# Product Manager II - Application Performance Monitoring
**Company:** [Datadog](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/datadog)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Salary:** $155K-$195K
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Product Management, Ai/Ml Product Development, Distributed Systems, Saas Product Development, Developer Tools, Go-to-Market Strategy, Customer Research, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Data Analysis, Roadmap Planning
**Posted:** 2026-06-22
> Product Manager II for APM at Datadog, defining and delivering AI-driven observability features including distributed tracing, performance analysis, and intelligent troubleshooting for developer-focused SaaS.
## Job Description
## What you will do

- Develop a deep understanding of APM customers, their performance challenges, telemetry workflows, and competitors
- Lead conversations with design partners and strategic customers to uncover real-world performance issues, validate product assumptions, and guide solutions from early prototypes through General Availability
- Define and deliver the next generation of APM features with engineering and design, especially agentic onboarding and the out of the box experience, AI-driven troubleshooting and root-cause analysis
- Make complex performance data, traces, and systems behavior understandable and actionable, even for engineers who are new to observability
- Drive discussions with engineers, design and other PM teams by providing clearly articulated problem statements to deliver seamless cross-product experiences and unified investigative workflows
- Partner with marketing, sales, customer success, support, and other cross-functional groups to define Go-To-Market for your features
- Track adoption, retention and measure impact for your product and iterate rapidly based on data and customer conversations

## Who you are

- 3-5 years of experience as a Product Manager, ideally working on a developer-focused SaaS or infrastructure product
- Experience working on production-level AI projects, from conception through launch and iteration, ideally involving ML-driven insights, automated workflows or intelligent guidance in complex systems
- Prior engineering experience or deep expertise in modern software development and distributed systems
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and are comfortable presenting and defending product decisions to cross functional stakeholders
- Highly customer-focused, detail-oriented, and committed to high quality standards
- Thrive in fast-moving, high-growth environments and enjoy both scaling mature products and building new ones from the ground up
- Enjoy using AI to explore ideas, quickly prototype and then validate with customers to shape the roadmap

**Bonus:** Experience with cloud applications, distributed tracing, performance analysis, microservices or profiling technologies; fluency in programming languages

## Benefits & Growth

- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds
- Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
- Free, global Spring Health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
- Competitive global benefits
- Healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits
- 401(k) plan and match
- Paid time off
- Fitness reimbursements
- Discounted employee stock purchase plan
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