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DatadogDatadogNew York, NY

Director, Product Management - Core Platforms

Lead a 15+ person PM organization owning Datadog’s internal Core Platforms—data platforms, developer tooling, and infrastructure services that power engineering velocity and cost-efficient scale.

300k – 385k
Hybrid10+ YOEProduct Management

About the role

What You’ll Do

  • Drive Platform Adoption: Partner with engineering and product teams to ensure widespread adoption of shared platforms and Golden Paths, reducing duplication and accelerating delivery.
  • Improve Operational Efficiency: Improve developer velocity, time-to-production, and operational efficiency across Datadog’s engineering ecosystem.
  • Drive Cost and Margin Efficiency: Drive infrastructure cost efficiency, margin protection, and sustainable unit economics by maximizing platform reuse and standardization.
  • Define and Track Success Metrics: Define and track platform success metrics, including adoption of platform capabilities, reduction in internal toil, time-to-production improvements, cost efficiency per workload, and the percentage of new products built on shared platform primitives.
  • Lead and Scale the Organization: Build, mentor, and develop a multi-layer organization of Product Managers and Group Product Managers, including org design, talent development, and succession planning.

Who You Are

  • 10+ years of B2B SaaS Product Management experience, including 5+ years leading and scaling teams of Product Managers.
  • Proven track record leading large-scale internal platforms serving broad engineering organizations, with clear ownership of direction, roadmap, and outcomes.
  • Strong technical background with the ability to partner deeply with senior engineering leaders, make informed tradeoffs, and guide complex platform decisions.
  • Experienced in defining and using meaningful metrics to drive platform adoption, efficiency, and business impact.
  • Known for clarity of priorities, disciplined product thinking, and a bias toward action in complex, ambiguous environments.
  • Relevant technical understanding of cloud-native architectures, data infrastructure (NoSQL, SQL, in-memory stores), and compute/storage/networking concepts.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and align cross-functional teams.

Skills

Product ManagementPlatform Product ManagementB2B SaaSCloud-Native ArchitecturesData InfrastructureNoSQLSQLIn-Memory StoresCompute/Storage/NetworkingMetrics And AnalyticsTeam LeadershipRoadmapping

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