Senior Technical Program Manager

About the role

TPMs at Datadog see the problems hiding between teams, engineer away the work that shouldn’t require humans, and drive the company’s most technically complex and consequential bets to completion.Technical Program Management at Datadog operates at the intersection of engineering depth and organizational reach by driving high priority, cross-functional programs that are too complex and consequential for any single team to own. We partner with engineering on solving deeply technical problems at scale by connecting the people, decisions, and context to move Datadog's most important work forward. We build the systems and automation that make entire classes of program work self-executing.

What you'll do

• Own large cross-functional programs spanning multiple engineering orgs, product, and business functions
• Proactively surface systemic risks, cross-pod dependencies, and organizational friction before they become escalations
• Build and maintain SVP-level visibility through tracked KPIs on Datadog’s highest-priority initiatives
• Uses technical credibility, trusted relationships, and product domain expertise to bridge the gaps between functions where misalignment is expensive

What they're looking for

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• At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
• Identify repeatable program archetypes and engineer the lifecycle end-to-end with AI solutions; the goal is to make the program run itself
• Build automation that reduces the need for coordination, eliminating program overhead so engineers and PMs spend time only on work requiring human judgment
• Contribute to the TPM toolkit: AI-powered risk synthesis, dependency tracking, stakeholder mapping, and program templates
• Drive the shift from manual coordination to self-executing program infrastructure
• 5+ years of technical program management at a high-growth technology company
• Demonstrated ability to drive large, ambiguous, cross-functional programs to completion with minimal direction
• Track record of earning trust with senior engineering and product leadership - not through title, through judgment
• Strong written and verbal communication; comfortable owning the narrative at VP+ levels
• Active AI practitioner, you use AI tools in your daily work and can demonstrate how they’ve changed your leverage
• You have built something, a tool, a template, an automated workflow, that other people use

Benefits & working conditions

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Assigned TPM mentor and engineering buddy program for learning and relationship building
• An inclusive company culture, active Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups), in-person team summits, local office programming
• Competitive global benefits; free, mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• 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:$184,000—$230,000 USD