Director, Product Management - Core Platforms

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

In this role, you will bring a combination of technical expertise, product management experience, and a deep understanding of platform and shared capabilities to help Datadog grow its leadership position. You will lead a team of product managers and collaborate with senior leadership in product, engineering and design. Your scope includes driving product features shared across all Datadog but also large-scale Datadog’s platform solutions.

What it asks for · 7

• Experience : 10+ years of B2B SaaS Product Management experience, including 5+ years leading and scaling teams of Product Managers.
• Platform Product Leader : Proven track record leading large-scale platforms serving broad engineering organizations, with clear ownership of direction, roadmap, and outcomes.
• Technical Foundation : 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 : Known for clarity of priorities, disciplined product thinking, and a bias toward action in complex, ambiguous environments.
• Subject Matter Expertise : Experience at a monitoring, observability, or cloud infrastructure company with relevant technical understanding of cloud-native architectures.
• Clear Communicator : Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and align cross-functional teams.

What the job covers

• 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.

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• product18×
• platform15×
• engineering7×
• customer5×
• shared5×
• adoption4×
• business4×
• efficiency4×
• experience4×
• organization4×
• product managers4×
• technical4×
• define3×
• design3×
• features3×
• internal3×

Counted from the posting after the mission statement and the legal notices are set aside. The ones near the top are the ones a screener is looking for.

More open at Datadog

• AI Research Engineer - Datadog AI Research (DAIR)Paris, France
• AI Research Scientist - Datadog AI Research (DAIR)Paris, France
• AI Research Scientist - Datadog AI Research (DAIR)New York, New York, USA
• Area Vice President, Sales EngineeringBoston, Massachusetts, USA; Denver, Colorado, USA; New York, New York, USA; San Francisco, California, USA
• Associate Field Marketing Manager (US East and Canada)New York, New York, USA
• Associate Growth Marketing ManagerNew York, New York, USA; San Francisco, California, USA