# Director, Product Management - Infrastructure Monitoring

**Company:** [Datadog](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/datadog)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Product Management
**Salary:** $300k – $385k/yr
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Ebpf, OpenTelemetry, SaaS, AI, Observability, DevOps, Cloud Platforms, Distributed Systems, Product Roadmap
**Posted:** 2026-05-06

> Leads product vision, strategy, and team for Infrastructure Monitoring products at Datadog, driving AI innovations and observability solutions. Requires B2B SaaS PM experience, deep infrastructure/DevOps expertise, and proven leadership of PM teams.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do

- Own the vision and strategy for Infrastructure Monitoring products, ensuring alignment with overall company goals and customer needs. This will include managing a subset of the infrastructure product portfolio.
- Identify new opportunities for infrastructure product innovation and drive them from concept to execution, ensuring they have a measurable impact on customers and the business.
- Define product roadmaps and manage the prioritization of features and initiatives to ensure the team's efforts are aligned with business goals.
- Drive AI-powered product innovation by identifying and embedding AI capabilities into the infrastructure monitoring product suite and support customers transformation with AI
- Work closely with customers and stakeholders to deeply understand their pain points, ensuring that infrastructure monitoring solutions are delivering tangible value and solving real-world problems.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including engineering, design, data science, marketing, and sales to deliver infrastructure product solutions that meet customer needs and business objectives.
- Lead and mentor a team of product managers, helping them grow and advance their careers while ensuring the delivery of high-quality, customer-impactful features.
- Promote a product-first mindset across the organization, ensuring that the user experience and business value are central to every product decision.
- Foster a culture of innovation and excellence in infrastructure product development, ensuring that Datadog remains the leader in infrastructure observability.

## Who You Are

**Experience:** You have proven experience in B2B SaaS product management, with a track record of successfully leading the development and delivery of AI-driven products and solutions.

**Domain expertise:** Deep understanding of infrastructure, cloud platforms, DevOps, or observability — you can engage credibly with customers, engineers, and architects on technical topics including cloud-native and AI architectures, **Kubernetes**, compute/storage/networking, and distributed systems

**Proven leadership:** Track record of building and developing high-performing PM teams; experience managing both ICs and senior PMs

**Strategic and execution-oriented:** Ability to set a long-term product vision while driving rigorous near-term execution across a complex, multi-team product area

**Customer obsessed:** You have strong instincts for understanding customer pain and translating it into product strategy that creates real value

**Data-driven:** Comfortable defining KPIs, analyzing product usage, running experiments, and making prioritization decisions under uncertainty

**Strong communicator:** Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to influence senior engineering stakeholders and align cross-functional teams — and present confidently to executives and customers

**Collaborative and low-ego:** You lead with empathy and directness, take ownership, and thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment

## Preferred Experience

- Experience at a monitoring, observability, or cloud infrastructure company
- Background in software engineering, SRE, or platform architecture
- Familiarity with **Kubernetes**, **eBPF**, **OpenTelemetry**, or cloud cost optimization
- Experience managing a PM org through a period of rapid product or company scaling

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