Senior Manager, Product Solutions Architecture

What You’ll Do

• Ensure the successful onboarding, training, enablement, and certification of partner technical resources
• Participate in periodic joint business planning and review sessions to ensure direct alignment between Datadog and Partner technical teams
• Collaborate internally to support Partner technical initiatives such as end-customer demonstrations and proofs of value, partner team enablement workshops, and assessment, advice, and coaching on lead practices
• Advocate on behalf of Partners’ technical concerns (use cases, feature requests, support issues) with Datadog internal teams and personnel, helping to bring those concerns to resolution
• Analyze and understand Partner service offerings on a regular basis and provide recommendations to enhance the value of those services through greater or improved adoption of Datadog features and capabilities
• Collaborate with Datadog’s product management, engineering and technical services teams to help identify and prioritize new features and capabilities
• Continuously help curate and evolve lead/best practices for Datadog platform adoption and success

Who You Are

• Possess a solid technical grounding with hands-on experience of IT Development and/or Operations
• 10-15 years of experience in a customer or partner facing technical role
• Self-starter, tech-savvy professional with solid business acumen; ability to articulate Datadog value from server room to boardroom
• Confident presentation skills
• Desired hands-on experience in two or more of the following areas:
  • Observability: Datadog, Splunk, AppD, New Relic or Dynatrace
  • Public Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP, or Alibaba
  • Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Cloud Foundry
  • Dev/Scripting: Python, Javascript, Ruby, Perl, PHP, Go
  • Config Mgmt: Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef
  • CI/CD: Jenkins, Gitlab

Bonus Points

• Previous experience working in a technical role for or supporting channel partners (Systems Integrators, Managed Services Providers)
• Previous experience using Datadog and/or other cloud monitoring tools (APM, Infrastructure, Logs, Synthetics, NPM)
• Previous experience with root-cause-analysis, troubleshooting, debugging

Benefits

• Best-in-breed onboarding
• Generous global benefits
• Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• An inclusive company culture with Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks
• Healthcare, dental, parental planning, mental health benefits, 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan