# Head of Competitive Intelligence

**Company**: Datadog
**Location**: New York, NY
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $220,000-$270,000 USD
**Category**: Product Management
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Datadog is building a product-led Competitive Intelligence function to help inform product strategy, roadmap prioritization, positioning, and competitive readiness.

As the Head of Competitive Intelligence you will build and lead the CompIntel function across priority competitors and adjacent market opportunities.

You will translate competitor product evolution, technical capabilities, launches, pricing value, customer sentiment, analyst narratives, and ecosystem shifts into actionable insights for Product, GTM, Sales Engineering, Customer Success, Technical Advocacy, and leadership.

**Responsibilities**

- Own the recurring competitive radar for Datadog’s priority competitor set, including taxonomy, source standards, evidence quality, and update cadence.

- Produce competitive deep dives, feature-gap analyses, early-warning briefs, and opportunity assessments tied to specific product domains and leadership questions.

- Translate CompIntel findings into roadmap recommendations, product differentiation hypotheses, and Product-facing decision guidance.

- Build and maintain a central CompIntel repository with competitor profiles, source notes, comparison frameworks, evidence logs, and decision-ready briefs.

- Convert validated findings into GTM-ready handoffs for battlecards, objection handling, strategic deal narratives, and field enablement.

- Synthesize signals from Product, Engineering, Sales Engineering, Customer Success, field teams, technical communities, Advocacy programs, win/loss, customer feedback, analyst research, public competitor materials, and CABs.

- Partner with Product Management to frame competitive questions, identify decision criteria, and connect findings to roadmap and prioritization discussions.

- Partner with Technical Advocacy to incorporate practitioner, customer, technical-market, community, event, and CAB signal into competitive analysis.

- Present concise, credible recommendations to Product leadership and Product + GTM forums.

- Maintain source transparency, legal compliance, ethical research practices, and auditable methods across competitive research workflows.

- Lead a small, high-impact team of CompIntel analysts and engineers.

**Requirements**

- 8+ years of experience in competitive intelligence, technical product strategy, product management, market intelligence, strategic technical research, or related enterprise software work.

- Strong technical fluency in one or more of the following areas: observability, cloud infrastructure, security, developer tooling, distributed systems or enterprise SaaS platforms.

- Comfortable reading technical documentation, changelogs, release notes, architecture diagrams, product announcements, and public competitor materials.

- Ability to distinguish credible technical differentiation from surface-level claims.

- Strong executive writing skills and ability to produce concise memos, structured briefs, comparison frameworks, and leadership-ready recommendations.

- Ability to influence Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, and leadership stakeholders without direct authority.

- Comfortable working in ambiguous environments where the function, taxonomy, operating cadence, and stakeholder model need to be built from the ground up.

- Understanding of legal, ethical, and compliance considerations in competitive intelligence gathering.

**Benefits**

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

- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing

- Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking

- An inclusive company culture and the ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)

- Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions

- Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+

- Competitive global benefits

## Skills

### Required
- competitive intelligence
- technical product strategy
- product management
- market intelligence
- strategic technical research
- observability
- cloud infrastructure
- security
- developer tooling
- distributed systems
- enterprise SaaS platforms

### Nice to have
- experience in observability
- platform engineering
- technical enterprise SaaS
- experience supporting Product Management or product strategy through technical analysis
- roadmap inputs
- customer evidence
- experience building a competitive intelligence program
- research repository
- competitor taxonomy
- recurring market-monitoring process
- familiarity with SCIP ethics guidance
- evidence governance
- source transparency
- legally approved research methods

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