# Director, Product Management - Core Platforms

**Company:** [Datadog](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/datadog)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Product Management
**Salary:** $300k – $385k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Product Management, Platform Product Management, B2B SaaS, Cloud-Native Architectures, Data Infrastructure, NoSQL, SQL, In-Memory Stores, Compute/Storage/Networking, Metrics And Analytics, Team Leadership, Roadmapping
**Posted:** 2026-05-26

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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