Director, Product Management - Infrastructure Monitoring

Overview

The Infrastructure Monitoring organization at Datadog is responsible for delivering the products that give engineering teams complete visibility into the health and performance of their infrastructure: from hosts and containers to cloud-native and hybrid environments.

We are looking for a Director of Product Management to lead and shape the roadmap and delivery of our Infrastructure Monitoring product capabilities at Datadog in the AI era.

In this role, you will bring a combination of technical expertise, product management experience, and a deep understanding of infrastructure and observability to help Datadog grow its leadership position in infrastructure monitoring.

You will lead a team of product managers and collaborate with senior leadership in product, engineering and design.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table.

We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

• Experience: You have proven experience in B2B Saa S 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, Dev Ops, 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.
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