Director, Engineering - Graphing and Visualization

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In the posting’s own words

Graphing and Data Visualization is the organization responsible for how customers explore, analyze, and visualize complex data across our product. You will lead a global team spanning graphing, dashboards, data visualization, notebooks, search experiences, and emerging AI-powered interfaces, partnering closely with Product and Design to make complex data intuitive and actionable. You will shape the technical and organizational strategy for experiences that help a broad range of users work effectively with their data, including new ways for AI agents to create consistent, high quality Datadog experiences. This is an opportunity to lead a highly specialized engineering organization whose work reaches across the Datadog product while advancing how customers interact with increasingly complex data.

What it asks for · 6

• An experienced engineering leader who has led a large, multi-team engineering organization and developed engineering managers and senior technical leaders
• Experience leading engineering teams responsible for data-intensive products, visualization platforms, analytics, business intelligence, notebooks, or other products where presenting complex information clearly is central to the user experience
• A strong partner to Product and Design, with experience making technical and product decisions where usability, visual quality, and engineering architecture are closely connected
• Technically grounded, with a computer science or equivalent technical background and the ability to engage deeply on software architecture, performance, and systems tradeoffs
• Experience building performant product experiences and solving engineering challenges involving large or complex datasets, responsive interfaces, or computationally intensive workflows
• Interested in how AI-assisted development and agent-based interfaces are changing the way users create, explore, and interact with software and data

What the job covers

• Lead the Graphing and Data Visualization engineering organization, setting technical and organizational direction across graphing, dashboards, notebooks, search, data visualization, and related data exploration experiences
• Develop engineering leaders and senior engineers across a large organization, building an environment that supports strong technical execution, collaboration, and continued growth
• Partner closely with Product and Design to make complex, high-volume data understandable and actionable for users with different needs and technical backgrounds
• Guide the evolution of the systems, frameworks, and interfaces that enable teams across Datadog to build performant, consistent, and high-quality data visualization experiences
• Advance AI-powered product experiences by enabling agents and conversational interfaces to reliably create graphs, visualizations, and dynamic data experiences
• Influence product and engineering strategy across Datadog by bringing deep expertise in visualization, performance, user experience, and large-scale product engineering

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Words the posting leans on

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• product12×
• engineering11×
• technical7×
• complex6×
• data visualization5×
• interfaces5×
• users5×
• create4×
• graphing4×
• closely3×
• complex data3×
• design3×
• engineering organization3×
• large3×

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