Director, Product Management - Infrastructure… at Datadog · New York…

The Infrastructure Monitoring organization at Datadog is responsible for delivering the products that give engineering teams complete visibility into the health and performance of their infrastructure — from hosts and containers to cloud-native and hybrid environments. We are looking for a Director of Product Management to lead and shape the roadmap and delivery of our Infrastructure Monitoring product capabilities at Datadog in the AI era. In this role, you will bring a combination of technical expertise, product management experience, and a deep understanding of infrastructure and observability to help Datadog grow it’s leadership position in infrastructure monitoring. You will lead a team of product managers and collaborate with senior leadership in product, engineering and design. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You'll Do: Own the vision and strategy for Infrastructure Monitoring products, ensuring alignment with overall company goals and customer needs. This will include managing a subset of the infrastructure product portfolio.. Identify new opportunities for infrastructure product 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 AI-powered product innovation by identifying and embedding AI capabilities into the infrastructure monitoring product suite and support customers transformation with AI Work closely with customers and stakeholders to deeply understand their pain points, ensuring that infrastructure monitoring solutions are delivering tangible value and solving real-world problems. 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. Lead and mentor a team of product managers, helping them grow and advance their careers while ensuring the delivery of high-quality, customer-impactful features. Promote a product-first mindset across the organization, ensuring that the user experience and business value are central to every product decision. Foster a culture of innovation and excellence in infrastructure product development, ensuring that Datadog remains the leader in infrastructure observability. Who You Are: Experience: You have proven experience in B2B SaaS product management, with a track record of successfully leading the development and delivery of AI-driven products and solutions. Domain expertise: Deep understanding of infrastructure, cloud platforms, DevOps, or observability — you can engage credibly with customers, engineers, and architects on technical topics including cloud-native and AI architectures, Kubernetes, compute/storage/networking, and distributed systems Proven leadership: Track record of building and developing high-performing PM teams; experience managing both ICs and senior PMs Strategic and execution-oriented: Ability to set a long-term product vision while driving rigorous near-term execution across a complex, multi-team product area Customer obsessed: You have strong instincts for understanding customer pain and translating it into product strategy that creates real value Data-driven: Comfortable defining KPIs, analyzing product usage, running experiments, and making prioritization decisions under uncertainty Strong communicator: Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to influence senior engineering stakeholders and align cross-functional teams — and present confidently to executives and customers Collaborative and low-ego: You lead with empathy and directness, take ownership, and thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment Preferred Experience: Experience at a monitoring, observability, or cloud infrastructure company Background in software engineering, SRE, or platform architecture Familiarity with Kubernetes, eBPF, OpenTelemetry, or cloud cost optimization Experience managing a PM org through a period of rapid product or company scaling If you're passionate about shaping the future of infrastructure observability and driving innovation at scale, we'd love to hear from you! Datadog values people from all walks of life. We know not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That’s okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your experience, we encourage you to apply. Benefits & Growth: New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions Free, global Spring Health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+ Competitive global benefits Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog. #LI-Hybrid Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan. The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: $300,000—$385,000 USD About Datadog: Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. 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