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Manager I, Engineering - Applied AI/ML Product Analytics Suite

Datadog· Engineering
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About the role

Datadog’s Product Analytics suite spans Product Analytics, Session Replay, Feature Flags, and Experimentation. The Applied Scientists team focuses on AI/ML capabilities to make the suite proactive and agentic by default, with greenfield research, prototyping, and productionization. The Engineering Manager will lead a team of Applied Scientists to define technical vision, grow the team, and deliver AI capabilities across the suite.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow a team of Applied Scientists researching, prototyping, and industrializing AI/ML capabilities across the suite
  • Define the technical vision and roadmap for the suite’s agentic and proactive AI/ML capabilities: event understanding, conversational analytics, insight reporting, and session-replay issue detection
  • Stay hands-on as a technical contributor and reviewer, helping the team move from research prototypes to production-grade capabilities
  • Shape how AI capabilities get built and delivered across the suite, partnering closely with product and engineering leadership
  • Hire and onboard Applied Scientists as Datadog scales its investment in applied AI/ML
  • Represent the team’s progress and priorities to stakeholders across Product Analytics and Datadog’s broader AI efforts

Qualifications

  • An experienced technical leader with a background in applied AI/ML, ideally with hands-on research or applied science experience of your own
  • A people manager, whether established or early in your management journey, backed by strong technical credibility
  • Comfortable operating in greenfield ambiguity: defining direction and structure where little exists yet, rather than executing against an established roadmap
  • Experience taking ML/AI capabilities from research prototype to production, ideally in an analytics, NLP, or user-behavior domain
  • A clear communicator who can translate technical AI/ML concepts for product and engineering stakeholders
  • Motivated by early-stage, high-impact work and comfortable with the ambiguity that comes with it

Skills

Required:Applied AI/ML leadershipPeople management

Benefits

  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
  • Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
  • Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
  • An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
  • Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions
  • Free, global mental 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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