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Staff Product Manager - Self Improving Software

Datadog· Product Management
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New York, NY$244k - $305kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Staff Product Manager leading a new AI-native product family focused on closed-loop observability, automation, and AI-assisted product decisions. Hybrid work model in New York, with broad collaboration across engineering, design, product analytics, and pricing to bring a zero-to-one product to customers.

Responsibilities

  • Set product direction for a new product family by defining problems and outcomes, partnering with engineering to prove value in phases.
  • Own product decisions at every loop stage: signal trust, opportunity ranking, proposed changes, evidence, and the next cycle memory.
  • Define the autonomy ladder and controls for automated changes, including what stays manual or auto, and audit trails for customers.
  • Set quality bar for non-deterministic product; build evaluation sets and determine ship readiness under schedule pressures.
  • Recruit design partners, participate in triage, and translate learnings into roadmap and post-launch iterations.
  • Develop and defend sizing, impact, and cost-to-serve analyses for resourcing, unit economics of inference, data platform, packaging, metering, and pricing.
  • Deliver concise written and verbal communications to executives, engineers, and customers about architecture, trade-offs, and go-to-market directions.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of Product Management experience, or track record showing Staff-level capabilities in related software roles (AI product experience preferred).
  • Shipped AI products to production with measurable field learnings and iterations.
  • Fluency in evaluating AI models and prompts; experience with evaluation sets and shipping criteria under deadlines.
  • Experience with agent failure modes, non-determinism design considerations (confidence, reversibility, blast radius, review surfaces, graceful failure).
  • Zero-to-one track record: started something with no roadmap, reached customers, and shaped or pivoted direction with rationale.
  • Ability to read across engineering, product teams, sales, FinOps, marketing, and finance to form defensible product positions.
  • Collaborative, opinionated, and comfortable with ambiguity; strong stakeholder trust-building; documented decision rationale.

Skills

Required:AI product managementEvaluation and measurementCross-functional collaboration

Benefits

  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
  • Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
  • Mentor and buddy program for networking
  • Inclusive culture and Community Guilds
  • Inclusion Talks and mental health benefits
  • Competitive global benefits (healthcare, dental, parental planning, 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and discounted ESPP)
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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