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Senior Technical Program Manager

Datadog· Engineering
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New York, NY$184k - $230kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Technical Program Manager at Datadog focusing on cross-functional, high-impact programs at scale. Drives automation, AI-powered tooling, and end-to-end lifecycle management across multiple engineering orgs and business functions in a hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities

  • Own large cross-functional programs spanning multiple engineering orgs, product, and business functions
  • Proactively surface systemic risks, cross-pod dependencies, and organizational friction before they become escalations
  • Build and maintain SVP-level visibility through tracked KPIs on Datadog’s highest-priority initiatives
  • Uses technical credibility, trusted relationships, and product domain expertise to bridge gaps between functions where misalignment is expensive
  • Identify repeatable program archetypes and engineer the lifecycle end-to-end with AI solutions; the goal is to make the program run itself
  • Build automation that reduces the need for coordination, eliminating program overhead so engineers and PMs spend time only on work requiring human judgment
  • Contribute to the TPM toolkit: AI-powered risk synthesis, dependency tracking, stakeholder mapping, and program templates
  • Drive the shift from manual coordination to self-executing program infrastructure
  • Lead programs across four archetypes: deep technical, large cross-functional, product delivery, and operational
  • Accelerate alignment by removing friction and overhead, not by adding process
  • Hold the judgment call on when to escalate, when to slow down, when a technical decision has organizational implications
  • Own outcomes, not activities - your value is measured by what ships and what never had the chance to become a problem

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of technical program management at a high-growth technology company
  • Demonstrated ability to drive large, ambiguous, cross-functional programs to completion with minimal direction
  • Engineering credibility earned through hands-on experience with technically complex domains — observability, infrastructure, data platforms, or AI/ML systems including model training pipelines, ML infrastructure, and GPU compute
  • You can go deep on architecture and system design, push back on technical decisions, and hold your own in the room with staff engineers and senior ICs
  • Track record of earning trust with senior engineering and product leadership - not through title, through judgment
  • Strong written and verbal communication; comfortable owning the narrative at VP+ levels
  • Active AI practitioner, you use AI tools in your daily work and can demonstrate how they’ve changed your leverage
  • You have built something, a tool, a template, an automated workflow, that other people use

Skills

Required:Technical program managementAI/ML systemsSystem architecture and designCross-functional leadership

Benefits

  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
  • Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
  • Assigned TPM mentor and engineering buddy program for learning and relationship building
  • An inclusive company culture, active Community Guilds, in-person team summits, local office programming
  • Competitive global benefits; free, mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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