Technical Program Manager II

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In the posting’s own words

About the Role Technical Program Management at Datadog operates at the intersection of engineering depth and organizational reach by driving high priority, cross-functional programs that are too complex and consequential for any single team to own. We partner with engineering on solving deeply technical problems at scale by connecting the people, decisions, and context to move Datadog's most important work forward.

What it asks for · 11

• 3+ 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
• You identified a systemic problem no one asked you to find and built the operating system to solve it
• You automated a program lifecycle or workflow that previously required manual coordination
• You have operated in observability, infrastructure, data platforms, or AI/ML environments and can speak to the technical architecture, not just the program execution
• You have managed programs with real unit economics implications - cloud cost, capacity, margin

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• technical19×
• systems11×
• engineer10×
• product10×
• build9×
• cross-functional9×
• coordination8×
• drive8×
• engineering8×
• infrastructure8×
• judgment7×
• organizational7×
• see7×
• lifecycle6×
• problem6×

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