Description
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.
As a Senior Product Manager for APM, you will own product strategy and drive execution across Distributed Tracing, Performance Analysis, and Intelligent Troubleshooting.
Responsibilities
- Own the product strategy and long-term vision for a core area of APM, grounded in deep understanding of customers, their performance challenges, telemetry workflows, and the competitive landscape.
- Lead strategic conversations with design partners and key customers to uncover complex performance issues, validate product bets, and guide solutions from early prototypes through General Availability.
- Define and drive delivery of the next generation of APM features with engineering and design leadership, especially agentic onboarding and the out-of-the-box experience, AI-driven troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
- Make complex performance data, traces, and systems behavior understandable and actionable, even for engineers who are new to observability.
- Set direction across engineering, design, and partner PM teams by framing ambiguous problems clearly, driving alignment on trade-offs, and delivering seamless cross-product experiences and unified investigative workflows.
- Partner with marketing, sales, customer success, support, and other cross-functional groups to define and lead Go-To-Market strategy for your product area.
- Mentor and provide guidance to other product managers, raising the bar for product craft and customer-centric thinking across the team.
- Own adoption, retention, and business impact metrics for your product area, and communicate progress and strategy to senior leadership and executives.
Requirements
- You have +5 years of experience as a Product Manager, ideally working on a developer-focused SaaS or infrastructure product, with a track record of owning a product area end to end.
- You have experience leading production-level AI projects, from conception through launch and iteration, ideally involving ML-driven insights, automated workflows, or intelligent guidance in complex systems.
- You have prior engineering experience or deep expertise in modern software development and distributed systems.
- You have excellent written and verbal communication skills, and are comfortable presenting to and influencing senior and executive stakeholders.
- You are highly customer-focused, detail-oriented, and committed to high quality standards.
- You thrive in fast-moving, high-growth environments and enjoy both scaling mature products and building new ones from the ground up.
- You have experience mentoring or informally guiding other product managers.
- You enjoy using AI to explore ideas, quickly prototype, and validate with customers to shape the roadmap.
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.