Head of Competitive Intelligence

Datadog is building a product-led Competitive Intelligence function to help inform product strategy roadmap prioritization positioning and competitive readiness.

As the Head of Competitive Intelligence you will build and lead the CompIntel function across priority competitors and adjacent market opportunities. You will translate competitor product evolution technical capabilities launches pricing value customer sentiment analyst narratives and ecosystem shifts into actionable insights for Product GTM Sales Engineering Customer Success Technical Advocacy and leadership.

In this highly technical hands-on leadership role you should understand how observability products are implemented where workflows differ what technical claims are credible and how product gaps translate into customer impact.

At Datadog we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What Youll Do:

• Own the recurring competitive radar for Datadogs priority competitor set including taxonomy source standards evidence quality and update cadence.
• Produce competitive deep dives feature-gap analyses early-warning briefs and opportunity assessments tied to specific product domains and leadership questions.
• Translate CompIntel findings into roadmap recommendations product differentiation hypotheses and Product-facing decision guidance.
• Build and maintain a central CompIntel repository with competitor profiles source notes comparison frameworks evidence logs and decision-ready briefs.
• Convert validated findings into GTM-ready handoffs for battlecards objection handling strategic deal narratives and field enablement.
• Synthesize signals from Product Engineering Sales Engineering Customer Success field teams technical communities Advocacy programs win/loss customer feedback analyst research public competitor materials and CABs.
• Partner with Product Management to frame competitive questions identify decision criteria and connect findings to roadmap and prioritization discussions.
• Partner with Technical Advocacy to incorporate practitioner customer technical-market community event and CAB signal into competitive analysis.
• Present concise credible recommendations to Product leadership and Product GTM forums.
• Maintain source transparency legal compliance ethical research practices and auditable methods across competitive research workflows.
• Lead a small high-impact team of CompIntel analysts and engineers.

Who You Are:

• You have 8 years of experience in competitive intelligence technical product strategy product management market intelligence strategic technical research or related enterprise software work.
• You have strong technical fluency in one or more of the following areas: observability cloud infrastructure security developer tooling distributed systems or enterprise SaaS platforms.
• You are comfortable reading technical documentation changelogs release notes architecture diagrams product announcements and public competitor materials.
• You can distinguish credible technical differentiation from surface-level claims.
• You can synthesize technical commercial customer and market evidence into clear recommendations.
• You have strong executive writing skills and can produce concise memos structured briefs comparison frameworks and leadership-ready recommendations.
• You can influence Product Engineering Marketing Sales Engineering Sales Customer Success and leadership stakeholders without direct authority.
• You are comfortable working in ambiguous environments where the function taxonomy operating cadence and stakeholder model need to be built from the ground up.
• You understand legal ethical and compliance considerations in competitive intelligence gathering.

Bonus Points:

• Experience in observability cloud infrastructure security developer tooling platform engineering or technical enterprise SaaS.
• Experience supporting Product Management or product strategy through technical analysis roadmap inputs customer evidence or market intelligence.
• Experience building a competitive intelligence program research repository competitor taxonomy or recurring market-monitoring process.
• Familiarity with SCIP ethics guidance evidence governance source transparency and legally approved research methods.
• Experience translating technical findings into GTM-ready enablement materials without overstating claims.

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. Thats okay. If youre passionate about technology and want to grow your skills we encourage you to apply.

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development product training and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture and the ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks our internal panel discussions
• Free global mental 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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