Senior Manager, Product Solutions Architecture

About the role

The Technical Solutions team at Datadog is responsible for educating potential clients and ensuring existing customers are happy and successful. The Product Solution Architecture team collaborates with Datadog customers, Product Management, Engineering, and Tech Solutions teams to architect and implement the Datadog Solution. This role requires a highly motivated, results-oriented individual to lead the team.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of expert individual contributors, working with Engineering and Product Management on their Product, who help create best practices for adoption of Datadog at scale.
• Assist in recruiting and hiring of top talent for the team.
• Mentor/coach new hires during on-boarding to ensure proper ramping of skills and capabilities.
• Ensure that your team is aligned to top company initiatives and enabled to work with various Datadog internal and external stakeholders.
• Deliver performance reviews along with collaborating on and executing individual development plans.
• Be a Trusted Advisor to Product Management by providing high quality feedback based on your field experience working closely with our Sales, Support, Partners and Customers.
• Offer guidance on architecture choices, data collection, and best practices to large Enterprise customers as they adopt these Datadog services across the organization.
• Participate in Executive Brief conversations with high profile customers and prospects about overall architecture, Observability Best Practices and industry trends.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience solving complex problems for customers and a strong knowledge of observability space.
• 5+ years of people management experience.
• Experienced in interacting and influencing key stakeholders (VPs, C level) in large organizations.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Fluent in the monitoring market domain, competition, technological shifts and customer needs.
• Proven in your ability to grow and develop a team.
• Experienced in recruiting both individual contributors and front line leaders.
• Able to think strategically and creatively about a wide variety of challenges.

Qualifications

• Experience in the monitoring market domain, competition, technological shifts and customer needs.
• Strong knowledge of observability space.
• People management experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strategic and creative thinking abilities.

Skills

• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to influence key stakeholders.
• Experience in recruiting and developing teams.
• Strategic and creative thinking.

Benefits

• Best-in-breed onboarding
• Generous global benefits
• Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Inclusive company culture, able to join our Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks

Pay

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: $211,000—$309,000 USD.

Schedule

As a hybrid workplace, the schedule is flexible to ensure work-life harmony.