Director, Product Management - Core Platforms

Datadog is seeking a Director of Product Management for Core Platforms to lead the internal platforms that power our global engineering organization. This is an internal-first platform leadership role, focused on enabling Datadog engineers to build, scale, and operate products efficiently and reliably.

• →Drive Platform Adoption: Partner with engineering and product teams to ensure widespread adoption of shared platforms and Golden Paths, reducing duplication and accelerating delivery.
• →Improve Operational Efficiency: Improve developer velocity, time-to-production, and operational efficiency across Datadog’s engineering ecosystem.
• →Drive Cost and Margin Efficiency: Drive infrastructure cost efficiency, margin protection, and sustainable unit economics by maximizing platform reuse and standardization.
• →Define and Track Success Metrics: Define and track platform success metrics, including adoption of platform capabilities, reduction in internal toil, time-to-production improvements, cost efficiency per workload, and the percentage of new products built on shared platform primitives.
• →Lead and Scale the Organization: Build, mentor, and develop a multi-layer organization of Product Managers and Group Product Managers, including org design, talent development, and succession planning.

• Experience: 10+ years of B2B SaaS Product Management experience, including 5+ years leading and scaling teams of Product Managers.
• Platform Product Leader: Proven track record leading large-scale internal platforms serving broad engineering organizations, with clear ownership of direction, roadmap, and outcomes.
• Technical Foundation: Strong technical background with the ability to partner deeply with senior engineering leaders, make informed tradeoffs, and guide complex platform decisions.
• Data-Driven Operator: Experienced in defining and using meaningful metrics to drive platform adoption, efficiency, and business impact.
• Execution-Oriented: Known for clarity of priorities, disciplined product thinking, and a bias toward action in complex, ambiguous environments.
• Subject Matter Expertise: Relevant technical understanding of cloud-native architectures, data infrastructure (NoSQL, SQL, in-memory stores), and compute/storage/networking concepts.
• Clear Communicator: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and align cross-functional teams.

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