Staff Competitive Intelligence Analyst

What you’ll do

• Own the recurring competitive radar for Datadog’s priority competitor set, including taxonomy, source standards, evidence quality, and update cadence.
• Produce competitive deep dives, feature-gap analyses, early-warning briefs, and opportunity assessments tied to specific product domains and leadership questions.
• Translate CompIntel findings into roadmap recommendations, product differentiation hypotheses, and Product-facing decision guidance.
• Build and maintain a central CompIntel repository with competitor profiles, source notes, comparison frameworks, evidence logs, and decision-ready briefs.
• Convert validated findings into GTM-ready handoffs for battlecards, objection handling, strategic deal narratives, and field enablement.
• Synthesize signals from Product, Engineering, Sales Engineering, Customer Success, field teams, technical communities, Advocacy programs, win/loss, customer feedback, analyst research, public competitor materials, and CABs.
• Partner with Product Management to frame competitive questions, identify decision criteria, and connect findings to roadmap and prioritization discussions.
• Partner with Technical Advocacy to incorporate practitioner, customer, technical-market, community, event, and CAB signal into competitive analysis.
• Present concise, credible recommendations to Product leadership and Product + GTM forums.
• Maintain source transparency, legal compliance, ethical research practices, and auditable methods across competitive research workflows.

Who you are

• 8+ years of experience in competitive intelligence, technical product strategy, product management, market intelligence, strategic technical research, or related enterprise software work.
• Strong technical fluency in one or more of the following areas: observability, cloud infrastructure, security, developer tooling, distributed systems or enterprise SaaS platforms.
• Comfortable reading technical documentation, changelogs, release notes, architecture diagrams, product announcements, and public competitor materials.
• Can distinguish credible technical differentiation from surface-level claims.
• Can synthesize technical, commercial, customer, and market evidence into clear recommendations.
• Strong executive writing skills and can produce concise memos, structured briefs, comparison frameworks, and leadership-ready recommendations.
• Can influence Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, and leadership stakeholders without direct authority.
• Comfortable working in ambiguous environments where the function, taxonomy, operating cadence, and stakeholder model need to be built from the ground up.
• Understand legal, ethical, and compliance considerations in competitive intelligence gathering.

Bonus points

• Experience in observability, cloud infrastructure, security, developer tooling, platform engineering, or technical enterprise SaaS.
• Experience supporting Product Management or product strategy through technical analysis, roadmap inputs, customer evidence, or market intelligence.
• Experience building a competitive intelligence program, research repository, competitor taxonomy, or recurring market-monitoring process.
• Familiarity with SCIP ethics guidance, evidence governance, source transparency, and legally approved research methods.
• Experience translating technical findings into GTM-ready enablement materials without overstating claims.