# Senior Product Manager - Search

**Company:** [Datadog](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/datadog)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Product Management
**Salary:** $192k – $240k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Search Systems, Ranking Systems, Recommendation Systems, UI Design, Technical Background, Kpi Monitoring, Data-Informed Decision Making, Product Management
**Posted:** 2026-06-01

> As a Senior Product Manager, you will lead the Search team, focusing on AI agents, search ranking, and recommendation systems. You will define and monitor KPIs, collaborate with AI teams, and engage with customers to enhance search experiences.

## Job Description

## What you’ll do:

* Define and deliver how Datadog's AI agents discover the right context and tools to answer natural-language questions accurately and at scale
* Stay on top of industry trends in UI and agentic search experiences and capabilities
* Collaborate with Applied AI teams to integrate ranking, personalization, and recommendation models that scale across both human and agentic users
* Define and monitor KPIs for search quality, adoption, and downstream impact on user productivity; use them to drive data-informed decision making
* Engage directly with customers and internal product teams to deeply understand search journeys across query editors, global navigation, and natural-language agent interfaces

## Who you are:

* You have experience with search, ranking, or recommendation systems
* You are familiar with or very interested in MCP servers and differences between human and agentic UX
* You have a sharp eye for design and strong opinions on the micro-interactions — keyboard navigation, autocomplete behavior, loading states — that separate a good search experience from a great one
* You have a strong technical background, and sense of the day in the life of an engineer operating large-scale data systems
* You have excellent verbal and written communication skills and the willingness to present and defend your ideas to technical stakeholders and executives alike
* You have 5+ years product experience

## Benefits and Growth:

* Generous and competitive benefits package
* New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
* Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
* Employee-focused best in class onboarding
* Internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program
* Friendly and inclusive workplace culture

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: $192,000—$240,000 USD

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