# Senior Talent Manager

**Company:** [Datadog](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/datadog)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** People Ops
**Salary:** $162k – $238k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** talent management, leadership development, career architecture, Performance Management, succession planning, internal mobility, people analytics, Data Analysis, Stakeholder Management, executive influence
**Posted:** 2026-07-15

> Senior individual contributor partnering with Engineering leadership to design and deliver high-impact talent programs including leadership development, career frameworks, performance reviews, succession planning, and internal mobility. Requires significant experience driving complex talent initiatives in fast-growing global tech organizations, strong data fluency, and ability to influence executives.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do
- Lead the design and delivery of complex talent programs for a major business division such as Engineering.
- Work on topics such as leadership capability, career architecture, performance and talent review evolution, internal mobility, and succession for critical roles.
- Partner with PBPs to frame problems, build alignment amongst senior leaders, and agree program goals, design principles, and success measures.
- Personally drive programs from concept through implementation, adoption, and iteration, remaining hands-on throughout delivery.
- Work closely with Enablement, Learning, People Analytics, and People Systems to ensure programs are scalable, measurable, and embedded into core people processes.
- Enable and support People Business Partners with clear frameworks, practical tools, and executive-ready narratives to support adoption in the business.
- Navigate complex, ambiguous, and sometimes sensitive environments, influencing without formal authority and maintaining strong relationships across teams.
- Evaluate programme effectiveness using qualitative and quantitative data, and continuously refine approaches based on business impact and feedback.

## Who You Are
- An experienced Talent or People leader with significant experience designing and delivering complex talent programmes in a fast-growing, global organisation.
- Comfortable operating at Senior Manager level, with the judgement, presence, and influence expected at Director threshold.
- Experienced partnering directly with executives and senior leadership teams on strategic people and organisational topics.
- Equally comfortable setting direction and getting into detail, able to move from strategy to execution without handing work off prematurely.
- Strong Data fluency: comfortable using qualitative and quantitative information to shape decisions, build business cases and assess impact.
- Pragmatic, structured, and outcome-focused, with a strong bias towards delivery and follow-through.
- Able to operate effectively in ambiguous environments with competing priorities and incomplete information.
- A trusted advisor who can build consensus, challenge constructively, and maintain credibility across differing perspectives.
- Clear, precise communicator, able to tailor messages for senior leaders, PBPs, and delivery teams.

## Benefits and Growth
- 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, with access to Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks
- Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
- Competitive global benefits
- 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan

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