# Vice President, People Business Partner **Company**: Datadog **Location**: New York, New York **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: executive **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $270,000-$310,000 USD **Category**: Human Resources **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/datadog/jobs/8335703?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/vice-president-people-business-partner-87dd59e2-adf/ ## Description The team: At Datadog, the People team works closely with leaders and employees to improve how we hire, develop, and support our people as the company grows. People Business Partners combine a strong understanding of the business with sound judgment, data, and People expertise to help leaders build effective organizations and maintain a high-performing culture. The opportunity: Datadog is seeking a global Vice President, People Business Partner to lead People support for our Engineering organization. This role will manage a team of People Business Partners, including people managers and individual contributors, and serve as a key partner to our CTO and Engineering leadership team. You will set the direction for People Business Partnership across Engineering and help leaders anticipate the organizational and talent needs of a large, global technical organization. What You'll Do: - Lead and develop a global team of People Business Partners, including people managers and individual contributors, setting clear priorities, expectations, and standards for the organization - Serve as a trusted partner to the CTO and Engineering leadership team on organizational, leadership, and talent matters - Develop a deep understanding of Datadog's business, technology, Engineering organization, and the talent required to support its continued growth - Help leaders design organizations that can scale, with clear leadership structures, roles, accountabilities, and decision-making - Partner with Engineering leadership to continue driving the organization's AI transformation, including how AI changes engineering work, technical capabilities, team design, and workforce needs - Lead workforce and headcount planning across Engineering, including decisions related to organizational shape, level mix, critical capabilities, location, and allocation of talent - Advise leaders on succession planning, leadership effectiveness, performance, compensation, retention, internal mobility, and employee engagement - Anticipate organizational risks and talent needs, bringing forward clear recommendations before issues become barriers to the business - Use people and business data to identify trends, test assumptions, and influence decisions across the Engineering organization - Coach senior Engineering leaders as they build their organizations, navigate change, and strengthen the performance of their teams - Ensure Engineering's career paths, talent practices, and manager expectations remain clear, scalable, and connected to the needs of the organization - Oversee complex and sensitive employee relations matters, balancing business needs, employee experience, consistency, and risk - Partner with People Centers of Excellence and Recruiting to shape company programs and ensure they address the needs of a large, technically complex organization - Ensure core People processes,including performance feedback, talent review, compensation, workforce planning, and engagement planning,are executed effectively across Engineering - Identify systemic issues across the organization and develop scalable solutions rather than addressing the same problems team by team - Strengthen the effectiveness of the PBP team by developing its leaders, removing barriers, and creating consistent ways of working - Contribute as a member of the People leadership team and help shape broader People priorities and practices across Datadog Who You are: - An experienced People leader with at least 15 years of progressive HR or People Business Partner experience, including significant experience leading teams - Experienced managing people managers and building strong, layered People Business Partner teams - A trusted partner to C-level executives, with the judgment and credibility to influence significant organizational and talent decisions - Experienced supporting a complex, global organization through periods of significant growth and change - Experienced working with a large-scale Engineering organization; experience supporting a global Engineering population of several thousand employees is highly preferred - Comfortable working with technical leaders and able to develop a strong understanding of Engineering organizations, talent, and operating models - Deeply experienced in organizational design, workforce planning, executive succession, talent management, performance management, compensation, change management, and employee relations - Able to connect business and technology priorities to clear people plans and drive execution through others - Highly analytical and able to use data to identify patterns, challenge assumptions, and make practical recommendations - Skilled at identifying systemic issues and developing solutions that can scale across a large organization - Comfortable navigating ambiguity, competing priorities, and sensitive situations with sound judgment and calm - A strong coach who can develop executives, senior leaders, people managers, and members of your own team - Clear and direct in your communication, with the ability to influence while maintaining strong working relationships - Able to operate at the executive level while remaining close enough to the organization to understand what is happening and where intervention is needed Benefits and Growth: - Generous and competitive benefits package - New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan - Continuous career development and pathing opportunities - Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space - Best in breed onboarding - Internal mentor and buddy program cross-departmentally - Friendly and inclusive workplace culture For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - organizational design - workforce planning - talent management - performance management - compensation - change management - employee relations --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/datadog/jobs/8335703?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)