Staff Product Manager, Observability Data Platforms
Lead product strategy for Datadog's Observability Data Platform foundational bets focused on dramatically reducing telemetry ingestion, routing, and cost-to-serve while improving platform capabilities. Requires 8+ years PM experience, strong systems thinking, and ability to model complex multi-quarter cost and impact estimates.
About the job
What You'll Do
- Set product direction across foundational platform bets by defining problems and desired outcomes, partnering with engineering to determine slices of work that drive value in phases for users and the business.
- Collaborate on the long-term cost-and-value architecture of the platform — how value-aware telemetry, innovative data engines, and customer-facing cost stories fit together over multiple quarters.
- Develop and defend sizing and impact estimates for large, diffuse programs — credibly produce the analysis that engineering leadership and pricing partners need to make resourcing and prioritization calls.
- Anticipate and communicate market trends in telemetry economics and agentic observability and how they shape platform investment.
- Develop deep understanding of cost-to-serve by partnering with engineering on the unit economics of the data platform and bring that cost-profile understanding into collaborative discussions with product verticals about customer-facing trade-offs.
- Surface the customer-positive angles in cost work that engineering-led optimization tickets don't currently make visible.
- Deliver concise written and verbal communication to executive, engineering, and customer audiences; clarify complex architecture, cost-to-serve, and product priorities for each.
Who You Are
- Strong systems thinker: you connect cause and effect across the data platform — from intake through query — and hold the throughline as scope evolves.
- Cross-org synthesizer: you read across staff engineers, consuming product teams, sales / FinOps, and finance, and turn diffuse signals into a defensible product position.
- Sizing and impact estimation chops: you can build a credible cost-and-impact model for work that spans multiple engineering teams and defend it in front of engineering leadership.
- Collaborative and opinionated: you build trust quickly with engineers, PM peers, designers, and commercial partners; bring strong product opinions and adapt when new evidence emerges.
- Comfortable operating with ambiguity and breadth: you thrive in foundational platform work where the scope shapes itself over multiple quarters.
- 8+ years of Product Management experience or a track record showing Staff-level capabilities in related software roles.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
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
- Competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation.
Skills
Product Management, Telemetry, Observability, Unit Economics, Data Platforms, Finops, Systems Architecture, Impact Estimation
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