# Manager I, Engineering - Data Visualization Explorations

**Company:** [Datadog](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/datadog)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $187k – $240k/yr
**Experience:** 2+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Frontend Frameworks, Data Visualization, Project Management, Code Review, Architecture Patterns, Incident Response, Performance Telemetry
**Posted:** 2026-05-20

> Engineering Manager leading the Data Visualization Explorations team at Datadog. Focuses on setting product direction for observability visualizations, coaching engineers, and delivering performant data experiences for core users. Requires 2+ years of people management and strong frontend skills.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do

- Work with Product Management and Design to plan and staff projects for the Data Visualization Explorations team
- Coach and develop engineers at various levels
- Ensure strong cross-team communication and design best practices around project management, code review, architecture patterns, and more
- Proactively anticipate cross-team dependencies and blockers to goals; identify opportunities to appropriately reuse or customize features across dashboards, notebooks, and product pages
- Deeply understand the needs of customers and other Datadog products; participate in customer conversations, review product briefs, read feature requests, and coach team members to adopt these practices
- Define and maintain high standards for operations practices, including bug triage and remediation, incident response, and gathering and analyzing performance telemetry for widgets

## Who You Are

- At least 2 years of people management experience in a software engineering or similar setting
- Strong TypeScript/JavaScript skills, including familiarity with frontend frameworks such as React
- Excellent communication skills, including delivering clear, actionable, and empathetic feedback
- Product-oriented mindset with focus on solving customer problems and shipping features quickly
- Passionate about data visualization and building intuitive, performant user interfaces
- Demonstrated sense of ownership over team’s work

**Bonus:** Active participant in the data visualization or software engineering community through conference talks, blog posts, open source projects, teaching/mentorship, or other practices.

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