Senior Product Manager - Fleet and Lifecycle Management

Datadog; New York (NY); On-site; USD 192,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs stock equity

ESPP

Professional development

Community Guilds

Spring Health

Job summary

Datadog is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead the evolution of a unified fleet and lifecycle management platform across multiple product lines. You will define what it means to be a managed component, and drive expansion plans across teams with a focus on value, complexity, and readiness.

You will collaborate with engineering, design, sales, and executives to build a cohesive experience across UI, API, and automation surfaces, while championing customer needs and AI-driven tooling.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience leading complex platform products.
• Experience shipping infrastructure/DevOps/observability products, esp. fleet management or deployment tooling.
• Ability to align multiple engineering teams and drive roadmap without direct authority.
• Comfort with ambiguity and delivering incremental customer value.
• Strong technical fluency for architecture discussions with engineers.
• Experience designing products for AI-agent/automation use cases is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the vision and roadmap for a unified fleet and lifecycle platform across product lines and deployment models.
• Define what 'managed' means for each new component brought into the platform.
• Drive phased expansion by customer value, tech complexity, and readiness.
• Partner with engineering leads to align on architecture principles for diverse components.
• Represent customer voice for a UI and AI-agent/automation driven platform.
• Build business case, define success metrics, and communicate trade-offs to stakeholders.
• Engage with customers and design partners to validate priorities and de-risk roadmap bets.

Skills

5+ years PM

Platform-level products

Infrastructure/DevOps/Observability

Cross-functional leadership

Strong communication

AI/automation exposure

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

About the Role

Datadog is looking for a Senior Product Manager to help lead the evolution of our fleet and lifecycle management platform, the product surface that gives customers visibility into, and control over, the observability software running across their infrastructure.

This platform manages the deployment lifecycle for core observability agents and OpenTelemetry collectors running on customer hosts and Kubernetes clusters. The Senior PM will expand the scope of the platform to additional software components, making it the single place customers go to see everything running in their environment, at any version, in any deployment model, and to manage it remotely and safely at scale, for both human operators and, increasingly, AI agents acting on their behalf.

This is a high-visibility, cross-functional role. You'll partner with multiple engineering teams and be responsible for defining and delivering a coherent, unified platform experience across UI, API, and MCP for customers.

What You'll Do

• Own and evolve the product vision and roadmap for a unified fleet and lifecycle management platform spanning multiple product lines and deployment models.

• Define what "managed" means for each new software component as it's brought into the platform, balancing consistency of experience with the realities of each component's operational model.

• Drive a phased expansion plan, sequencing new components onto the platform based on customer value, technical complexity, and dependency readiness.

• Partner closely with engineering leads across several teams to align on shared architecture principles to support disparate software components.

• Represent the voice of the customer for a platform that must work equally well for human operators using a UI and for AI agents/automated tooling operating programmatically.

• Build the business case, define success metrics, and communicate roadmap and trade-offs to engineering, design, sales, and executive stakeholders.

• Stay closely connected to customers and design partners to validate priorities and de-risk major roadmap bets.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of product management experience, with a track record of owning complex, technical, platform-level products.

• Experience shipping infrastructure, DevOps, IT operations, or observability/monitoring products, ideally involving fleet management, configuration management, or software lifecycle/deployment tooling.

• Demonstrated ability to build product direction across multiple engineering teams with differing priorities, and to drive alignment without direct authority.

• Comfort operating in ambiguity, defining scope and sequencing capabilities that deliver customer value incrementally.

• Strong technical fluency; you don't need to write code, but you should be comfortable discussing architecture trade-offs with engineers.

• Experience designing products for emerging AI-agent/automation use cases is a strong plus.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; you can distill a sprawling, multi-team initiative into a clear narrative for different audiences.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

Bonus Points

• Experience with Kubernetes-based deployment models and operator patterns.

• Experience with remote configuration or feature-flagging infrastructure at scale.

• Familiarity with BYOC (bring-your-own-cloud) or customer-hosted software deployment models.

Benefits and Growth

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

• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing

• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)

• Free, global Spring Health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+

• Competitive global benefits and giving programs

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: $192,000 — $240,000 USD

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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