Senior Manager, Product Solutions Architecture

About the role

The Senior Manager, Product Solutions Architecture is responsible for leading a team of experts who help create best practices for the adoption of Datadog at scale. This role involves managing a team of individual contributors, assisting in recruitment and hiring, mentoring/coaching new hires, aligning the team with company initiatives, delivering performance reviews, and serving as a trusted advisor to Product Management.

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

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. - Experience with cloud platforms and monitoring tools. - Strong understanding of software development lifecycle and DevOps principles. - Ability to communicate effectively with cross-functional teams.

Skills

- Strong leadership and management skills. - Excellent problem-solving and decision-making abilities. - Ability to influence and collaborate with senior executives. - Proficiency in technical discussions and presentations.

Benefits and Growth

- 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 - An inclusive company culture, able to join our Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks - Competitive salary and equity package - Comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan