Developer Growth Social Lead — Builder & Voice

Datadog; New York (NY); On-site; USD 139,000 - 164,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Dental

Parental planning

Mental health benefits

401(k) match

Paid time off

Fitness reimbursements

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Datadog is seeking a growth-focused storyteller to own the voice and publishing cadence for its developer channels, shaping how developers engage with the brand. You’ll expand reach across platforms and convert engineering work into compelling content, with a data-driven attribution model guiding trials and signups.

This builder role sits in the Product org, collaborating with product and engineering peers to move fast, measure impact, and grow a technical audience at scale.

Qualifications

• Background is open. Tech, consumer, sports, entertainment, media. It doesn't matter whether you came from engineering, growth, marketing, B2C, or something unrelated.
• Preferred: short-form video you produced yourself, an existing audience, prior work with a technical or enthusiast audience, comfort on camera.
• You’ve grown an audience and can point to outcomes your content moved.

Responsibilities

• Own the voice, editorial standard, and publishing cadence for Datadog's developer channels (@datadogdevs on X, Datadog Developers on LinkedIn).
• Expand into Reddit, YouTube, Discord, Bluesky, dev.to, Hacker News, and other platforms as justified.
• Turn shipped engineering work into content people want to read and watch (releases, changelogs, industry news).
• Build the attribution model connecting what you publish to trials and signups.
• Run real experiments with hypotheses, readouts, and data-driven decisions.
• Lead the developer content engine around events.
• Encourage internal authors to post and feature external developers' voices.
• Track developer sentiment about Datadog and competitors and feed insights back to product and growth.

Job description

Datadog is seeking a growth-focused storyteller to own the voice and publishing cadence for its developer channels, shaping how developers engage with the brand. You’ll expand reach across platforms and convert engineering work into compelling content, with a data-driven attribution model guiding trials and signups.

This builder role sits in the Product org, collaborating with product and engineering peers to move fast, measure impact, and grow a technical audience at scale.