Product Manager II - Application Performance Monitoring
Datadog · New York, NY · 3 wk ago
HybridMarketingFull-time
What you will do:
- Develop a deep understanding of APM customers, their performance challenges, telemetry workflows, and competitors
- Lead conversations with design partners and strategic customers to uncover real-world performance issues, validate product assumptions, and guide solutions from early prototypes through General Availability
- Define and deliver the next generation of APM features with engineering and design, 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
- Drive discussions with engineers, design and other PM teams by providing clearly articulated problem statements to deliver seamless cross-product experiences and unified investigative workflows
- Partner with marketing, sales, customer success, support, and other cross-functional groups to define Go-To-Market for your features
- Track adoption, retention and measure impact for your product and iterate rapidly based on data and customer conversations
Who you are:
- You have 3-5 years of experience as a Product Manager, ideally working on a developer-focused SaaS or infrastructure product
- You have experience working on 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 and defending product decisions to cross functional 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 enjoy using AI to explore ideas, quickly prototype and then validate with customers to shape the roadmap
- Bonus: Experience with cloud applications, distributed tracing, performance analysis, microservices or profiling technologies; fluency in programming languages