Senior Director, Product Marketing

Datadog is looking for a Senior Director of Product Marketing to lead product marketing across Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) and Developer Tools. You will lead the teams responsible for defining how these products compete go to market and grow. As a second-line leader you will turn product strategy competitive intelligence market dynamics customer needs and product maturity into focused full-funnel marketing strategies. This is an opportunity to own Product Marketing for three of Datadogs fastest-growing product areas while helping define a new category we are entering.

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:

• Lead and develop the Product Marketing organizations responsible for APM DEM and Developer Tools coaching people managers and building high-performing teams capable of scaling with the business.
• Own portfolio-level product marketing strategy across three distinct businesses using market customer competitive funnel and financial insights to identify growth levers prioritize investments and establish clear strategies to win.
• Partner with C-level executives and senior Product Sales and Marketing leaders to shape major product narratives influence go-to-market priorities and align product positioning with Datadogs broader platform strategy.
• Set the go-to-market direction for each product line determining the right mix of launches campaigns content customer programs sales enablement and other marketing tactics based on product maturity audience business objectives and performance data.
• Build a deep understanding of complex technical products customers and markets so you can challenge assumptions strengthen positioning guide teams through technical narratives and connect product capabilities to measurable customer and business value.
• Establish a culture of operational excellence talent development and accountability across the organization including hiring leadership development organizational planning prioritization and continuous improvement of Product Marketing practices.

Who You Are:

• An experienced Product Marketing leader with significant experience leading complex technical product portfolios and operating at senior leadership level; the Senior Director career path typically reflects 12 years of related experience with a Bachelors degree 10 years with a Masters degree or equivalent experience.
• A proven second-line leader with 5 years of leadership experience and meaningful experience managing and developing people managers building organizations hiring exceptional talent and growing future leaders.
• A business-oriented leader who understands growth levers business and financial performance full-funnel marketing and how to use quantitative and qualitative data to make portfolio-level decisions.
• Deeply experienced in go-to-market strategy with the judgment to select different positioning launch campaign enablement customer and demand-generation approaches for products at different stages of maturity.
• Technically credible and able to develop a strong command of sophisticated infrastructure application developer or adjacent technologies translating complex concepts into differentiated narratives and business value.
• An influential executive communicator who can navigate ambiguity align senior stakeholders challenge constructively make clear tradeoffs and establish trusted partnerships across Product Sales Marketing and other functions.

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 & Growth:

• Generous and competitive benefits package
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
• Employee-focused best in class onboarding
• Internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program
• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture

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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