Senior Product Manager - Search

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

Benefits offered by this job

Generous benefits package

New hire stock equity

Continuous career development

Inclusive workplace culture

Job summary

Datadog is seeking a Senior Product Manager for its Search team in New York, NY. You will lead the development of user-facing search components and backend search ranking systems. This role involves closely collaborating with AI teams and directly engaging with customers to optimize search experiences and drive data-informed decisions.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of product experience and a strong understanding of search, ranking, and recommendation systems. Competitive salary and benefits package is offered, reflecting your skills and experience.

Qualifications

• Experience with search, ranking, or recommendation systems.
• Familiarity or interest in MCP servers and agentic UX.
• Strong technical background in large-scale data systems.

Responsibilities

• Define AI agents' context and tools for user queries.
• Monitor KPIs for search quality and productivity.
• Engage with customers to understand search journeys.

Skills

Search experience

Ranking systems knowledge

Recommendation systems understanding

Strong verbal and written communication

5+ years product experience

Job description

Senior Product Manager - Search

Datadog’s Search team helps users – both human and agents – find answers to their questions.

Search is a critical function in Datadog, and touches many product surfaces: the query editors in product homepages and dashboards, search bars for finding relevant assets, the global cmd+k navigation search, and the MCP tools that our Bits AI agent uses to respond to natural language prompts. Search is a full‑stack team: owning user-facing search components, backend search ranking systems, and machine learning models to produce recommendations.

The Search team is relatively new, and still growing. We have recently built out agentic search tools, and we are looking for a leader to help us expand to ambitious orchestration systems that deliver accurate results, and proactive recommendations across both keyword and semantic search. Beyond this, you’ll have room to influence how Datadog thinks about Search as a strategic surface.

What you’ll do

• Define and deliver how Datadog's AI agents discover the right context and tools to answer natural‑language questions accurately and at scale
• Stay on top of industry trends in UI and agentic search experiences and capabilities
• Collaborate with Applied AI teams to integrate ranking, personalization, and recommendation models that scale across both human and agentic users
• Define and monitor KPIs for search quality, adoption, and downstream impact on user productivity; use them to drive data‑informed decision making
• Engage directly with customers and internal product teams to deeply understand search journeys across query editors, global navigation, and natural‑language agent interfaces

Who you are

• You have experience with search, ranking, or recommendation systems
• You are familiar with or very interested in MCP servers and differences between human and agentic UX
• You have a sharp eye for design and strong opinions on the micro‑interactions—keyboard navigation, autocomplete behavior, loading states—that separate a good search experience from a great one
• You have a strong technical background, and sense of the day in the life of an engineer operating large‑scale data systems
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills and the willingness to present and defend your ideas to technical stakeholders and executives alike
• You have 5+ years product experience

Benefits and Growth

• Generous and competitive benefits package
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
• Employee‑focused best in class onboarding
• Internal mentor and cross‑departmental buddy program
• 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.

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

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.