Product Operations Manager

About the role

The product operations team enables product excellence at scale at Datadog. With over thirty standalone products on a single platform, product operations drives consistency, efficiency, and quality across the organization.

What they’re looking for

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• 4+ years of experience in product operations, program management, or a related relevant experience
• Experience collaborating across multiple departments (Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, etc.) and aligning stakeholders with different priorities toward shared outcomes.
• Experience communicating with and presenting to senior leadership at the Director+ level, both in writing and live settings.
• Hands-on experience with product management and engineering tools (Jira, Confluence, GitHub, or similar), with a willingness to build and improve tooling as needs evolve.
• Experience working in ambiguous environments where you've had to define the approach, prove out value quickly, and iterate, not just maintain an existing playbook.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence rather than authority, building trust and driving outcomes across teams you don't directly manage.

Helpful, not always essential

• 2+ years of software engineering, technical product management, or other relevant technical experience.
• Experience with GitHub for CI/CD, documentation workflows, or collaboration with engineering teams.
• Proficiency in programming languages or SQL for data analysis, automation, or scripting
• Experience building or deploying AI agents or automated workflows using frameworks
• Professional use of AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor, including prompt engineering and integrating AI into day-to-day workflows.

Benefits & working conditions

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions
• Free, global Spring Health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Competitive global benefits
• Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
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• The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:
• $131,000—$164,000 USD