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DatadogDatadogNew York, NY

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.

187k – 240k
Hybrid5+ YOEEngineering Management

About the role

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 DevelopmentPeople ManagementProduct ManagementUX DesignData PlatformsAIAnalyticsExperimentation
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