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

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

As the Engineering Manager for this team, you’ll lead a team of Applied Scientists through an early-stage, high-impact opportunity: defining the team’s technical vision, growing its footprint, and shaping how AI capabilities get built and delivered across the suite. This is greenfield work, both in the R&D itself and in the team you’ll grow around it.

What it asks for · 6

• 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

What the job covers

• 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

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• applied7×
• capabilities7×
• product7×
• ai/ml6×
• analytics6×
• suite6×
• technical6×
• applied scientists4×
• engineering4×
• experience4×
• ai/ml capabilities3×
• grow3×
• product analytics3×
• research3×
• agentic2×
• ambiguity2×

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