflows, next-gen platforms (Vercel, Supabase, etc.), and cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure). Who You Are: A builder with approximately 10+ years of software engineering experience, ideally having shipped applications from scratch or worked within an early-stage startup environment where you've worn multiple hats. An AI-fluent developer who natively leverages AI coding assistants and rapid-prototyping tools as a core part of your regular, day-to-day development workflow. Multi-stack familiar, comfortable writing an

Senior Mid-Market Account Executive As a Senior Mid-Market Account Executive on our Mid-Market Sales team, you will assist in Datadog’s overall business growth by strategically engaging and closing net-new customers mid-to-large size markets (1000-5000HC). Senior sellers work majority autonomously following a well-defined framework and methodology, collaborate with internal stakeholders, identify the customer's unique needs, and clearly convey the value of the Datadog product. Mid-Market reps have the opportunity to grow their careers in Sales, develop as individual contributors or into leadership, and continue contributing to Datadog team success. 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, in the office three days per week, to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Focus entirely on net-new logo acquisition; proven in and committed to self-prospecting Leverage tools such as Sales Navigator and DiscoverOrg and the established framework and methodology in place Strategically prospect into Chief Technology Officers, Engineering/IT Leaders, and technical end users Manage complex and lengthy deal cycles autonomously Collaborate seamlessly across the business including with SDRs to drive top of funnel activity, with Sales Ops, Engineering, Project Management, and more Manage the full sales cycle, including negotiations and on-site technical demonstrations Leverage the ecosystem, network, partners environment </ul

Datadog is seeking a highly motivated Senior Corporate Development Lead to drive our AI product strategy, build strong relationships across the founder and VC ecosystem, and support high-impact initiatives including acquisitions, venture investments, and startup partnerships. You will be part of a small, high-visibility team that reports directly to Datadog’s Founder/CEO. The ideal candidate is passionate about AI and developer tools, comfortable rolling up their sleeves, and excited to operate in a fluid, technically demanding environment. You will support evaluations, source promising AI startups, collaborate closely with internal product and engineering leaders, and help position Datadog as the preferred partner for the next generation of founders. This role is ideal for someone who is hungry for increased responsibility, operates with authenticity and creativity, and prioritizes the company’s interests. 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 Datadog’s AI product strategy by analyzing emerging technologies, market opportunities, and competitive dynamics. Source high-potential AI startups for acquisition, investment, or partnership, and build a strong presence across the founder and VC ecosystem. Attend meetups, conferences, and ecosystem events to expand Datadog’s visibility and pipeline opportunities. Drive workstreams across diligence, valuation, financial modeling, strategic assessment, and internal recommendations. Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to evaluate build/buy/partner opportunities aligned with Datadog’s AI roadmap. Support negotiation processes, including term sheets and partnership structures. Collaborate on integration planning with cross-functional partners after acquisitions or strategic de

Databases and data stores are at the center of our applications, for legacy applications and modern AI applications alike. Yet most observability and optimization approaches lack a holistic approach or application context. Datadog has been on a mission to revolutionize how databases are operated, flipping what is often seen as a black box of complexity prone to security and performance risks, into a well oiled machine enabling our builders and businesses to move faster and smarter. We’re looking for an experienced product manager passionate about joining this mission to lead this product opportunity. 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 ambitious investments that rethink how customers operate and get value from their databases, diving into ambiguity, working with our customers on new models, and shipping new products and changes to existing products. Develop a deep understanding of our customers and their issues, what problems are really behind those issues, and how we can improve how databases are operationalized across SRE teams, DBAs and application developers. Continuously refine your understanding of database management systems and datastores from SQL and OLTP based to NoSQL e.g. AWS RDS, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, MySQL, etc Define, build and launch the next generation of database monitoring and optimization capabilities for our customers Join a talented engineering team with a record of disrupting observability approaches to further the mission of demystifying and optimizing databases using your team’s creativity, alongside your customers’ problems, as a key resource. Collaborate with other Product teams in Datadog to maintain and improve all Datadog products, improve the seamless integration across th

Senior Partner Program Manager - Strategic Initiatives Remote (US) or New York, New York, USA We're looking for an experienced Senior Partner Program Manager to design, launch, and scale strategic initiatives across Datadog's Channels & Alliances organization. In this role, you'll identify opportunities where targeted partner programs can accelerate business outcomes beyond Datadog's standard partner framework and lead those initiatives from concept to execution. This includes driving growth in a specific region, accelerating adoption of a new product, enabling a strategic collaboration with a partner, or creating a new referral or incentive motion. You'll be responsible for turning partner business opportunities into scalable programs. You'll work closely with partner leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to evaluate opportunities, align teams, execute, and continuously iterate based on performance. This is a highly visible role that requires strategic thinking, strong execution skills, and the ability to influence across a complex organization. This is an opportunity to join a high-growth cloud software company and help shape the future of Datadog's partner ecosystem. 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 Identify opportunities to accelerate partner-driven growth through targeted programs and initiatives that complement Datadog's standard partner framework Design, launch, and scale custom partner programs that support strategic business priorities, including regional growth initiatives, new product adoption, partner incentives, referral motions, and strategic collaboration agreements Partner with stakeholders across Channels & Alliances, Sales, Deal Desk, Legal, Finance, Operations, Marketing, Product, and Enablement teams to bring p

