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Senior Product Manager - Application Performance Monitoring

Datadog
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About the role

Senior Product Manager for APM at Datadog, responsible for product strategy and execution across Distributed Tracing, Performance Analysis, and Intelligent Troubleshooting within the Observability/AI-driven enhancements of Datadog’s APM.

Responsibilities

  • Own the product strategy and long-term vision for a core area of APM, grounded in deep understanding of customers, their performance challenges, telemetry workflows, and the competitive landscape
  • Lead strategic conversations with design partners and key customers to uncover complex performance issues, validate product bets, and guide solutions from early prototypes through General Availability
  • Define and drive delivery of the next generation of APM features with engineering and design leadership, especially agentic onboarding and the out-of-the-box experience, AI-driven troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis
  • Make complex performance data, traces, and systems behavior understandable and actionable, even for engineers who are new to observability
  • Set direction across engineering, design, and partner PM teams by framing ambiguous problems clearly, driving alignment on trade-offs, and delivering seamless cross-product experiences and unified investigative workflows
  • Partner with marketing, sales, customer success, support, and other cross-functional groups to define and lead Go-To-Market strategy for your product area
  • Mentor and provide guidance to other product managers, raising the bar for product craft and customer-centric thinking across the team
  • Own adoption, retention, and business impact metrics for your product area, and communicate progress and strategy to senior leadership and executives

Qualifications

  • +5 years of experience as a Product Manager, ideally working on a developer-focused SaaS or infrastructure product, with a track record of owning a product area end to end
  • Experience leading production-level AI projects, from conception through launch and iteration, ideally involving ML-driven insights, automated workflows, or intelligent guidance in complex systems
  • Prior engineering experience or deep expertise in modern software development and distributed systems
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, comfortable presenting to and influencing senior and executive stakeholders
  • Highly customer-focused, detail-oriented, and committed to high quality standards
  • Thrive in fast-moving, high-growth environments and enjoy both scaling mature products and building new ones from the ground up
  • Experience mentoring or informally guiding other product managers
  • Enjoy using AI to explore ideas, quickly prototype, and validate with customers to shape the roadmap
  • Bonus: Experience with cloud applications, distributed tracing, performance analysis, microservices, or profiling technologies; fluency in programming languages

Skills

Required:Product managementAI / ML in product developmentDistributed systemsCommunication & stakeholder managementGo-To-Market collaboration
Nice to have:Mentoring others

Benefits

  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
  • Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
  • Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
  • An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds
  • Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
  • Free, global Spring Health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
  • Competitive global benefits
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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