Senior Product Manager - Database AI Optimization

Datadog; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Datadog is seeking an experienced Product Manager in New York, NY to lead innovative product opportunities in database monitoring and optimization. You will have the opportunity to improve customer interactions with databases and collaborate with talented engineering teams.

This hybrid role values creativity and teamwork, placing a significant emphasis on using AI tools to drive product quality and efficiency. Ideal candidates have at least 5 years of experience and a strong understanding of database management systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Product Manager in cloud or developer tools.
• Experience building AI products including evaluations.
• Comfortable using AI tools for research and building.

Responsibilities

• Lead investments that get value from databases.
• Develop an understanding of customers and their issues.
• Define and launch next generation database monitoring capabilities.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and maintain Datadog products.
• Define Go-To-Market strategy for database monitoring.

Skills

Experience with AI tools

Product management in cloud or developer tools

Excellent communication skills

Understanding of database management systems

Job description

Databases and data stores are at the center of our applications, for legacy applications and modern AI applications alike. Yet most observability and optimization approaches lack a holistic approach or application context. Datadog has been on a mission to revolutionize how databases are operated, flipping what is often seen as a black box of complexity prone to security and performance risks, into a well oiled machine enabling our builders and businesses to move faster and smarter.

We’re looking for an experienced product manager passionate about joining this mission to lead this product opportunity.

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:

• Lead ambitious investments that rethink how customers operate and get value from their databases, diving into ambiguity, working with our customers on new models, and shipping new products and changes to existing products.
• Develop a deep understanding of our customers and their issues, what problems are really behind those issues, and how we can improve how databases are operationalized across SRE teams, DBAs and application developers. Continuously refine your understanding of database management systems and datastores from SQL and OLTP based to NoSQL e.g. AWS RDS, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, MySQL, etc
• Define, build and launch the next generation of database monitoring and optimization capabilities for our customers
• Join a talented engineering team with a record of disrupting observability approaches to further the mission of demystifying and optimizing databases using your team’s creativity, alongside your customers’ problems, as a key resource.
• Collaborate with other Product teams in Datadog to maintain and improve all Datadog products, improve the seamless integration across them, and help customers identify incidents root cause and navigate through telemetry faster
• Partner with marketing and cross functional teams including sales, customer success and support teams, to define Go-To-Market plans and strategy for database monitoring, data observability and APM features
• Continuously evolve the product practice and the product itself with the latest technologies, including AI tools and agents

Who You Are:

• You’re comfortable using AI tools for research and building
• You have experience building AI products and evals including manual evaluations, golden data sets, LLM as judge, to measure and improve AI product quality
• You have 5+ years of experience as a Product Manager in cloud or developer tools, ideally including intimate experience with databases
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills and the willingness to present and defend your ideas t