Senior Product Manager - Search

About the role

Datadog's Search team helps users—both human and agents—find answers to their questions. Search is a critical function in Datadog, touching many product surfaces including query editors, search bars, global cmd+k navigation search, and MCP tools.

Responsibilities

- Define and deliver how Datadog's AI agents discover the right context and tools to answer natural-language questions accurately and at scale. - Stay on top of industry trends in UI and agentic search experiences and capabilities. - Collaborate with Applied AI teams to integrate ranking, personalization, and recommendation models that scale across both human and agentic users. - Define and monitor KPIs for search quality, adoption, and downstream impact on user productivity; use them to drive data-informed decision making. - Engage directly with customers and internal product teams to deeply understand search journeys across query editors, global navigation, and natural-language agent interfaces.

Requirements

- Experience with search, ranking, or recommendation systems. - Familiarity with or strong interest in MCP servers and differences between human and agentic UX. - Sharp eye for design and strong opinions on micro-interactions such as keyboard navigation, autocomplete behavior, and loading states. - Strong technical background and sense of the day-to-day operations of an engineer managing large-scale data systems. - Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the willingness to present and defend ideas to technical stakeholders and executives.

Qualifications

- 5+ years of product experience.

Skills

- Strong technical background. - Ability to define and deliver complex systems. - Excellent communication skills.

Benefits and Growth

- Generous and competitive benefits package. - New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan. - Continuous career development and pathing opportunities. - Employee-focused best-in-class onboarding. - Internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program. - Friendly and inclusive workplace culture.

Pay

- Competitive salary and equity package. - Variable compensation based on factors such as skills, qualifications, and experience.

Schedule

- Hybrid work model available.