Manager II, Developer Advocacy

Developer Advocates at Datadog are engineers who share their expertise with technical practitioners help customers tell their stories and represent the perspectives of our community inside Datadog.

As a Manager II on the Advocacy team you will lead our Community Advocacy functions. You will manage a team of Developer Advocates responsible for global programs such as Datadog Ambassadors Champions and User Groups as well as opportunities for customer engineers to share their expertise through technical writing public speaking and other community contributions.


Across these interconnected programs your team will enable customer engineers to contribute technical knowledge lead communities and turn their experiences into compelling content and conference talks for Datadog and third-party channels. This role combines people leadership program strategy technical judgment and cross-functional influence to amplify authentic customer voices deepen understanding of Datadog and its products and foster a thriving community of practitioners.

What Youll Do:

• Lead and develop a team of Developer Advocates setting clear expectations guiding priorities coaching performance supporting career growth and fostering an inclusive high-performing culture
• Own the strategy goals and roadmap for Community Advocacy translating broader Advocacy and company priorities into focused programs and measurable outcomes
• Guide the continued development of our Ambassador Champion and User Group programs creating clear contributor journeys expectations enablement recognition and opportunities for customer engineers to increase their impact
• Build repeatable systems that enable customer engineers to contribute technical knowledge create content share best practices and serve as trusted leaders within their communities
• Develop a strong pipeline of customer stories by identifying compelling practitioners and helping them shape authentic technically credible narratives
• Oversee the support co-development and coaching of conference talks by customer engineersfrom identifying an idea and developing an abstract through content review rehearsal and deliveryfor Datadog events including our flagship user conference DASH as well as third-party industry conferences
• Establish measures of success for Community Advocacy using qualitative and quantitative insights to evaluate program health contributor engagement content quality audience impact and customer outcomes
• Partner closely with Product Engineering Marketing Events Customer Success and regional teams to align priorities identify opportunities and scale customer participation across Datadog initiatives
• Ensure insights from Ambassadors Champions User Group participants speakers and other community members are shared with the appropriate teams inside Datadog strengthening the connection between our customers and our products
• Balance strategic leadership with selective hands-on contribution including coaching speakers reviewing technical content participating in community programs and representing Datadog when appropriate

Who You Are:

• You are an experienced people manager who has led autonomous technical professionals coached performance developed talent and translated complex goals into achievable plans
• You have experience defining and delivering successful developer advocacy developer relations technical community or a related functions
• You have built or meaningfully contributed to programs that enable external practitioners to participate contribute create content or lead communities at scale
• You have experience helping technical practitioners develop and communicate their stories including coaching conference speakers or co-developing technically credible talks and content
• You are a former software developer SRE or other technical practitioneror have equivalent technical depthwith the judgment needed to assess technical accuracy and coach effective technical narratives
• You are a thoughtful cross-functional leader who can build alignment make prioritization decisions and influence partners across Product Engineering Marketing Events and customer-facing organizations
• You use both data and community insight to evaluate program effectiveness identify opportunities and make decisions about where the team should invest
• You understand how to build trust with technical communities and value authentic practitioner voices over purely promotional messaging
• You are comfortable operating through ambiguity establishing structure where needed and evolving programs as Datadogs products customers and technical audiences grow

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.

Benefits and Growth:

• 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 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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