Staff Product Manager, Observability Data Platforms

Datadog; New York (NY); On-site; USD 244,000 - 305,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

ESPP

Professional development

Mentor program

Inclusive culture

Inclusion talks

Spring Health

Job summary

Datadog is seeking a Staff Product Manager for the Observability Data Platform (ODP) to lead foundational platform bets that reshape telemetry economics and platform costs. You will drive cost-to-serve insights, pricing discussions, and cross‑functional alignment with engineering, FinOps, and product teams.

You’ll shape product direction, defend sizing and impact estimates, and communicate complex architecture to executives and customers.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Product Management experience.
• Bachelor's degree in CS, Engineering, or equivalent.
• Experience with telemetry, observability, or platform-scale products is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Set product direction across foundational platform bets by defining problems and outcomes with engineering.
• Collaborate on the long-term cost-and-value architecture of the platform.
• Develop and defend sizing and impact estimates for large, multi-team programs.
• Anticipate market trends in telemetry economics and agentic observability.
• Understand cost-to-serve by partnering with engineering on unit economics.
• Surface customer-positive angles in cost work led by optimization teams.
• Deliver concise written and verbal communication to executive, engineering, and customer audiences.

Skills

Strong systems thinker

Cross-org synthesizer

Sizing and impact estimation chops

Collaborative and opinionated

Ambiguity tolerance

Product management

8+ years PM experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent

Job description

Staff Product Manager on Datadog's Observability Data Platform (ODP) will lead product management for a portfolio of foundational platform bets—work that changes the cost structure and capability of the platform itself, not the cost of any single feature.

Among ODP’s portfolio of engineering work are efforts to bring the platform's unit cost down meaningfully each quarter, plus a slate of architectural bets aimed at order‑of‑magnitute cost reduction over the longer horizon. The work you'll lead reshapes how Datadog ingests, routes, and exposes telemetry value to customers—and is foundational to how every product team in Datadog's ecosystem will think about telemetry economics going forward.

This role reports to the Group Product Manager of ODP.

What You'll Do

• Set product direction across foundational platform bets by defining problems and desired outcomes, partnering with engineering to determine slices of work that drive value in phases for users and the business.
• Collaborate on the long‑term cost‑and‑value architecture of the platform—how value‑aware telemetry, innovative data engines, and customer‑facing cost stories fit together over multiple quarters.
• Develop and defend sizing and impact estimates for large, diffuse programs—credibly produce the analysis that engineering leadership and pricing partners need to make resourcing and prioritization calls.
• Anticipate and communicate market trends in telemetry economics and agentic observability and how they shape platform investment.
• Develop deep understanding of cost‑to‑serve by partnering with engineering on the unit economics of the data platform and bring that cost‑profile understanding into collaborative discussions with product verticals about customer‑facing trade‑offs.
• Surface the customer‑positive angles in cost work that engineering‑led optimization tickets don't currently make visible.
• Deliver concise written and verbal communication to executive, engineering, and customer audiences; clarify complex architecture, cost‑to‑serve, and product priorities for each.

Who You Are

• Strong systems thinker: you connect cause and effect across the data platform—from intake through query—and hold the throughline as scope evolves.
• Cross‑org synthesizer: you read across staff engineers, consuming product teams, sales / FinOps, and finance, and turn diffuse signals into a defensible product position.
• Sizing and impact estimation chops: you can build a credible cost‑and‑impact model for work that spans multiple engineering teams and defend it in front of engineering leadership.
• Collaborative and opinionated: you build trust quickly with engineers, PM peers, designers, and commercial partners; bring strong product opinions and adapt when new evidence emerges.
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity and breadth: you thrive in foundational platform work where the scope shapes itself over multiple quarters.
• Product management skill: you have 8+ years of Product Management experience or a track record showing Staff‑level capabilities in related software roles.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We know not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That’s okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your experience, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits & Growth

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

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:
$244,000—$305,000 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.

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