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Senior Director, Product Management - Platforms

Datadog· Product Management
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New York, NY$280k - $350kfull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Datadog is seeking a Senior Director, Product Management for Platforms to lead internal platform initiatives that power the global engineering organization, enabling both customers and Datadog products to build, scale, and operate effectively.

Responsibilities

  • 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 efficiency per workload, and the percentage of new products built on shared platform primitives.
  • Lead and Scale the Organization: Build, mentor, and develop a multi-layer organization of Product Managers and Group Product Managers, including org design, talent development, and succession planning.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of B2B SaaS Product Management experience, including 5+ years leading and scaling teams of Product Managers.
  • Proven track record leading large-scale platforms serving broad engineering organizations, with clear ownership of direction, roadmap, and outcomes.
  • Strong technical background with the ability to partner deeply with senior engineering leaders, make informed tradeoffs, and guide complex platform decisions.
  • Data-driven operator experienced in defining and using meaningful metrics to drive platform adoption, efficiency, and business impact.
  • Execution-oriented with clarity of priorities, disciplined product thinking, and a bias toward action in complex, ambiguous environments.
  • Subject matter expertise in monitoring, observability, or cloud infrastructure with understanding of cloud-native architectures.
  • Clear communicator with excellent written and verbal skills to influence senior stakeholders and align cross-functional teams.

Skills

Required:Vision and strategy development for platform productsRoadmapping and prioritizationPlatform adoption and scalingCross-functional leadershipMetrics and success measurement

Benefits

  • Generous and competitive global and US benefits
  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
  • Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
  • Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space
  • Internal mentor and buddy program cross-departmentally
  • Friendly and inclusive workplace culture
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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