Product Manager II - AI-Driven APM & Observability

Datadog, Inc.; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Professional development

Mentor program

Inclusive culture

Inclusion Talks

Spring Health benefits

Global benefits

Job summary

Datadog is seeking a Product Manager II for APM to shape distributed tracing and performance analysis. You will collaborate with world-class engineers, designers, and partner teams to deliver AI-driven troubleshooting and scalable observability features in a hybrid work environment.

You will understand customer needs, lead cross-functional discussions, and define product experiences from prototyping to GA, tracking adoption and impact.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of Product Manager experience on developer-focused SaaS or infrastructure products.
• Experience with production-grade AI projects, ML-driven insights or automated workflows.
• Deep expertise in modern software development and distributed systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; comfortable presenting to stakeholders.
• Customer-focused, detail-oriented, and quality-focused.
• Thrives in fast-moving, high-growth environments.
• Enjoys using AI to prototype and validate with customers.
• Bonus: cloud applications, distributed tracing, performance analysis, microservices or profiling tech; fluent in programming languages.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Product management

AI projects

Distributed systems

Customer focus

Communication skills

Tools

Cloud applications experience

Distributed tracing

Profiling technologies

Job description

Datadog is seeking a Product Manager II for APM to shape distributed tracing and performance analysis. You will collaborate with world-class engineers, designers, and partner teams to deliver AI-driven troubleshooting and scalable observability features in a hybrid work environment.

You will understand customer needs, lead cross-functional discussions, and define product experiences from prototyping to GA, tracking adoption and impact.