Manager I, Engineering
Engineering Manager leading the Onboarding Growth team at Datadog. Responsible for setting product direction, coaching engineers, building UX features, data platforms, and AI-assisted onboarding experiences to help new users quickly realize value from the platform. Requires 2+ years people management and full stack team experience.
About the job
What You’ll Do
- Work with Product Management and Design to plan and staff projects for the Onboarding Growth team
- Coach and develop engineers at various levels
- Ensure strong cross-team communication and design best practices around project management, code review, architecture patterns, and more
- Build UX features to streamline the onboarding and trial experience through rapid experimentation
- Build out data platforms and use that data to personalize the onboarding experience for each user
- Work directly with product teams to ensure each product has a best in class new user experience
- Create AI-assisted setup options to make sure initial setup “just works” out of the box
- Champion the use of analytics data to analyze user behaviour and apply those insights to product UX
Who You Are
- At least 2 years of people management experience in a software engineering or similar setting
- Experience managing full stack development teams
- Excellent communication skills, including at delivering clear, actionable, and empathetic feedback
- Product-oriented: you put solving customer problems first and know how to ship features quickly and iterate on them
- Passionate about experimentation and using data to drive decisions
- Demonstrated sense of ownership over your team's work
Benefits
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
- Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
- Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
- Competitive global benefits
- 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
Skills
Full Stack Development, People Management, Product Management, UX Design, Data Platforms, AI, Analytics, Experimentation
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