Senior Manager, Business Recruiting

Xapply; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous benefits package

RSUs stock equity

Employee stock purchase plan

Career development opportunities

Product training

Best in breed onboarding

Mentor and buddy program

Inclusive workplace culture

Job summary

Datadog is seeking an experienced leader to head recruiting teams, partner with HR and business leaders, and scale the recruiting function for global growth. The role emphasizes strategic hiring, mentorship, and cross‑functional collaboration to drive diverse pipelines and fast, human hiring practices.

You will leverage data to optimize operations, coach leaders, and shape the recruiting strategy across leadership and IC roles in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in full-lifecycle recruiting with leadership exposure.
• Proven ability to mentor and develop others in their careers.
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent at selling value propositions and closing great candidates.
• Ability to operate with urgency across the recruiting cycle.
• Ability to use data to identify and drive recruitment changes.

Responsibilities

• Hire and develop high performing teams and meet quarterly hiring goals and OKRs.
• Coach teams to build diverse pipelines and maintain strong candidate relationships.
• Engage across strategic or leadership level roles as needed.
• Share and train on sourcing, interviewing, and profiling best practices.
• Mentor and set standards for organizational leadership across the recruiting function.
• Use funnel metrics to drive actions and address resource and operational challenges.

Skills

Full-lifecycle recruiting

People management

Cross-team collaboration

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Data-driven hiring

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 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.

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

Datadog 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 Datadog.

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About Datadog:

Datadog 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, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.

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