Manager I, Engineering - Onboarding Growth

The Consulting Solutions; New York (NY); On-site; USD 187,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

New hire stock equity (RSUs)

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Continuous professional development

Job summary

The Consulting Solutions is looking for a Manager I, Engineering - Onboarding Growth to lead the Onboarding team and improve user adoption of Datadog. This role requires close collaboration with various product teams and demands strong leadership and communication skills. The successful candidate will coach engineers and drive projects to enhance new user experiences.

Offering competitive salary packages that include new hire stock equity, healthcare, and comprehensive employee benefits, the role emphasizes professional development and an inclusive culture.

Qualifications

• At least 2 years of people management experience in a software engineering or similar setting.
• Experience managing full stack development teams.
• Excellent communication skills, including delivering clear, actionable, and empathetic feedback.

Responsibilities

• Work with Product Management and Design to plan and staff projects.
• Coach and develop engineers at various levels.
• Build UX features to streamline the onboarding experience.

Skills

People management experience

Full stack development management

Excellent communication skills

Customer problem-solving

Data-driven decision making

Sense of ownership

Job description

Manager I, Engineering - Onboarding Growth

This Engineering Manager will lead the Onboarding team within the Shared Capabilities organization, setting product direction, and coaching and developing team members. They will staff and drive projects that drive new users to adopt Datadog in their organizations. From the first time a new user signs up for a Datadog trial, this team is responsible for making sure they have a world‑class setup and onboarding experience, and can realize the full value of Datadog in their organization. Onboarding owns the “front door” of Datadog, the very first experience new users and prospective customers encounter. This work is extremely important to company success – improving our onboarding process directly impacts new users’ ability to find value with Datadog quickly. This role also involves close partnerships with other product teams to deeply understand customer needs and deliver compelling first‑time user experiences.

What You’ll Do:

• Work with Product Management and Design to plan and staff projects for the Onboarding Growth team
• Coach and develop engineers at various levels
• Ensure strong cross‑team communication and design best practices around project management, code review, architecture patterns, and more
• Build UX features to streamline the onboarding and trial experience through rapid experimentation
• Build out data platforms and use that data to personalize the onboarding experience for each user
• Work directly with product teams to ensure each product has a best‑in‑class new user experience
• Create AI‑assisted setup options to make sure initial setup “just works” out of the box
• Champion the use of analytics data to analyze user behaviour and apply those insights to product UX

Who You Are:

• At least 2 years of people management experience in a software engineering or similar setting
• Experience managing full stack development teams
• Excellent communication skills, including at delivering clear, actionable, and empathetic feedback
• Product‑oriented: you put solving customer problems first and know how to ship features quickly and iterate on them
• Passionate about experimentation and using data to drive decisions
• Demonstrated sense of ownership over your team's work

Benefits and Growth:

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in‑house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Competitive global benefits

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

Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best‑in‑class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: $187,000 - $240,000 USD

Equal Opportunity at Datadog:

Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.