Datadog
Senior Product Manager - Feature Flagging
New York, New York, USA · Senior
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About the role
- At Datadog, we're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale, enabling seamless collaboration and problem-solving among Dev, Ops, and Security teams globally for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty,
- and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.
Responsibilities
- Design flagging workflows for a world where agents write and merge code, find where today's flag tooling slows agentic development down, and set the bar for what a modern, AI-native flagging platform looks like
- Own what good documentation and developer experience looks like for this product, and find and fix the enablement gaps across a large sales org
Requirements
- You have +5 years of experience working closely with engineering teams, ideally as an engineer yourself, with a track record of owning a product area end to end
- You have +2 years writing code that shipped to production through a full release cycle, and know what to expect from CI/CD, flagging, and observability tools because you've used them
- You have real technical understanding of software architecture - why teams trade off server vs. client compute, and how browser and native apps differ
- You have excellent written and verbal communication skills: you read and listen fast, write and speak clearly, and can talk to engineers as a peer
- You have B2B experience - you've personally helped close deals, you know what makes developer docs and devex good, and you can diagnose and fix enablement problems across a large sales team
Nice to have
- We operate at high scale, enabling seamless collaboration and problem-solving among Dev, Ops, and Security teams globally for tens of thousands of companies.
- Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.
- Feature flags used to be simple on/off switches.
- That's changing fast.
- Flags are becoming a control plane:
- You will set direction for a critical area of the roadmap, work closely with the observability, RUM, and APM teams, and report directly to the Director of Product leading this team.
Skills
- You are based in New York City and able to work from our office 3 days a week
- you read and listen fast, write and speak clearly, and can talk to engineers as a peer
- Bonus: prior experience with observability tooling, experimentation platforms, or distributed systems
- Datadog values people from all walks of life.
- That's okay.
- Benefits & Growth:
- 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+
Compensation
- $192,000 - $240,000 USD
Benefits
- Competitive global benefits
- Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation.
- Own this product area from vision through GTM execution, and communicate progress and strategy to senior leadership and executives
- Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Company info
- It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers.
- 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.
Equal opportunity
- Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
- This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.
Visa & Work Authorization
- t opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics
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