Manager II, Engineering - Applied AI (NorAm)

What You'll Do

• Lead and grow multiple teams of engineers, applied scientists, and managers working on AI-powered features across the Datadog platform
• Set technical vision and strategy for your area in partnership with Product
• Ship AI products end-to-end, from data pipelines and model training through evaluation, deployment, and production operations
• Coach and develop senior engineers and managers, building a culture of high performance, psychological safety, and clear feedback
• Drive collaboration across Applied AI, product, and partner engineering teams to deliver on Datadog's AI priorities
• Build evaluation and quality practices for AI systems, offline benchmarks, online metrics, and continuous improvement loops
• Own operational excellence for your teams' systems: reliability, on-call, incident response, and technical quality
• Hire and plan for organizational growth as the AI group scales
• Help shape Datadog's broader AI roadmap and promote best practices in ML engineering and career development across the organization

Who You Are

• An experienced technical leader with a strong background in AI, machine learning, or data science
• Proven track record building and shipping ML or AI-powered products in production
• Experience leading and mentoring multiple teams, including senior engineers and engineering managers
• Deep technical expertise in one or more areas: large language models, agentic systems, anomaly detection, time-series modeling, NLP, retrieval-augmented generation, or ML infrastructure
• Comfortable partnering with Product to set vision and strategy, and turning ambiguous problems into clear plans
• A strong people manager who can attract, develop, and retain top AI and engineering talent
• BS/MS/PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent professional experience