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Director, Product Management - Infrastructure Monitoring

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Posted 6 May 2026
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About the Role

<p>The Infrastructure Monitoring organization at Datadog is responsible for delivering the products that give engineering teams complete visibility into the health and performance of their infrastructure — from hosts and containers to cloud-native and hybrid environments. We are looking for a Director of Product Management to lead and shape the roadmap and delivery of our Infrastructure Monitoring product capabilities at Datadog in the AI era.</p> <p><br>In this role, you will bring a combination of technical expertise, product management experience, and a deep understanding of infrastructure and observability to help Datadog grow it’s leadership position in infrastructure monitoring. You will lead a team of product managers and collaborate with senior leadership in product, engineering and design.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em>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.<br><br><br></em><strong>What You'll Do:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Own the vision and strategy</strong> for Infrastructure Monitoring products, ensuring alignment with overall company goals and customer needs. This will include managing a subset of the infrastructure product portfolio..</li> <li><strong>Identify new opportunities</strong> for infrastructure product innovation and drive them from concept to execution, ensuring they have a measurable impact on customers and the business.</li> <li><strong>Define product roadmaps</strong> and manage the prioritization of features and initiatives to ensure the team's efforts are aligned with business goals.</li> <li><strong>Drive AI-powered product innovation</strong> by identifying and embedding AI capabilities into the infrastructure monitoring product suite and support customers transformation with AI</li> <li><strong>Work closely with customers and stakeholders</strong> to deeply understand their pain points, ensuring that infrastructure monitoring solutions are delivering tangible value and solving real-world problems.</li> <li><strong>Collaborate with cross-functional teams</strong> including engineering, design, data science, marketing, and sales to deliver infrastructure product solutions that meet customer needs and business objectives.</li> <li><strong>Lead and mentor a team</strong> of product managers, helping them grow and advance their careers while ensuring the delivery of high-quality, customer-impactful features.&nbsp;</li> <li><strong>Promote a product-first mindset</strong> across the organization, ensuring that the user experience and business value are central to every product decision.</li> <li><strong>Foster a culture of innovation and excellence</strong> in infrastructure product development, ensuring that Datadog remains the leader in infrastructure observability.<br><br></li> </ul> <p><strong>Who You Are:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Experience</strong>: You have proven experience in B2B SaaS product management, with a track record of successfully leading the development and delivery of AI-driven products and solutions.</li> <li><strong>Domain expertise</strong>: Deep understanding of infrastructure, cloud platforms, DevOps, or observability — you can engage credibly with customers, engineers, and architects on technical topics including cloud-native and AI architectures, Kubernetes, compute/storage/networking, and distributed systems</li> <li><strong>Proven leadership</strong>: Track record of building and developing high-performing PM teams; experience managing both ICs and senior PMs</li> <li><strong>Strategic and execution-oriented</strong>: Ability to set a long-term product vision while driving rigorous near-term execution across a complex, multi-team product area</li> <li><strong>Customer obsessed</strong>: You have strong instincts for understanding customer pain and translating it into product strategy that creates real value</li> <li><strong>Data-driven</strong>: Comfortable defining KPIs, analyzing product usage, running experiments, and making prioritization decisions under uncertainty</li> <li><strong>Strong communicator</strong>: Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to influence senior engineering stakeholders and align cross-functional teams — and present confidently to executives and customers</li&gt

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