Datadog
Manager, Strategic Sourcing, AI Infrastructure & Services
New York, New York, USA
Sponsorship not specified$128k-$170kDetected 19 hours ago
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About the role
- Make an impact by partnering closely with senior technology and business leaders, owning our fastest-growing AI, neocloud, and inference spend end-to-end, and continuing to prove the value that Strategic Sourcing brings to the organization.
- We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one.
- Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence.
Responsibilities
- Own the AI spend category end-to-end, covering foundation-model and AI APIs, AI development and productivity tools, and AI-enabled SaaS (with neocloud and inference compute as an emerging area), while developing and executing category strategies aligned to business objectives
- Champion AI and automation adoption across the sourcing function by identifying tools (e.g. Claude, ChatGPT) and building repeatable workflows that make sourcing faster, smarter, and more scalable
- Lead high-value AI vendor negotiations spanning foundation-model and API agreements, AI development and productivity tools, and AI SaaS, structuring seat- and consumption-based pricing across net-new purchases and strategic renewals, and building neocloud and GPU-capacity capability as the category grows
- Partner with Engineering and Finance to turn architectural and consumption trade-offs into commercial business cases, forecasts, and savings targets
- Build pricing and consumption models and apply FinOps discipline to quantify buying scenarios and uncover savings across a fast-moving spend base
- Partner cross-functionally with Procurement Operations, Legal, and Security to ensure compliant, scalable execution
- Able to lead complex, high-spend negotiations independently and present business cases and savings outcomes to senior stakeholders and Finance leaders in a clear, concise way
- Strong executive presence, with the ability to build trust and align senior leaders (up to the executive level) on strategy and commercial trade-offs
Requirements
- Curious about AI and emerging technologies, with a track record of turning them into practical applications that improve team productivity and sourcing workflows
- Able to become an SME for sourcing and procurement systems such as Zip, and hold a Bachelor's degree in a related field
Compensation
- $128,000 - $170,000 USD
Benefits
- Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation.
- Generous and competitive benefits package
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
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Company info
- Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale.
- It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers.
Equal opportunity
- We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
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