As a Cloud Security Engineer you will partner with different stakeholders across the organization to secure our cloud infrastructure. As part of the Platform Security organization we secure the building blocks of Datadog’s applications and infrastructure. We do this by building solutions to solve systemic risks and combine an approach of making the secure path easier and the insecure path harder to secure and accelerate the business. We regularly partner with the most bleeding edge internal products and are working to solve and build solutions to enable our safe usage of AI. We also develop AI based solutions to enable security at scale. We are looking for a Service Mesh and Kubernetes focused security specialist to help round out an incredibly strong infrastructure security focused group. You will rotate through a variety of internal projects and gain deep exposure to Datadog’s infrastructure. 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: Solve our most challenging cloud infrastructure security problems starting with our core building blocks and golden paths. Enable our engineers to build and ship secure solutions quickly. Build and extend Datadog’s Platform Security solutions. Leverage and influence the direction of Datadog’s products to secure our infrastructure, and provide internal feedback that enables our teams to improve the products for ourselves and our customers. Who You Are: You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent professional experience. Passionate about advocating for and implementing solutions to complex problems, at-scale, in a large multi-cloud environment. You don’t want to just provide security recommendations, you want to help imple

Today, everyone from PMs to Sales to SREs uses AI to query their business data - but every answer is a one-off with no governance, no consistency, and no visibility for data teams. We're building the system that fixes this: a context layer that learns from existing data tools driving high quality and consistent answers, an AI-powered query experience, full governance for data teams, and rich analysis surfaces to present and share the results. You'd be building a zero to one product of what we believe will become a major new product line for 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 Drive the product vision and roadmap spanning the Data agent experience, the semantic/context layer, governance console, chat experience and analysis surfaces (dashboards, notebooks, sheets) Own the end-to-end product lifecycle from discovery to launch, working with a cross-functional team of engineers, designers and other PMs Deeply understand the needs of two key personas: data teams (who govern and curate) and data consumers (PMs, engineers, SREs, executives who ask questions) Design the context and governance layer that makes AI-powered analytics trustworthy - including auto-generation from existing BI tools, eval frameworks, confidence scoring, and self-improvement loops Define how observability data and business data come together to serve unique use cases Engage directly with early customers and internal dogfooding users to iterate on accuracy, usability, and trust Independently research the competitive landscape across legacy BI vendors, warehouse-native analytics, AI-first startups, and AI labs Work on the product pricing Work with GTM teams to define positioning, packaging, and the path to displacing entrenched tools Who you are 5+ years of experience

Datadog's integrations are the connective tissue between our platform and the technologies our customers run in the real world. As a Sr. PM on the Agent Integrations team, you will own the vision, prioritization, and execution for 100+ integrations that run directly inside the Datadog Agent from foundational infrastructure (MySQL, Kafka, Kubernetes) to the rapidly growing landscape of self-hosted AI and on-premise enterprise technologies. This is a high-impact, breadth-first role at the intersection of infrastructure observability and the frontier of AI-native workloads. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture; the relationships it builds, the creativity it brings, and the collaboration of being together. 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 Agent Integrations roadmap. Determine which new integrations to build and which existing ones to improve, balancing customer demand, business impact, and engineering capacity across a catalog of 100+ technologies. Drive the expanding AI integration surface. Lead product strategy for self-hosted AI workloads, including LLM inference frameworks (e.g., Hugging Face TGI, BentoML), AI agents, MCP servers, and model orchestration tools, so Datadog customers can monitor every layer of their AI stack. Expand on-prem and hybrid coverage. Prioritize and execute new integrations for on-prem technologies including storage systems, HPC schedulers, network devices, and legacy enterprise platforms where customers run critical workloads. Build observability for ERP systems. Define and drive Datadog's strategy for monitoring enterprise ERP platforms (SAP, Oracle EBS/Fusion, Microsoft Dynamics) covering performance, job execution health, and integration layer telemetry so enterprise customers can observe their ERP stack alongside the rest of their infrastructure. Analyze adoption and customer feedback at scale. Use data from multiple sources to

Role Overview We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer with a passion for building platform features that impact UX at a massive scale. As a member of AAA, you’ll work across a breadth of problem spaces on deeply technical topics, such as governance, access, teams, identity, and multi-org UX. You’ll lead design for features that mediate how Datadog’s biggest customers use the platform and manage what their employees can see and do. 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 AAA is a highly technical product environment, where designers strive to understand the technical workflows, constraints and opportunities within this domain. As you develop subject matter expertise, you’ll use your influence as a Senior designer to drive the roadmap and vision. Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with your PM and engineering partners to understand customers’ pain points, explore solutions, and build UI that ships. Prototyping in code creates the opportunity to share high-fidelity ideas at early stages, even if the design itself is low-fidelity. Tight feedback loops let your team iterate quickly, building towards an ideal vision for the best possible experience while you ship incremental steps towards that goal. In addition to making the work, you will also share your work with stakeholders at varying levels of seniority, all the way up to executive leadership level. Your crisp context setting and clear description of your solution will help people understand your choices and sell them on your proposal. Your work will up-level the quality bar for what an admin experience can look like. While you’ll leverage Datadog’s design system where it makes sense, you won’t let it prevent broad exploration of different design patterns in the service of finding the optimal solu