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Group Product Manager - Synthetics

Datadog
New York, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 4/25/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/11/2025

At Datadog, we're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale-trillions of data points per day-allowing for seamless collaboration and problem-solving among Dev, Ops and Security teams globally for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.

Synthetic Testing aims to preemptively detect and prevent issues from ever surfacing to end-users. Through proactive polling of APIs, network paths, critical user journeys and more, the goal is to identify degraded experience and prevent it from reaching production automatically.

In this role, you will define the vision and roadmap for Datadog's Synthetics Testing product, driving innovation to address evolving customer needs. You will develop and execute strategies to help customers automatically identify degraded experience and prevent it from reaching production.

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 a team of product managers to drive the growth and success of Datadog's Synthetics Testing products.
  • Develop a deep understanding of Synthetics Testing customers, use cases and competitors.
  • Co-define and build the next generation of Synthetics Testing features to contribute to the Datadog unified platform and make advanced use cases accessible to all Datadog users.
  • Figure out how to use new technologies to make tests creation simpler and more automated for Developers and QA teams
  • Collaborate with other Product teams in Datadog to maintain and improve Datadog products correlation and help customers identify incidents root cause and navigate through telemetry faster
  • Partner with marketing and cross functional teams including sales, customer success , support teams and your own engineering team, to define Go-To-Market plans and strategy for Synthetics Testing features

Who You Are :

  • Experience : 7 years in B2B SaaS Product Management, preferably with a developer-focused or front-end focused product, including 2 years managing a team of product managers.
  • Leadership : Demonstrated experience hiring, mentoring, and developing product managers or engineers.
  • Customer Partnership : Expertise in working on large-scale products and collaborating effectively with enterprise customers.
  • Technical Expertise : A strong technical background that fosters trust with highly technical customers, engineers, and product managers.
  • Product Development : Skilled in working with designers and engineers to launch and iterate on user-facing SaaS features, particularly in areas like administration or configuration tools.
  • Developer Focus : Experience as a software engineer or product manager for developer tools, with a deep understanding of the development process and what delights developers.
  • Cross-Functional Leadership : Success in leading complex, cross-team initiatives and delivering impactful features that span multiple products.
  • 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
  • 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 :

    234,000-$300,000 USD

    About Datadog :

    Datadog (NASDAQ : DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers' entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.

    Equal Opportunity at Datadog :

    Datadog is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and 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 more. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.

    Your Privacy :

    Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog's Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice.

    Salary : $234,000 - $300,000

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