Senior Manager, Business Recruiting

United States Digital Space LLC; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options/RSUs

Employee stock purchase plan

Career development opportunities

Product training

Mentor and buddy program

Inclusive workplace culture

Job summary

Datadog is seeking a strategic Recruiting leader to build and scale global recruiting teams. You will partner with HR and business leaders to drive hiring strategy, establish objectives, and close top talent across leadership roles. Strong emphasis on mentorship, stakeholder management, and data-driven decisions will be essential.

You will coach and develop teams, improve processes, and align recruiting efforts with quarterly OKRs while maintaining a fast, human, and high-impact hiring culture.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in full-lifecycle recruiting with 4+ years leading recruiting teams.
• Proven people manager with mentoring and development experience.
• Excellent cross-team collaboration and stakeholder management.
• Strong ability to sell value propositions, negotiate, and close strong candidates.
• Ability to operate with urgency and adapt to changing business needs using data.

Responsibilities

• Hire and develop high performing teams, establishing objectives and quarterly hiring goals/OKRs.
• Coach teams to prioritize diverse talent pipelines and build strong candidate relationships.
• Lead recruiting for strategic or leadership level roles when needed.
• Share training on sourcing, interviewing, and process optimization with recruiters/leaders.
• Mentor leaders across the organization and set high standards for leadership behavior.
• Use funnel metrics to drive actions and address resources and process challenges.

Skills

People management

Cross-team collaboration

Stakeholder management

Valuation of candidates

Urgency & execution

Data-driven decision making

Job description

This role will lead recruiting teams to drive hiring strategies and to partner and plan with HR teams and leaders. As an action-oriented strategic partner to business stakeholders, this role will carry the recruiting subject matter expertise for the global orgs, and will build, scale, and structure the recruiting teams for success and future growth.

*At the company, 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.*

What You’ll Do:

• Hire and develop high performing teams, while establishing and executing objectives, and leading teams to reach quarterly hiring goals and OKR’s

• Coach teams to prioritize creating diverse talent pipelines, while fostering high touch relationships with active and passive candidates

• Work across strategic or leadership level roles when needed

• Stay on top of the latest recruiting strategies and market movements, while facilitating training sessions with recruiters and leaders as it pertains to sourcing, interviewing, profile identification, process workflow, etc.

• Contribute to growing IC’s, in-team leaders, as well as other leaders throughout the organization through coaching, mentoring, and setting the bar for organizational and principled leadership

• Use funnel metrics which impact the business to drive actions and change management to address resource and operational challenges, while ensuring the recruiting process is fast, efficient, and human at all stages

Who You Are:

• Experienced in 8+ years of full-lifecycle recruiting with 4+ years leading recruiting teams

• An experienced people manager who has managed mid-sized teams and seeks out opportunities to mentor and develop others in their careers.

• Excellent cross-team collaboration and stakeholder management

• Superior at selling value proposition, negotiating and closing great candidates

• Skilled at operating with a sense of urgency in all stages of the recruiting cycle

• Able to successfully navigate and pivot to changing business needs while using data to identify and drive change

*the company values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.*

Benefits and Growth:

• Generous and competitive benefits package

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan

• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities

• Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space

• Best in breed onboarding

• Internal mentor and buddy program cross-departmentally

• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture

*Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with the company.*

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About the company:

the company is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, the company enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and the company Learning Center.

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