Technical Program Managers (TPMs) are responsible for our most crucial and complex projects that span technical teams domains and products at Datadog. As a TPM youll lead execution of large scale projects coordinate cross-organizational dependencies and help teams deliver and become more efficient. Datadog is growing rapidly and youd have an opportunity to solve deeply technical problems and impact our products. You can demonstrate your leadership abilities by driving decision-making and building strong relationships across the organization. The TPM team focuses on maintaining lightweight processes and continual improvements while optimizing and accelerating execution. Clear communication metrics and visibility are building blocks of our values. This opportunity would be on our Logs Management team which helps customers collect process archive explore and monitor all of their logs across modern infrastructures.
At Datadog we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds the creativity it brings to the table and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
What Youll Do:
- Manage large-scale cross-organization programs engineering improvement efforts and support product development through delivery
- Work with teams to clarify goals and deliverables; bring data to inform planning and prioritization decisions between engineering and product teams
- Help break down projects into component parts identifying and tracking dependencies and opportunities for optimization; proactively identify problems and recommend solutions before they become blockers
- Create and refine processes when necessary; maintain focus on reliability and continual improvements and automation and scaling
- Identify KPIs and success metrics collect and analyze data; make information visible
- Communicate goals status risks and impact to teams and stakeholders; you are able to adapt communications to any level
Who You Are:
- Solid technical background with educational experience in computer science an engineering discipline mathematics information systems or equivalent work experience and you enjoy learning new technologies
- You have at least 2 years of experience in technical program management in a dynamic and highly technical environment a strong track record in managing complex cross-functional projects in a cloud/SaaS environment.
- You have experience working on the software development lifecycle and delivering software to customers
- You have experience simplifying engineering workflows to improve the quality of software delivery
- You have experience working collaboratively across organizations; strong leadership and interpersonal skills experience building and fostering effective working relationships
- You have strong communication skills attention to detail and are comfortable working in an innovative environment
- You take a data-driven approach to program management; building tools collecting and analyzing data and driving stakeholder buy-in
- You have experience influencing without direct authority at senior levels internal and external to the engineering organization
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. Thats okay. If youre passionate about technology and want to grow your skills we encourage you to apply.
Benefits and Growth:
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development product training and career pathing
- Assigned TPM mentor and engineering buddy program for learning and relationship building
- An inclusive company culture active Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups) in-person team summits local office programming
- Competitive global benefits; free mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
Required Experience:
Manager