# Product Operations Manager

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

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## Description

The product operations team at Datadog enables product excellence at scale. As a Product Operations Manager, you will help the product organization do its best work by building and scaling processes, frameworks, and cross-functional workflows that enable PMs and their partners to ship effectively.

Responsibilities:

- Own and improve the full Product Development Life Cycle and drive operational excellence for product launches.

- Build AI-powered workflows and agents that automate and accelerate operational work.

- Build and maintain a single source of truth for launches giving cross-functional partners real-time visibility into what's shipping, when, and what's needed from each team.

- Drive centralized product knowledge and enablement, ensuring PMs and stakeholders have the tools, resources, templates, and context they need to succeed.

- Analyze and quantify product signals, querying product, CRM, and customer data systems to surface high-signal insights.

Minimum Qualifications:

- 4+ years of experience in product operations, program management, or a related relevant experience.

- Experience collaborating across multiple departments and aligning stakeholders with different priorities toward shared outcomes.

- Experience communicating with and presenting to senior leadership at the Director+ level.

- Hands-on experience with product management and engineering tools (Jira, Confluence, GitHub, or similar).

- Experience working in ambiguous environments where you've had to define the approach, prove out value quickly, and iterate.

- Demonstrated ability to lead through influence rather than authority, building trust and driving outcomes across teams you don't directly manage.

Preferred Qualifications:

- 2+ years of software engineering, technical product management, or other relevant technical experience.

- Experience with GitHub for CI/CD, documentation workflows, or collaboration with engineering teams.

- Proficiency in programming languages or SQL for data analysis, automation, or scripting.

- Experience building or deploying AI agents or automated workflows using frameworks.

- Professional use of AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor, including prompt engineering and integrating AI into day-to-day workflows.

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+.

## Skills

### Required
- product operations
- program management
- product development life cycle
- AI-powered workflows
- data analysis
- product management tools

### Nice to have
- software engineering
- technical product management
- GitHub
- SQL
- AI agents
- automated workflows

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